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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts) — 121 episodes

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1

We Rise (Together): Taking and Making Space for BIPOC Book Arts Creatives, Cultures, and Histories

2

The Dancing Master in Context: Playford’s publishing and music-making in 17th century England

3

A dance band for Playford?

4

Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges

5

Body of evidence

6

Reynard the Fox

7

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

8

The Future of the Monograph: An Open Access Forum

9

Making Third Stream Books in the Post-digital Age

10

Researching the Impeachment and Trial of Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford

11

A life in politics: Lord Heseltine in conversation with Lord Hennessy

12

Research business and the shortwave beam: Marconi and the uses of wireless in postwar years

13

Marconi's early Latin projects over the South-Atlantic

14

Performing Shakespeare: then and now

15

Shakespeare and the Victorians

16

Modelos cursivos y aprendizaje de la escritura en la Corona de Castilla en el siglo XV (in Spanish)

17

Scritture umanistiche elementari (in Italian)

18

Hands turned to stone: some unconventional attempts at inscriptional lettering

19

Introduction to the unskilled scribe

20

Elementary cursive handwriting in English and Scottish Charters, 1150-1250

21

Life, death and astrology in Shakespeare's England

22

Donne to Death

23

Everyday death in Shakespeare's England

24

The Magic of Shakespeare

25

Books for mind and community in 12th-century Oxford and Cirencester

26

1594: Shakespeare's most important year

27

200 years of fun and games

28

Malone's Chronologizing of Aubrey's Lives (putt in writing... tumultuarily)

29

Distinguishing Marks of Genius

30

Pieces of the jigsaw: history through the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

31

The Savile Library

32

Painted by numbers: decoding Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca colour code

33

Mr Douce steps into the nursery and lingers...

34

Beauty and the Victorians

35

Writing The Hobbit: a perilous quest

36

New Sappho and new libraries

37

Four centuries of Chinese book collecting

38

The Trade in Printed Books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western World

39

Abridging Histories: Capt. James Cook and the Voyages of Reading (1784-)

40

Naming Names: Underwriting Patronage in Tonson's Caesar (1712)

41

Singular Multiples: Comprehending the General Evening Post (1754-86)

42

Proliferating Images: Diagrams of the Slave Ship Brookes (1789)

43

True Colours: A Natural History of Louis Renard's Poissons (1719)

44

Engraved Throughout: Pine's Horace (1733) as a Bibliographical Object

45

Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences

46

The Lives of Harold Macmillan and Roy Jenkins

47

Conscription and Conscientious Objection

48

The Problem with Propaganda

49

The Meaning of 1914

50

Self-publishing in 18th-century Paris and London

51

How to make your own eyeglasses for about one pound: an Oxford technology created to benefit the developing World

52

Lord Nuffield's Legacy to Oxford

53

Oxford Medical Firsts: Celebrating 800 Years of Oxford Medicine.

54

Embodying song in Early Modern England

55

Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature

56

Stoicism and its Legacy

57

Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children

58

Richard Wagner: 200 Today

59

The Hobbit at the Bodleian: World Book Day 2010

60

Dr Lawrence Goldman introduces the commemoration, 'Jim Callaghan Remembered'

61

Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan

62

Michael Callaghan remembers his father Jim Callaghan

63

Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington remembers her father, Jim Callaghan

64

Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan

65

Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan

66

Lord Donoughue remembers Jim Callaghan

67

Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am

68

Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture

69

Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man

70

Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections

71

Dickens' Railways

72

Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored

73

The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising

74

Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster

75

The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution

76

Shakespeare and Medieval Romance

77

The Birth of Romance in England

78

The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research

79

Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature

80

Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow

81

William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley

82

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley

83

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

84

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'

85

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'

86

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind

87

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'

88

Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein

89

Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents

90

Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley

91

Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry

92

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin

93

William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman

94

Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin

95

Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

96

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

97

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work

98

Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley

99

Pre-1500 Printed Books

100

BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)

101

BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)

102

Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows

103

Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'

104

The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'

105

A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian)

106

Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic

107

Reading from his poem 'Flood'

108

Reading from his poem 'Muck'

109

Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions

110

Paradise Lost Book Four

111

Paradise Lost Book One: Satan's first speech

112

Samson Agonistes

113

Aeropagitica

114

Magna Carta at Oxford

115

The origins of 'Archipelago'

116

Introduction to the Archipelago Poetry Evening

117

Seamus Heaney reading two contributions

118

Citizen Milton Exhibition Talk

119

The Creation as told in the Qu'ran

120

The Creation as told in the Bible

121

The Creation as told in the Torah