The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)

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The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford is the largest university library system in the United Kingdom. It includes the principal University library - the Bodleian Library - which has been a legal deposit library for 400 years; as well as 28 other libraries across Oxford including major research libraries and faculty, department and institute libraries. Together, the Libraries hold more than 12 million printed items, over 80,000 e-journals and outstanding special collections including rare books and manuscripts, classical papyri, maps, music, art and printed ephemera. Members of the public can explore the collections via the Bodleian’s online image portal at digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk or by visiting the exhibition galleries in the Bodleian's Weston Library. For more information, visit www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Andrew Smith MP pays tribute to Jim Callaghan	Member of Parliament for Oxford East, Andrew Smith gives his view of Jim Callaghan.	Andrew Smith	23 April, 2013
Michael Callaghan remembers his father Jim Callaghan	Jim Callaghan's son Michael gives a talk about his memories of his fathers political life.	Michael Callaghan	23 April, 2013
Margaret Jay, Baroness Jay of Paddington remembers her father, Jim Callaghan	The daughter of Jim Callaghan, Margaret Jay, gives the closing speech for the event.	Margaret Jay	23 April, 2013
Lord Owen remembers Jim Callaghan	British politician Lord Owen talks about his experiences of Jim Callaghan.	David Owen	23 April, 2013
Lord Morgan remembers Jim Callaghan	Historian and author Lord Morgan speaks about the Jim Callaghan papers deposited in the Bodleian.	Kenneth Morgan	23 April, 2013
Lord Donoughue remembers Jim Callaghan	British politician, businessman and author Baron Donoughue of Ashton speaks about his view as special advisor to Jim Callaghan.	Bernard Donoughue	23 April, 2013
Xu Bing: The Kind of Artist I Am	Chinese Artist Xu Bing gives a talk on the subject of his art and the kind of artist he is.	Xu Bing	22 April, 2013
Marconi and the Broadcasting Option: Annual Byrne-Bussey Marconi Lecture	Held on Marconi day, 20th April, Gabriele Balbi (University of Lugano) gives a talk about Marconi, co-inventor of the radio.	Gabriele Balbi	22 April, 2013
Roy Strong talks to Brian Sewell: Self-portrait as a Young Man	Art critic Brian Sewell talks to Sir Roy Strong as part of the Times Literary Festival 2013.	Brian Sewell, Roy Strong	15 April, 2013
Image Matching on Printed Images in Bodleian Collections	Giles Bergel and Andrew Zisserman from the Broadside Ballad Connections project demonstrate new image matching software that allows researchers to track images across early forms of printed literature. Visit http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/.	Giles Bergel, Andrew Zisserman, Relja Arandjelovic	13 December, 2012
Dickens' Railways	Professor Stphen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on Charles Dickens' literature.	Stephen Gill	26 October, 2012
Jane Austen's Manuscripts Explored	Professor Kathyrn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks around the manuscripts of Jane Austen, what we can learn from them about her family life but also her writing style and techniques.	Kathryn Sutherland	8 June, 2012
The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising	Professor Kathryn Sutherland from the University of Oxford talks about some of Jane Austen's manuscripts from the novel 'The Watsons' and what we can learn about her from these.	Kathryn Sutherland	8 June, 2012
Wireless Communications during the Titanic Disaster	Michael Hughes (Bodleian Libraries) gives a talk about the final wireless communications from the Titanic.	Michael Hughes	22 May, 2012
The Bodleian Library and the Scientific Revolution	Dr Poole presents the Bodleian and the seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution in terms of its contributions to Oxford and to British science in the period.	William Poole	8 May, 2012
Shakespeare and Medieval Romance	Professor Helen Cooper, University of Cambridge, speaks about the continuities between the Romance of the middle ages and Shakespeare's plays. She looks at textual features from his plays (including King Lear) which may indicate his influences.	Helen Cooper	12 April, 2012
The Birth of Romance in England	Dr Laura Ashe delivers a lecture on the birth of romance in England in the 12th Century, part of a series of lectures to accompany The Romance of the Middle Ages exhibition at the Bodleian Library.	Laura Ashe	23 February, 2012
The Role of Open Access in Maximising The Impact of Biomedical Research	Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, gives a lecture on scholarship, publishing and the dissemination of research designed to stimulate debate in Oxford on the issues surrounding changes in scholarly communications.	Sir Mark Walport	26 April, 2011
Brought to Book: Book History and the Idea of Literature	Professor Paul Eggert, University of New South Wales, gives the 17th Annual D.F. McKenzie lecture on the subject of books and gives a case study of Henry Lawson, Australian author of Where the Billy Boils.	Paul Eggert	9 March, 2011
Mary Shelley - Journal of Sorrow	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In the months immediately following Shelley's death Mary lived at Albaro on the outskirts of Genoa. Her only regular companions were her young son, Percy Florence, and the journal she began on 2 October 1822.	Nouran Koriem	2 December, 2010
William Godwin- Letter to Mary Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This is the letter Godwin wrote to Mary after hearing of Shelley's death.	Hoare Nairne	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Letter to Mary Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Everybody is in despair and every thing in confusion' writes Shelley in his last letter to Mary. He was in Pisa to discuss a new journal, The Liberal, with Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Adonais. An Elegy on the Death of John Keats	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. This great elegy was prompted by the news of the death of John Keats in Rome, and by Shelley's belief that Keats's illness was caused by the hostile notices his work had been given in the Quarterly Review.	Jordan Saxby	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Opening lines of 'The Triumph of Life'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley worked on 'The Triumph of Life', a dark and visionary poem, while living at the Villa Magni.	Hoare Nairne	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dedication fair copy of 'With a guitar. To Jane'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley presented this light-hearted poem, copied out in his best hand, with the guitar he gave to Jane Williams in 1822.	Jordan Saxby	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Fair copy of Ode to the West Wind	Part of the Shelly's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley's best-known poem was written in Florence in late 1819.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Draft of 'Ozymandias'	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. 'Ozymandias' is the Greek name for Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for sixty-seven years from 1279 to 1213 BC.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Mary Shelley (with Percy Bysshe Shelley) - Draft of Frankenstein	Mary Shelley drafted Frankenstein in two tall notebooks. The first notebook was probably purchased in Geneva, the second several months later in England.	Christopher Adams	2 December, 2010
Harriet Shelley - Letter to Eliza Westbrook, Shelley and her parents	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Harriet Shelley drowned herself in December 1816, aged twenty-one. Her body was recovered from the Serpentine on 10 December, and an inquest into the death of one 'Harriet Smith' was held the following day.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
Mary Shelley - Letter to Percy Bysshe Shelley	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary arrived back in London to face the almost universal disapproval of family and friends, and severe money problems.	Nouran Koriem	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley - Joint journal entry	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Shelley and Mary eloped at 4.15 am on 28 July 1814, accompanied by Mary's step-sister Jane Clairmont.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Letter to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Using false names, Shelley sent copies of The Necessity of the Atheism to 'men of thought and learning', including bishops and clergymen.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
William Godwin: Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Godwin's memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft has been called the first modern biography. At the time, however, its frankness and emotional candour provoked general outrage.	Henry Cockburn	2 December, 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft Three notes to William Godwin	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. Even after their marriage Godwin and Wollstonecraft preferred to live independently during the day, and communicate by correspondence.	Hannah Morrell	2 December, 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Part of the Shelley's Ghost Exhibition. In her most famous work Mary Wollstonecraft argued that if women were educated in the same way as men they would perform as well.	Annabell James	2 December, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places Discussion The Weirdstone of Brisingamen	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds and Robert Powell take part in a discussion on the subject of pieces of places, objects and artefacts found and what they mean for writing fiction and for archeology in general.	Alan Garner, Mark Edmonds, Robert Powell	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 Pieces of Places - Reading of Alan Garner's Work	The 50th anniversary of the publication of Alan Garner's first novel, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen. A talk examining the importance of place in Alan Garner's work. Robert Powell gives a reading of The Stone Book, from The Stone Book Quartet.	Robert Powell, Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
Oxford Literary Festival 2010 By Seven Firs and Goldenstone - An account of the Legend of Alderley	Alan Garner gives an illustrated lecture on the Legend of Alderley. This version of the myth of the Sleeping Hero is rooted to places on Alderley Edge in Cheshire, where Alan Garner grew up.	Alan Garner	21 June, 2010
Pre-1500 Printed Books	The earliest printers spread from Mainz in Germany where Gutenberg first had his printing house to Venice, Rome, Paris, and the Netherlands. Examples from all of these centres of 15th-century printing are found in Bodleian collections.	Paul Nash	5 March, 2010
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (short)	Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
BODcast: P.D. James in conversation with Colin Dexter (long)	Special footage celebrating the launch of Talking about Detective Fiction by PD James, the latest Bodleian Library publication. PD James is donating all royalties from the hardback edition to the Bodleian and hopes it will encourage further philanthropy.	P. D. James, Colin Dexter	30 September, 2009
Magna Carta and Wind In The Willows	A short history of how the Bodleian library stores original copies of the Magna Carta and the original Wind in the Willows letters.	Bodleian Library	11 September, 2008
Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'	Reading at the 'Archipelago Poetry Evening'.	Bernard O'Donoghue	30 April, 2008
The Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'	Reading from his translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Wanderer'.	Greg Delanty	30 April, 2008
A poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian)	An introduction and excerpts from a poem by Osip Mandelshtam (read in Russian).	Andrew Kahn	30 April, 2008
Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic	Reading of a poem in Scottish Gaelic.	Mark Williams	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Flood'	Reading from his poem 'Flood'.	Paul Abbot	30 April, 2008
Reading from his poem 'Muck'	Reading from his poem 'Muck'.	Mick Imlah	30 April, 2008
Paradise Lost Book One: Milton's ambitions	Milton's ambitions as a poet.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008
Paradise Lost Book Four	Satan first spies Adam and Eve.	Sam Dastor	29 April, 2008

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