University of Oxford: Free Podcasts

You don’t need to fly to the United Kingdom toattend lectures at Oxford. A huge variety of lecturesis available on the university’s website. Click on Departments &Colleges (Step 1) and select the field you are interested in and a long list ofspeeches will be displayed.

In one of the lectures, Chaucer, which is particularly interesting for the ones who want to go further on English language and literature, Professor Daniel Wakelin discusses the work of the English poet Chaucer and explains how the poet was one of the first to use every day spoken English as a literary language in the 14th Century.

nd the select Chaucer from the list (Step 3).

Access the podcasts here: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/


by Denise Emerici