Oxford DNB podcast

Welcome to the Oxford DNB podcast, chosen by iTunes as one of the best new podcasts of 2007. From this page you can listen to a selection of Oxford DNB biographies, either by downloading the individual life or by subscribing to our fortnightly podcast.

We began the series in January 2007 and add a new biography every fortnight: find out who's featured so far.

Current podcast: Alice Liddell

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  If you have iTunes: subscribe on the iTunes page for this podcast

  On any reader: use its subscribe feature to add our URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/podcast.xml

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• Or download individual biographies: find out what's available.

• We've also produced a map: click here to see if we have recorded the biography of anyone from your area.

More about the Oxford DNB podcast

A podcast is like a series on the radio, except it is broadcast through the internet, and you can listen to the episodes whenever you like, because your computer can automatically record each episode for you.

Before you start, you'll need to download a feed reader. (If you already subscribe to our web feed you already have a reader.) For podcasts, iTunes and Juice are both popular and free. (Sorry, we can't recommend or advise on readers.)

• Then, use your reader's Subscribe function (or this link in iTunes) to add our feed's URL:
  
  
  • Either by copying and pasting it into your reader: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/podcast.xml.
  
  
  
  • Or by navigating to the page and then adding it: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/podcast.xml

Once you've subscribed, you'll receive each biography as an mp3 file, for you to listen to on your computer or transfer to your ipod or mp3 player.

• Cancelling a podcast that you no longer want to listen to is even easier. Simply select the feed in your reader and use the unsubscribe function.

• If you're bemused, the BBC has a friendly introduction to podcasts.

You can also download the biographies separately. Every biography available is listed below. Simply click on the link to listen immediately, or save to your computer (usually by clicking with the right-hand mouse button, and choosing to save) so that you can listen later, or copy the file to your mp3 player.

Don't forget: you can read these and 56,000 other biographies — for free and at home — via nearly all UK public libraries and colleges and universities worldwide.

• Alice Liddell, prototype of the character Alice >listen to or download this biography
• John Simpson Kirkpatrick, war hero >listen to or download this biography
• John Bull, fictitious epitomist of Englishness and British imperialism >listen to or download this biography
• Anne Darwin, daughter of Charles Darwin >listen to or download this biography
• Eric Thompson, actor and theatre director >listen to or download this biography
• Harold Davidson, Church of England clergyman and circus performer >listen to or download this biography
• Elizabeth Pepys, wife of Samuel Pepys >listen to or download this biography
• Mills and Boon, publishers >listen to or download this biography
• The Busby Babes, footballers >listen to or download this biography
• Bogo de Clare, churchman and figure of scandal >listen to or download this biography
• Alistair Cooke, broadcaster and writer >listen to or download this biography
• Roger Hargreaves, copywriter and children's author >listen to or download this biography
• Spring-Heeled Jack, mystery assailant >listen to or download this biography
• Helene Hanff, writer and Anglophile in the USA >listen to or download this biography
• The Unknown Warrior >listen to or download this biography
• Lola Montez, adventuress >listen to or download this biography
• Aldwyn Roberts, calypso singer >listen to or download this biography
• Lindow Man, the Body in the Bog >listen to or download this biography
• Jacqueline Du Pré, cellist >listen to or download this biography
• Pasqua Rosee, coffee house keeper >listen to or download this biography
• Edith Cavell, nurse and war heroine >listen to or download this biography
• Jimi Hendrix, rock musician >listen to or download this biography
• Charles Macintosh, inventor of mackintosh waterproof fabrics >listen to or download this biography
• Fred Perry, tennis player >listen to or download this biography
• Boudicca, queen of the Iceni >listen to or download this biography
• John Travers Cornwell, naval hero >listen to or download this biography
• George Harrison, musician and composer >listen to or download this biography
• Madame Tussaud, founder of a wax exhibition >listen to or download this biography
• Pocahontas, Algonquian Indian princess >listen to or download this biography
• Thomas Parr, centenarian >listen to or download this biography
• Sidney Bloom, restaurateur >listen to or download this biography
• Fanny Coker, freed slave >listen to or download this biography
• Percy Shaw, inventor >listen to or download this biography
• Princess Caraboo, impostor >listen to or download this biography
• Deen Mahomed, curry house founder >listen to or download this biography
• Dr Crippen, murderer >listen to or download this biography
• Amy Johnson, aviator >listen to or download this biography
• Bunny Roger, couturier and socialite >listen to or download this biography
• Barbara Cartland, romantic novelist> listen to or download this biography
• Forrest Mars, the man behind the Mars Bar> listen to or download this biography
• Bobby Moore, footballer> listen to or download this biography
• Charles Isham, inventor of the garden gnome > listen to or download this biography
• Lotte Berk, dancer and fitness trainer > listen to or download this biography
• Maurice Gibb, of the Bee Gees > listen to or download this biography
• Thora Hird, actress > listen to or download this biography
• Alan May, physicist and spy > listen to or download this biography
• Barry Sheene, racing motorcyclist > listen to or download this biography
• Denis Thatcher, prime ministerial consort > listen to or download this biography
• Dee Wells, journalist > listen to or download this biography

Coming soon … Quantum of Solace …

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