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Literature Cambridge has a new project: The Archive. A unique audio collection, it offers more than 25 hours of audio lectures recorded live online and available with a monthly or annual subscription.

About the lectures

The recordings focus on Virginia Woolf and her contemporaries:

The recordings also cover 19th-century writers, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and more. And lectures often include additional notes and photographs subscribers can explore.

Literature Cambridge plans to expand and rotate the selection of topics at the end of this year, adding more audio lectures from its collection, with a special emphasis on Victorian writers.

About the lecturers

Lecturers are world-class academics with deep insight into their subjects. Most are current or past members of the University of Cambridge.

How to subscribe

You can subscribe to The Archive for £12 per month or £130 per year. All prices include VAT at 20 percent. A subscription provides access to all the audio recordings in The Archive for the duration of the subscription.

Listen to a preview

Listen to an excerpt from a lecture on Pride and Prejudice by Alison Hennegan, retired fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.

Alison Hennegan on Pride and Prejudice – Lecture Preview by Literature Cambridge

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Famous Writers Dramatic Company has produced a 92-minute audio adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway that is available free online.

Its cast of six is led by Abigail Thaw, Robert Bathurst, Deborah Findlay and Tim McInnerny.

Please note that it is an adaptation, going from a 63,000 word novel to a 19,500 word adaptation. Thus, it does not begin with the famous first line of the novel but jumps into Clarissa’s walk through Westminster and uses several actresses to play the lead.

Katie Mitchell’s recent London stage production of Rebecca Watson’s Little Scratch inspired the work.

“I know the BBC has done several radio adaptations of the novel, but as far I know Mrs Dalloway has never been done like this and I am very happy with how it has turned out,” explained James Garner, who notified Blogging Woolf of the production, his company’s second.

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Got time for a short broadcast with a Virginia Woolf connection? Yesterday’s BBC Radio 4 Short Works fits the bill and is available online.

“Dance of the Wild,” a story by Amanthi Harris, is set in contemporary Alpujarras in Spain. That’s where Gerald Brenan spent his summers and where Virginia Woolf visited him. The story focuses on a young woman who “sees” and “hears” Woolf talking to herself about creating Mrs. Dalloway.

They seem very real here, don’t they? – “Dance of the Wild”

The Woolf character’s words are based on Woolf’s diary and the manuscripts of the novel held in the British Library and the New York Public Library.

This news comes from the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. The 14-minute reading, which will be available online for more than one year, can be found on BBC Sounds.

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