Tolkien at Oxford: free podcasts, also free choral music!

You may or may not know that iTunes has launched a... thing they call iTunes University, where universities offer podcasts of lectures, etc, for free download. I was poking about, and discovered that as well as, e.g. Cambridge offering videos on history by Simon Schama and David Starkey, the Oxford section has two podcasts on Tolkien at Oxford, and Tolkien and languages. No idea what they're like, as I haven't listened yet, but it might be worth a look. You can also find such goodies as someone reading Beowulf aloud, or a recording of a first year tutorial from Mansfield on Old English grammar. Even as an Old Anglophile (?) I find it hard to understand why you would want the latter, but perhaps true grammarians will be thrilled by the prospect (and, I suppose, if you're considering Oxford, it could be interesting).

You should be able to find the Tolkien stuff by searching on Tolkien Oxford.

Of course, it's all basically advertising, but -

OOOH - free downloads of music from St Johns Cambridge! Including Byrd! Run, don't walk!

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( Beware the ramblings! )