For teachers: ODNB biography podcast in the classroom

Below you’ll find a selection of episodes from the archive of our free biography podcast. The podcast offers audio versions of biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Each episodes lasts between 10 and 25 minutes and offers a concise, balanced introduction to the life and work of a well-known figure from British history: from Wilfred Owen to Olaudah Equiano, Captain Scott to Angela Carter. Click on a portrait to listen, or Browse the 180+ episodes in the archive.

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Oxford DNB: who would you like to meet?

• free 30-day trial subscriptions are available for schools and colleges.
• the Oxford DNB online is freely available via public libraries across the UK. Libraries offer ‘remote access’ allowing members to log-on to the complete dictionary, for free, from home (or any other computer) twenty-four hours a day.
• as well as 58,500 life stories, the ODNB offers a free, twice monthly biography podcast with over 175 life stories now available.
• you can also sign up for a Life of the Day: a topical biography delivered to your inbox.
• or follow us on Twitter for people in the news

> Read the Oxford DNB, free and at home, using your library's subscription

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