Mr Verdant Green - is a wonderfully amusing and engaging trilogy, recounting the escapades of a naive student thrown into university life amongst the hallowed halls of Oxford c.1850.

Widely regarded as a comic masterpiece of its time (it sold over 200,000 copies) it brings to mind the writing of Jerome K Jerome or an adventure PG Wodehouse might have penned for a slightly more academic Bertie Wooster.

All three volumes are evocatively narrated by Philip Bird, an actor who has appeared in the West End and Shakespeare's Globe as well as countless television programmes.

Click to download an MP3 sample - Chapter 10.

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