The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,200 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

PennSound
A project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is an online poetry archive and website featuring free audio recordings of poets reading their work, podcasts about poetry and a selection of readings of classics, featuring readings from the works of Poe, Milton, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Langland and others. This is a rich resource that rewards exploration. Amongst its treasures is the Ezra Pound archive, which spans the Harvard Vocarium readings, made in 1939, to recordings made in 1972, the year of the poet’s death. The readings are accompanied by Richard Sieburth’s essay and listener’s guide The Sound of Pound.

The Pod Delusion
A weekly news magazine radio programme and podcast which takes a look at things from ‘a secular, rationalist, skeptical, somewhat lefty-liberal, sort of perspective’. Covers politics, science, religion, social networking, ethics, medicine and anything else which it considers germane to its free-thinking approach, with the aim of producing a superficially light-hearted but essentially serious and thought-provoking series of programmes aimed at the intelligent general listener.

Thames Discovery Programme
Hosted by Museum of London Archaeology, in partnership with Museum of London, English Heritage and the UCL Institute of Archaeology, this resource aims to create awareness of its work on the foreshore of the Thames and stimulate interest in the archaeology and history of the river. A series of informative and well-made videos covers a range of significant sites, including footage of a dig on the shore near Tower of London and an intriguing film called Murder on the Foreshore? which shows what happened following the discovery of a human skull at low tide in the mud near the Isle of Dogs.

Twig Science
Researched and created by a team of academics, producers and scientists, this award-winning site is a resource aimed at teachers at KS2, KS3 and GCSE, and features 600 three-minute films on science, divided into the categories of Physics, Biology, Earth Science and Chemistry. The films are also categorised into Core Films – which highlight the key curriculum learning points of a topic – and Context Films which encourage cross-curricular learning. A number of the films are free to view, while the rest are available by subscription. The site features interactive quizzes and extension materials for students and teachers and is easy to navigate via the Mindmap navigation tool, which allows for easy and intuitive browsing.

Virtual Math Museum
This website is the project of the 3DXM Consortium, an international group of mathematicians who have used the software 3D-XplorMath to create a gallery of surfaces and shapes in two and three dimensions. These include plane curves, fractals, space curves, spherical surfaces, polyhedra, non-orientable surfaces such as the Moebius Strip and Klein Bottle, conformal maps and algebraic curves. There are also notes in PDF format, examples of mathematical art and a number of moving image files, showing, for example, the development of fractal curves such as Koch’s Snowflake Curve and the Mandelbrot Set