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  1. Shakespeare’s Memory (2016 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Science

    Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and...

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  2. John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016)

    aka: John Berger or the Art of Looking

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Out of distribution

    Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.

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  3. Shedding Light on Lenses (2013)

    Producer
    Spiros Liacos
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    This programme uses visuals and animations to explain how convex and concave lenses produce images in a wide variety of situations. After a quick recap on refraction, presenter Spiros Liacos shows how...

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  4. Meet Your Brain (3 Parts) (2012)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology

    In the 2011 series of Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, experimental psychologist Professor Bruce Hood delivers three, 60-minute lectures on the human brain. In the last few years, science has started to...

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  5. Shedding Light on: Reflection (2012)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Join science teacher Spiro Liacos as he delves into every aspect of reflection, mirrors and the virtual-3D mirror world they create. What is reflection? How do mirrors reflect light differently to everything...

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  6. Eyewitness (2010)

    Producer
    Kate Shiers-Ghellere; Peter Leonard
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    A groundbreaking three-part series, made by the OU in collaboration with Greater Manchester Police, explores the fallibility of human memory in witness testimony, by creating eyewitnesses and looking at real...

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  7. Secret Powers of Time, The (2010)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Audio and video recordings of a lecture given on 25 March 2010 at RSA (the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) by Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at...

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  8. Quirkology (2010)

    Director
    Richard Wiseman
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC)

    Six short videos illustrating some of the unusual aspects of human behaviour discussed by Professor Richard Wiseman in his book Quirkology. The videos cover the colour-changing card trick (illustrating a...

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  9. Tom’s Story (2010)

    Subject
    Education; Psychology

    Until the age of 14, Tom’s teachers had labelled him a ‘slow learner’ due to his inability to read, despite eye tests revealing his vision was normal. Four years ago he was diagnosed as having...

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  10. Making Sense of Sensory Information (2009)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 40 minutes), $250.00

    For thousands of years, humans have asked if we perceive the world accurately through our senses. Because seeing is so important for our functioning in the world, efforts to understand how perceptions are...

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