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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048s3my/episodes/downloads
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- Bio-Medical
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- Botany
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Presented by professor Kathy Williams, Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, the 25-episode series delves into Kew’s archive, including the herbarium of over seven million preserved plant specimens, to tell the story of how modern botany was born around the time of Kew’s establishment in 1759. It also examines how changes in scientific, economic and social preoccupations have influenced our attitudes to plants. The series is available indefinitely and episodes can be listened to individually or in five omnibus instalments.
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- https://wyss.harvard.edu
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Architecture, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, General Science, Medicine, Physics, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
An institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University devoted to research and technology development to create new bioinspired materials and devices with high-impact applications in healthcare, manufacturing, robotics, energy, and sustainable architecture. The Multimedia section of the website offers videos, animations and podcasts. Content is organised into Focus Areas (e.g. 3D Organ Engineering, Molecular Robotics, Synthetic Biology), Technology Areas (e.g. Building Materials, Medical devices, Organs on Chips), Disciplines (from Aging, Architecture, Biochemestry and Design to Materials Science, Medicine and Physics), and Application Areas (e.g. Balance & Motor Control, Cancer, Diabetes, Heart, Kidney, Liver and Lung diseases).
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Languages
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
BBC radio series about the English language and the way it is spoken. Presented by Michael Rosen, the programmes look at all aspects of the spoken word from slang, acronyms, strange vocabulary, jargon and poetry; along with etymology, and changes through time and among society. Recent episodes include, Dyslexia, in which Professor Maggie Snowling explains what it is and how to understand it, and Me, Myself & AI about how the conversation skills by the likes of Siri, Alexa and Cortana are designed. Older episodes such as The Naming of Art Movements or How Shakespeare Spoke are also available indefinitely.
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- Link
- https://hereslookingatyousite.wordpress.com/category/podcast/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
An online hub for various research projects from Dr Ellen Wright, Lecturer in Cinema and Television at DeMontfort University. Her research interrogates notions of gender, sexuality, class, taste, nationality and consumption linked to Classical Hollywood cinema and focuses on denigrated forms such as the celebrity group ‘selfie’, pin-up photography, slash fiction and pornography as well as press books, promotional materials for films and TV shows, film fan annuals, film and photography magazines/pamphlets, syndicated radio plays, film star fiction, film star/celebrity endorsements and advertising tie-ups. There are some 16 podcasts which include interviews with lecturers, body-based performance artists, film programmers, lawyers and magazine editors.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC correspondents investigate global events, developments and issues. The collection is updated daily and episodes are available indefinitely. A vast selection of the programmes broadcast between 2007 and 2014 can be accessed via the Podcast Archive section where they are organised by year. More recent episodes are displayed in chronological order by date of transmission. Subject search is not supported, but this drawback is compensated with the guarantee that any time spend browsing will be rewarded with an interesting find. These include: a 50 minute programme on the controversial video This is America by Donald Glover about gun violence, mass shootings, racism and discrimination in the US; an investigation into Burundi-one of the most secretive countries in Africa, an insight into the little known astronomer George Ellery Hale, a look at robot cars filling our roads in the near future, and a report on the Yaba drug which is produced in Myanmar but consumed in Bangladesh.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC series examining the ideas and forces, which shape public policy in Britain and abroad. The programmes are presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics. Recent episodes include How to Kill a Democracy, which looks at how democracies around the world are being dismantled; What are Universities for? which looks at the main purpose of the sector; and Why Are Even Women Biased Against Women, which examines discriminatory attitudes amongst women. There is also The Best of Analysis, where episodes are grouped under specific subject headings including, Economics, British Politics, Global Politics, Political Islam, Education, gender and Identity, Society and Culture, Europe, and Business and Finance.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0290t8h
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- Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
In this BBC podcast series, women from different cultures talk about their paths to success. Each programme, which lasts 30 minutes, presents the story of two exceptional women in a particular professional field. These include: judges, comics, explorers, fashion bosses and fashion designers, triathletes, scientists, advertising executives, activists, ambassadors, psychiatrists, surgeons, chefs, conductors, stuntwomen, rappers, artists, filmmakers, songwriters, war photographers, volcanologists, zoo keepers, perfume makers and many more. There is also The Conversation in…where a panel of successful women discuss current events taking place in their cities. All the programmes are available indefinitely.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Economics, Mathematics
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Are some statistics better than others? In this BBC podcast series, economist Tim Hartford makes sense of the numbers behind the studies quoted in political debate, news and everyday life. The ten-minute long programmes look at issues as varied as the gender gap in tech, whether people admitted to hospital at weekends are more likely to die, creativity and mental illness, the reliability of psychological studies, the numbers behind the migrant crisis, food surveys and the 8-hour sleeping myth. All the podcasts are available indefinitely.
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- https://www.borealisfestival.no/archive/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Music, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A festival for experimental music in Bergen, Norway. The festival organisers select work for broadcast by international sound artists, radio artists and composers who are pushing at the boundaries of their genre. Each year during the festival a radio art platform, Radio Space, streams online 24 hours a day so the public can tune in and become part of the festival’s home listening experiment. The festival’s website has a well organised archive which offers access to the websites of past festivals from 2006 until the present, all the Programme books from 2004 onwards, and the section Borealis in Videos and Sound which holds a selection of performances from each festival; there is also a Borealis Vimeo channel with over 75 videos and clips showing some of the experimental music and sound art performances.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
A BBC World Service series in which people who lived through moments of history bring a personal perspective to world events. The content is organised into four categories. Episodes available now: this includes over 2,400 programmes of ten minutes each; Podcasts: here the programmes are grouped into Archives which date back to 2010; Collections, which are organised thematically and currently include Iranian History; Black History; African History; Women in History; Soviet History; World War One and Two; Scientific History, Animals Who Made History; Indian History; Cuban History and the Vietnam War; Films, which contains over 250-four-minute clips. The content is truly extraordinary. Some treasures include: South Africa’s first free elections, How organic farming started, the Jamaican Slave rebellion of 1831, The First Digitally-Animated Feature Film, Gays and Lesbians and the British Miners’ Strike, The First Heart Transplant and The First Alzheimer’s Patient.
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