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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0290t8h
- Category
- Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- 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
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Economics, Mathematics
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- https://www.borealisfestival.no/archive/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- 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.essexarchivesonline.co.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Photography, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This is the catalogue for the Essex Record Office, which holds not only documents, maps and photographs but also sound recordings and videos. The collections cover oral history; selected items from BBC Essex radio; selections from local hospital TV and talking newspapers; videos of local interest, including many from the East Anglian Film Archive; dialect recordings; and recordings of music performed by local musicians, including a major collection of folk music and folk dance drawn from Essex sources. The site also offers well-produced user guidelines to four registers: family, house, vehicles and electoral rolls. Official registers are excellent avenues into researching many aspects of local history and culture but their records can sometimes be difficult to understand, so the tips on how to search and how to make sense of the results are very useful. The advanced search tool can be used to narrow results to one type of material only (e.g. audiovisual). To watch the moving image and sound holdings an account needs to be created, and registration is free.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1hd
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- 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.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.radioarts.org.uk
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
An independent artists’ group whose aim is to promote radio as a site for creative experimentation. The group organises workshops, sound installations and live events, and commissions and broadcasts new sound works by international artists. The site has an audio gallery of commissioned works which have been aired on 13 partner stations including ABC (AUS), RTE, Resonance FM, Soundart Radio, Phonic FM, Radio Reverb, Radiophrenia, BCB, Wave Farm (US), Radio Papesse and Borealis Festival. Each commission has its own page with an in-depth description of the work, a biography of the artist, and links to excerpts of the work and in some cases interviews.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dl1b
- Category
- Bio-Medical
- Subject
- Medicine, Psychiatry, Psychology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC series in which Dr Mark Porter, with the help of GP Margaret McCartney,
demystifies health issues by separating fact from fiction and bringing clarity to conflicting health advice. There are over 200 episodes covering just about everything, from the confusion and prejudice around the skin condition vitiligo to social prescribing, where patients are referred to non-clinical services such as looking after an allotment and exercise programme at a local football club. Each episode last 30 minutes and has its own page on the site which includes a transcript and links to related resources. The Podcasts are updated weekly and available indefinitely.
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bq6j1
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Computing, Mathematics
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC podcast looking at 70 years of computing history. Milestones highlighted include: the design of automatic calculating engines in the 1940s, the first office computer in the 1950s, the Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment, the first efforts to link early computers, the coming of cheap microprocessors in the 1970s, the arrival of Microcomputers to British classrooms and then to most homes, early generation of programmers of video games, and the dotcom Bubble, the design and build of the ARM chip which can be found in most mobile devices. Episodes are presented by Dr Hannah Fry and are available indefinitely.
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- Link
- https://www.circuit.org.nz
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Founded in 2012, this arts agency supports and represents moving image practice in New Zelaland. The online resource streams over 700 videos by some 100 New Zealand artists. The collection is searchable by artist, title, year and keyword. Extensive clips of the works are available online for research and study purposes. The site also presents a fortnightly podcast hosted by Mark Amery, who is joined by local guest curators, writers and artists to dissect recent exhibitions and events in the world of local and international moving image. The podcast was launched in 2013, and the archive now contains over 80 programmes of approximately 30 minutes each. A recent addition to their podcast collection is an interview with Scottish filmmaker Luke Fowler on which he talks about his filmed portraits of experimental musicians, the revolutionary potential of the past and the responsibility of the spectator.
Other Online Moving image Audio
Learning on Screen