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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjz5/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
From world leaders to business moguls to entertainers, this long running BBC radio programme offers an insight into influential figures making the news headlines. The podcasts, which are available indefinitely, go back to 2010. Some of the personalities featured in early editions include pop icon Lady Gaga, fashion designer John Galliano and artist Ai Weiwei. Recent editions include, founder of Extinction Rebellion Dr Gail Bradbrook, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, and Sonita Alleyne, who is the first black woman to lead an Oxbridge college.
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- Link
- https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bostonpubliclibrary
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Spanning many genres, including classical, pop, rock, jazz and opera, and a variety of formats- from 78rpms produced in the 1900s to LPs from the 1980s-, the vast and valuable holdings of the Sound Archive at the Boston Public Library is now available for free via the Internet Archive. The collection can be explored by Year, Topics & Subjects, Language, Creator and Collection. Highlights include early American jazz and blues recordings, such as 11 sides from Paramount Records.
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- Link
- http://www.changingacademiclife.com/start
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Education, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the University of Technology in Vienna, chats to teaching and research academics about the changes academic life is undergoing, from increased workloads and performance ratings to the effects of the corporatisation of academia. Recent editions of the series include Professor Jennifer Mankoff on dealing with disability and chronic disease as an academic, Professor Moshe Vardi on publication pressures, student stress, mid-career mentoring and societal obligations, and Professor Leysia Palen on creating a new research area, the long path to tenure and starting a department.
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- Link
- http://songexploder.net
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Music
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcast series about the intersection of music, creativity and design. Host Hrishikesh Hirway asks musicians to talk about the specific decisions that went into creating their songs. There are over 100 episodes including interviews with Bjork, Mumford & Sons, Janelle Monae, Iggy Pop, Gorillaz, Arcade Fire, and Metallica.
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- Link
- https://futureoflife.org
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- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Computing, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Podcasts produced by the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a Boston-based charity and outreach organisation working to ensure that artificial intelligence technologies are beneficial for humanity. The FLI Podcast features its Director of Media, Ariel Conn, in conversation with prominent researchers, policy experts, philosophers, and other influential thinkers. The AI Alignment Podcast series covers and explores the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of AI alignment through conversation with technical and non-technical researchers across areas such as machine learning, governance, ethics, philosophy, and psychology.
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- Link
- 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
- Type of resource
- 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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- Link
- 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
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtnz/episodes/downloads
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- 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/
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- 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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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs
- Medium
- 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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