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- https://www.city.ac.uk/cambridge-spies-the-guy-burgess-files
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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This fascinating microsite presents the only known audio recording of spy Guy Burgess, which was made by Burgess in 1951, just before he defected to the Soviet Union. In the recording, Burgess recalls his meeting with Winston Churchill in 1938. The tape was recovered from the FBI by two academics at City University: former head of ITN, Professor Stewart Purvis and media historian Jeff Hulbert. The site tells not only the story of how Purvis and Hulbert tracked down the recording but also includes a contextual essay on the significance of the tape, an events timeline, a full transcript of the tape’s contents, an FBI memo by J. Edgar Hoover, a video recording of the moment when Purvis and Hulbert opened the package from the FBI, and a Channel 4 News report by Michael Crick about the story.
The material is all freely available on the site. Researchers wishing to download any of the content are required to fill in a short request form.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qtqd/episodes/downloads
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
An essential digest of the day in the British Parliament, highlighting the main issues, debates and news from Westminster. Episodes are available for thirty days after broadcast and subscription is free through a variety of outlets, including iTunes and RSS feed. Each podcast features a brief textual summary of the episode.
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- https://tvo.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Education, History, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
TV Ontario have made hundreds of programmes and programme clips freely available online as part of an ongoing digitisation programme to celebrate four decades as a producer of educational programmes. Users can explore the website by Programme, Subject or People, or use a keyword search and narrow their search by decade and topic. The content includes interviews with Canadian and American writers, including Ontarian Margaret Atwood, who in this clip from 1976 talks about her life and career as writer of novels and literary criticism.
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- https://www.popuparchive.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, History, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
This portal provides access to American oral history and sound archive material, using open source software to enable content providers to store and catalogue their files so that their collections can be preserved in perpetuity. The software allows the files to be tagged with rich metadata (including recording date, broadcast date, location, subject, interviewer and interviewee) so that the collections can be easily searched and accessed by researchers. The material is streamed and is not available for download and new material is being added as it is digitised and catalogued.
Collections include Studs Terkel’s interviews from the 1952-1997 radio show, The Studs Terkel Program, on the Chicago station WFMT, featuring Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Sidney Poitier and Diane Arbus, amongst others. Other collections, such as the Pacifica Radio Archives and Illinois Public Media document some of the most significant changes in recent American history, particularly the 1950s and 1960s. First hand accounts from prime movers and campaigners in the African-American civil rights movement, the women’s movement, and from student activism and gay rights campaigners, present a vital picture of a time of political and social upheaval from outside the mainstream US media.
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- https://www.nytimes.com/ref/books/books-podcast-archive.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
Archive of weekly book reviews going back to 2006. Presented in a magazine format, the podcast features reviews of recently published books as well as updates on the publishing world and interviews with authors.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/GiffordLectures
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Politics and Government, Religious Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The Gifford Lectures were established in 1898 "to contribute to the advancement of theological and philosophical thought". The lectures take place over the course of the academic year in four Scottish universities: St Andrews, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh. The contents of the series from 2009 onwards are freely available as video and audio podcasts. Recent speakers include Terry Eagleton speaking on the God Debate, and former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on The Future of Jobs and Justice. Perhaps more typical is historian Diarmaid MacCulloch’s series of lectures on the history of silence in the Christian church. The series is also streamed on a YouTube channel.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g5ztq
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
This series of BBC podcasts features Harvard political philosopher Professor Michael Sandel, who presents an audience with a series of debates and lectures on a variety of current issues, such as education, equality, pay and healthcare. The podcast Should we bribe people to be healthy? is a typically provocative look at whether the present constraints on the NHS leave us with no choice but to bribe people to be healthy. Sandel looks at the moral issues and implications behind the premise, using the thought of philosophers past and present to make his argument, as well as involving audience members.
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- https://soasradio.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Development Studies, Ethnology, Languages, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Hosted by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, SOAS Radio’s output is extremely varied, covering world music, culture and current affairs in some depth. The content has been divided into several categories to make it more easily searchable.
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- http://www.econtalk.org/
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Economics, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This weekly, hour-long podcast is hosted by Professor Russell Roberts at George Mason University and features in-depth interviews with prominent economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Steiglitz and Ronald Coase, as well as wider discussions covering the political, philosophical and ethical implications of different schools of economic thought. In this podcast from 2009, Christopher Hitchens makes the case for why George Orwell still matters. The podcasts are accompanied by transcripts, links and selective bibliographies and are free to listen to and download. A number of podcasts come with listening guides, consisting of questions and suggestions for teachers at secondary level and higher. Recommended.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, Economics, Ethnology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
Alistair Cooke’s first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast by the BBC in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world. The 920 surviving recordings, broadcast between 1946 and 2004, are now online. The can be searched by date and by theme, the latter including such categories as US presidents, race, music & movies, history and so on.
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