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- https://92yondemand.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Business Studies, General Science, Literature, Music, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Sports Science, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Huge archive of freely available audio and video interviews with around 1000 notable figures from the worlds of literature, art, music, entertainment, politics and sport who have appeared at the 92Y, a New York community centre and cultural institution with a history stretching back to the late nineteenth century. Users can search by year, topic or performer name to find Kurt Vonnegut’s first public reading from ‘Breakfast of Champions’ in 1970, Wallace Stevens reciting ‘An Ordinary Evening in New Haven’, Iris Murdoch discussing philosophy and novel writing and Christopher Hitchens debating whether or not Islam is a religion of peace. Known for its sophisticated, well-read audiences, the quality of debate is high and the topics range widely, covering sports, comedy, Jewish issues, business & finance and science & technology, as well as literature.
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- https://fivethirtyeight.com/politics/
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- Social Sciences
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- Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Taking its name from the number of electors in the US Electoral College, this podcast analyses politics and elections through opinion polls and other data to present an informed look at the subject through editor Nate Silver’s own methodology, (derived from a way of analysing baseball statistics) based on using poll data together with comparative demographic information. The site correctly predicted the winner of the 2012 election in all fifty states.
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- https://thisiscriminal.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Law, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Compelling podcast series which tells the stories of people who have been affected by crime, from the point of view of the perpetrators, the victims and people caught in the middle. Approaching the subject from the human interest angle and covering stories from the present day as well as historical crimes, the podcast would be of interest to students of law, criminology or the history of crime. Each episode is tightly-edited, self-contained and told without recourse to sensationalism.
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- http://www.thebroadexperience.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Excellent podcast about women in the workplace which examines a broad range of issues in a positive, business-like manner, covering race, communication styles, sexual harassment, the glass ceiling, women in academia, salary levels, childcare issues and many other subjects. Featuring interviews, panel discussions and case studies, the site is distinguished by its intelligent, nuanced and humorous approach to a complex area. The site, which features a clean, easy to navigate layout, also includes a blog, transcripts and a newsletter.
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- https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Economics, Ethnology, History, Literature, Politics and Government, Religious Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of podcasts from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Featuring speakers from Latin and South American universities as well as European institutions, the podcasts cover a wide range of subjects including decolonisation, Latin American fiction in UK libraries, mining in the Andes, the legacy of Hugo Chavez, religious practices in the Caribbean, to name but a few.
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- http://anzacsightsound.org/about
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, History
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
Beautifully designed site featuring digitised footage, sounds and documents from New Zealand and Australian film archives about the First World War. The site was created to commemorate the centenary of Australia and New Zealand’s involvement in World War One by showcasing audio-visual material related to the war held by Nga Taonga Sound & Vision (NTSV) and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). Designed for browsing, the site has been arranged according to three main subjects: Homefronts, Battlefronts and Aftermath. Within each subject users can browse content arranged according to different themes, including cinema going, the home front, conscription, war in Europe, the Gallipoli Campaign, Anzac Day etc. Users can also search for material via an interactive timeline and map.
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- http://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/items/hss/178298.html#
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Law
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This podcast is about the laws of the United Kingdom; how they were made, what they do and how they can be understood and interpreted. It features contributions from expert researchers and academics from QMUL’s School of Law. The first episode focuses on European Union law. Episode two, which was made before the results of the 2016 EU referendum looks at Brexit and how the country would extricate itself from the European Union law system. The verdict: ‘It’s going to be a legal mess, which will take a lot of time to untangle’.
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- http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/history_of_slavery.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, History
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Nine episode podcast series about the history of American slavery presented by Slate Magazine. Each episode is told from the point of view of a particular enslaved person, and takes a chronological approach in order to show how the institution of slavery changed over time. Presented by journalists Rebecca Onion and Jamelle Bouie, the series also features contributions from historians. There is a range of interesting supplementary materials, including an interactive animation which gives a powerful sense of the scale of the trans-Atlantic slave trade across time.
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- http://www.environmentandsociety.org/mml
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- Social Sciences
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- Environmental Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This worthy enterprise is a dynamic digital archive which aims to make images, podcasts, scholarly texts, documentary films, and other materials of the environmental humanities openly accessible to all users. The portal is the digital publication platform and archive of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), a nonprofit joint initiative of the LMU (University of Munich) and the Deutsches Museum
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- https://www.samharris.org/podcast
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- General Science, Psychology, Religious Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The podcast of philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris features a mixture of topics from neuroscience and philosophy to religion, violence and human reasoning. Harris explores controversial and complex issues from a rational, evidence-based point of view.
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