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- https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/about/latest-research/oral-history-project
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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The History of Parliament’s Oral History Project is the result of a collaboration with the British Library which aims to produce a sound archive of British politics since 1945. The project’s ambition is to interview as many former MPs as possible and create an archive of audio recordings of the interviews, accompanied by transcripts. The recordings can be heard in their entirety only at the British Library, but this page presents audio excerpts from the interviews, along with a transcript of the clip, biographical details and a summary of the entire interview. Amongst the former Parliamentarians represented here are Denis Healey, Geoffrey Howe, Frank Judd and David Owen.
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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
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- 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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- http://podcastthing.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Design, Economics, Food, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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A portal which helps people to ‘find great podcasts’. Curated by Max Temkin and Veronica Corzo-Duchardt, the site presents a selection of mainly American podcasts, arranged under a number of topics, including Tech, Science & Education, Politics & Econ and Storytelling. An Interview page features transcripts of question and answer sessions with podcasters, writers, designers and other culturally-aware, creative people, who talk about their favourite podcasts, and why (and how) they like listening to them. The site works well because its focus is fairly narrow: the emphasis is on curation, and presenting a carefully selected range of interesting podcasts, rather than a comprehensive but overwhelming list of resources.
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- http://w3.osaarchivum.org/index.php
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Russian Studies, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Footage Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links
The Open Society Archives (OSA) at the Central European University in Budapest, collects, preserves and makes available documents and films relating to recent Eastern European History, particularly relating to Communism, the Cold War and human rights. Founded by George Soros in 1995, the OSA is a campaigning organisation and part of its mission is to develop new ways of contextualising primary resources: hence the wide range of exhibitions, projects and information presented on this stimulating and cleverly designed website. A number of resources, including Themed resource guides will help researchers navigate the wide range of material available, while the OSA TV part of the site presents video recordings of public lectures, events and exhibitions, as well as videos from the archival collections.
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- http://www.radio.cz/en
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, History, Languages, Radio Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The official international broadcasting station of the Czech republic offers its programmes as podcasts in six different languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Czech and Russian. The station’s website features a wide range of content, covering current affairs, business, arts, culture, history and sport. The podcasts are available to be downloaded in mp3 format or can be streamed and archived material goes back as far as 2005. A typical example is this interview with head of the Czech National Film Archive, Michael Bregant, in which he explains how during the Communist era staff had to resort to subterfuge to hide and preserve valuable film materials from the authorities.
The podcasts are accompanied by summaries, full transcripts and illustrated with stills and photographs. The History section of the archive is particularly interesting with sections devoted to 1968, the communist era, World War II and Czech-German relations. There is also some interesting contextual material in the form of illustrated essays, including a history of Czech radio and a detailed look at the history of Radio Prague
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- https://www.89up.org/product/little-atoms
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Current Affairs, General Science, Literature, Physics, Politics and Government, Religious Studies
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A podcast "based around ideas of the enlightenment" which promotes science, freedom of expression, scepticism, secular humanism, and often ends up dealing with the converse of these values: superstition, religious fundamentalism and authoritarianism. The show has featured numerous guests from the worlds of science, literature, philosophy and politics, including Frank Furedi, A.C. Grayling, Christopher Hitchens, Jonathan Meades to name but a few. The approach is often polemical but the result is always informative and entertaining. The programmes are free to download. The series is also broadcast on Resonance FM.
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- https://www.bloomberg.com/video/
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- Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
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- Organisations, Streaming/Download
The website of the financial services, data and media company features audiovisual content on all aspects of business, investment and finance. With production teams in Europe, the USA and Asia, the website has a global reach and can provide 24 hour coverage of the latest financial developments. The Live TV channel is complemented by a broad range of streamed programming, featuring both daily and weekly shows, all of which are freely available to watch online.
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- https://bloggingheads.tv/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Current Affairs, Economics, Education, General Science, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Founded in 2005, this American site pioneered split-screen video dialogues - or diavlogs - about politics and ideas. A central aspiration of the site is to present a diversity of views, rather than cleaving to a dominant ideology. The result is a lively forum that aims to help people see things from perspectives other than their own. The site features a number of different programmes, from Foreign Entanglements, which debates American foreign policy, to The DMZ, in which Liberal Bill Scher and conservative Matt Lewis discuss recent political events. The site’s main focus is political but culture and the arts, science, and socionomic issues are also represented. The site is well presented and the videos themselves have bookmarks to help navigation, which is helpful given the digressive nature of some of the material, such as this video where scientist John Horgan enthuses about why Jane Austen was like a scientist.
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- http://www.chronicleofprotest-thefilm.co.uk/video-blog/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This website complements Michael Chanan’s film about the anti-government protest movement, which covers events - demonstrations, marches, sit-ins - from November 2010 to the end of March 2011. Chanan gives a detailed explanation of the reasons - theoretical, financial and political - for making the film as a video diary, filmed on a handheld camera, with no voice-over or commentary. As a seasoned documentary filmmaker and academic who was radicalised in the 1960s, he sees his film as a celebration of the politicisation of today’s students, as well as an expression of opposition to mainstream media representations of the protesters. The site also features reviews, links and a video blog, featuring some of the footage used in the final film. A DVD of Chronicle of Protest is available to buy via the site and the film is also free to view on Vimeo.
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- http://www.goodfilms.org/films.htm
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- Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
Documentarian and campaigner Barbara Trent has created this resource to showcase the output of a collective of independent filmmakers, whose work confronts some of the murkier aspects of American foreign policy. From the Iran - Contra affair, through the 1989 invasion of Panama, to the Iraq War and the War on Terror, the website presents clips from the documentaries, together with links to filmmakers’ websites, where DVD copies of the films can be purchased.
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