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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://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/authors/e9e9fbf6-476f-35e8-a191-9e3baf7a5e92
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Streaming/Download
Filmmaker Adam Curtis uses this BBC-hosted site to express his own opinions in a series of blogs which are illustrated with footage and stills from the BBC archives. The results here echo his films in that they are highly associative, creating layers and levels of meaning from the use of fragments of archival footage and music, but less sprawling than his films, which means that often they can seem more to the point without losing the sense of playfulness and originality which characterises his work. The post Rupert Murdoch - A Portrait of Satan is the story of the media mogul’s rise to power in Britain as told via the BBC’s coverage, in which Curtis aims to illustrate "how far [Murdoch’s] populist rhetoric is genuine, and how far its is a smokescreen to disguise the interests of another elite". In another post - While the Band Played On - Curtis elegantly demonstrates how the use of music can manipulate our emotional reactions to watching film.
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- Link
- http://podacademy.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Podcasting
A platform for podcasts covering the arts, social sciences, business and economics, and science and the environment, this independent, not-for-profit initiative was set up in 2011 by a group of academics, journalists and IT specialists and aims to keep abreast of research in the academy as well as work that throws light on events in the news, thus combining rigorous scholarship with an up-to-the-minute accessibility. Recent podcasts include Laura Mulvey’s Death 24x a second in which she analyses the relationship between stillness and the moving image in cinema; an interview with Angela Phillips, Reader in Journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London and chair of the ethics committee of the organisation, Media Reform on the background to the Leveson Inquiry; and a look at Youth unemployment in the UK with author Callum Biggins who has written about the subject for the London-based liberal think tank CentreForum.
All the podcasts are accompanied by a full transcript and the site also features a blog and links to other educational sites.
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- http://www.charlierose.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, General Science, History, Literature, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Charlie Rose is an American journalist and talk show host. This website archives Rose’s one to one interviews and roundtable discussion with writers, novelists, scientists, politicians, business leaders, athletes and actors. The collection - which is huge - can be searched by subject as well as participant.
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- http://www.slate.com/articles/video.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, General Science, Literature, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The video channel of the US-based online culture and current affairs magazine Slate. The magazine has a left-leaning bias and its tone is witty, irreverent and informative. For example, the video on FX/digital compositing explains how hidden special effects work in films in a very entertaining way. The Podcasts cover similar ground.
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- Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- 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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- https://sounds.bl.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Art, Current Affairs, Drama, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
50,000 selected sound recordings from the British Library’s sound archive, covering music, spoken word, wildlife and oral history. There is a vast range of material available here: the Arts, literature and performance page alone contains a wealth of diverse material from a series of talks at the ICA, which comprises over 800 discussions during the period 1982-1993 with contemporary writers, artists and filmmakers, to early spoken word recordings, the African Writers Club Collection and the Theatre Archive Project. Other sections cover Sound Recording History, Jazz and popular music and Accents and Dialects. Much of the material is freely available but some is for the use of Higher and Further Education institutions only.
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- https://www.youtube.com/user/humanrights
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Beta version of new website hosted by YouTube and launched by WITNESS, in partnership with video playlist creator Storyful. The site aims to enable citizen journalists, activists and other organisations to upload footage about human rights abuses and protest movements from all over the world. Amateur video footage is becoming increasingly important in reporting such stories, particularly in countries where media output is controlled by repressive regimes, and this site aims to curate and provide context and background information to the proliferating amount of material, both to facilitate greater understanding of the political situation and to encourage further engagement and activism. A series of video clips collected under the heading Anatomy of a Syrian Bombing gives a good idea of how the site organises and uses footage: it shows the traumatic and distressing narrative of a rocket attack on a rural village in Idlib, from the fall of the bombs, the destruction caused, to the search for and discovery of victims, both alive and dead.
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- http://www.snagfilms.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Current Affairs, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Nature, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Website offering over 3,000 streamed films, which are available to view for free and supported by advertising. Most of the content is documentary but there are some fiction and feature films. The site is searchable by subject and by channel, or production company and the films include synopses and credits. There is also a ‘Filmanthropy’ section where films are arranged thematically according to their power to inspire or enlighten the viewer and all the films are linked to related charitable causes. Due to licensing agreements not all the films are available to viewers in the United Kingdom.
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- Link
- http://www.rmtv.org.uk/
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Website of the RMT transport union, showing speeches, footage of campaigns and marches, interviews and news items as well as a small selection of documentary films relevant to the trade union movement, including ‘The People’s Flag’, a 1987 documentary series on the Labour movement , part one of which can be seen here. There are also a number of campaign films made by left-wing film collective Cinema Action: The UCS Struggle is a campaign film from 1971 supporting the fight to retain their jobs by the workers at Upper Clyde Shipyards.
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