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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/front-row/american-authors/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
To coincide with Mark Lawson’s Capturing America series, the BBC has made permanently available on the Front Row website twenty full-length interviews with leading American authors. The earliest recording is with Stephen King from 1998 and other featured authors are Edward Albee, Patricia Cornwell, Don DeLillo, EL Doctorow, Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, John Irving, Normal Mailer, Toni Morrison, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Marilynne Robinson, Philip Roth, John Updike, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, August Wilson, and Tom Wolfe. A further ten authors will be added to the collection shortly. Elsewhere on the Front Row site there is a listing of all programmes broadcast in the series since 2004, and it is also possible to sign up to receive podcasts or an email newsletter on programmes in the current series.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qykl
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Classics, Computing, Drama, Economics, Genetics, Geology, History, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Music, Nature, Physics, Radio Studies, Social Studies, Technology
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The website accompanying the BBC Radio 4 series In Our Time, in which Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas, has been redesigned, and the Archive section now makes every episode broadcast since the series began in 1998 available to listen to again via RealPlayer. Programmes are searchable by title, genre (culture, history, philosophy, religion, science) and by era, from prehistoric to 20th century. Recent programmes are available as podcasts, and an e-mail newsletter gives Melvyn Bragg’s personal insight into the latest programme.
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- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatre-collection/explore/live-art/digital-performance-archive/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama, Russian Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The Digital Performance Archive (DPA) was an outcome of an Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) funded research project between Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities to undertake a major collection and analysis of digital performance events and developments that occurred during the 1990s. The project was called DRIP-DROP, standing for Digital Resources In Performance Digital Resources On Performance, and it documented developments in the creative use of computer technologies in performance - from live theatre and dance productions that incorporated digital media, to cyberspace interactive dramas and web-casts.
The Drip-Drop project produced an extensive online searchable database of virtual theatre performance and related events from 1990 to 2000, including selected video documentation, images and statements by creators.
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- http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/updatedList.html
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Advertising, American Studies, Drama, Geology, History, Media Studies, Music
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The incomparable ‘American Memory’ section of the vast Library of Congress site includes a ‘Performing Arts’ section, with playscripts, theatre bills, sound recordings and motion pictures, including Coca-Cola advertisements, early American animation, films from the Theodore Roosevelt collection, early American variety acts, early film of New York and San Francisco, films of the Spanish-American War, and Edison films and sound recordings. All films are available in Real, MPEG and QuickTime formats, and there is excellent supporting catalogue information.
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- http://shakespearestaging.berkeley.edu/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This website, hosted by the Shakespeare Program at the University of California, Berkeley seeks to provide videos, still images, weblinks, current information, and discussion about the staging of Shakeseare’s plays over the centuries. The site is subject to continuous revision and expansion, and at the beginning of 2009 contains over 1,000 still images and video extracts of live performances concerning Shakespeare.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Architecture, Art, Classics, Dance, Drama, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Sports Science, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Streaming/Download
Hundreds of audio extracts from the BBC archives can be accessed here using Real Player, and feature a wide range of personalities, including Siegfried Sassoon, Alfred Hitchcock, Roald Dahl, George Bernard Shaw, Stevie Smith and dozens of others. It is possible to search alphabetically by name or by profession such as: actors, architects, cartoonists, composers, dancers, film directors, musicians, painters, photographers, poets, religious thinkers, sculptors, sports and writers. The individual clips are supplemented with biographical notes, and the site, part of the BBC’s main audio-visual site AudioVideo is extremely well presented and easy to use. This site was originally knows as Voices from the archive.
NB. This resource is currently unavailable.
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- https://www.oxygen.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Biology, Crafts, Drama, Media Studies, Medicine, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download, Update
Part of the now defunct ThriveOnline Organic Food Video Library was incorporated into a sister site, Oxygen.com. Oxygen is also a channel on American TV aimed at women, and the video gallery on the site includes streamed extracts from the channel’s programmes using QuickTime. Some of the clips come from British comedies, such as Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous and Suburban Shootout, but most of the extracts are from American shows, including Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Birth Stories, Drastic Plastic Surgery and many more.
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- http://www.naxos.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Film Studies, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
The budget classical music label has bravely made much of its catalogue available online, offering the complete recordings broken up into tracks as on the CD releases. There is excellent supporting information, such as lives of composers and reviews. The site also includes a very useful listing of classical music themes used in feature films, again with the complete recordings (in their Naxos version) available to hear online.
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Audio
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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Music, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The inevitably huge Radio 3 website of course includes listings for the BBC’s classical music and arts radio channel, but there is a rich array of supporting information in the sections on Classical, Jazz, World and New, Arts and Drama, including sound and video clips, and sections devoted to individual programmes. Particularly welcome is the Feature Archive on past programmes. The live broadcast is also streamed from the site. The schedules were heavily revamped in 2007.
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- https://www.bravotv.com/videos?field_show_nid=114
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Film Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
An archive of (quite brief) extracts from interviews with over seventy actors, including Jennifer Aniston, Colin Firth and Ricky Gervais, taken from the Bravo television series of interviews with film actors.
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Learning on Screen