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  1. Podcast Thing Streaming

    Link
    http://podcastthing.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Design, Economics, Food, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    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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  2. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Podcast (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/pod/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Film Studies, General Science, History, Literature
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    There are nearly 200 of these podcasts available to listen to or download (in mp3 format). Each episode lasts between ten and twenty-five minutes and simply consists of an audio version of the person’s entry from the ODNB. The eclectic selection covers writers, politicians, scientists, entertainers and sportsmen and women, as well as ‘Wartime lives’, ‘Criminal lives’ and ‘One-offs’. The selection covers the very well-known - from the Emperor Hadrian and Boudicca, to Captain Scott, J.R.R. Tolkien and Princess Diana. The less obvious choices possibly provide more interesting fare: Nora Joyce, Humphrey Lyttelton, Angela Carter and Charles Darwin’s daughter Anne, to name just a few. Other names are not well-known but are remarkable in some way, such as the biographies of Herbert Burden, a World War I soldier, executed for desertion and Hannah Snell, an 18th century British woman who disguised herself as a man and became a soldier.

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  3. TVO Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://tvo.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Education, History, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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  4. Pop Up Archive Streaming

    Link
    https://www.popuparchive.org/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, History, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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  5. Radio Prague Streaming

    Link
    http://www.radio.cz/en
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, History, Languages, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    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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  6. Cymru 1914: The Welsh Experience of the First World War Streaming

    Link
    https://cymru1914.org/en/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    This resource is the result of a mass digitisation project by the Libraries, Special Collections and Archives of Wales. It brings together for the first time many previously fragmented and disparate materials and presents them as a coherent digital collection. The site features photographs, manuscripts, posters, newspapers and journals as well as a number of interviews with people remembering their experiences of the war, which includes first hand experiences of combat as well as memories of how the war affected local communities. The interviews, most of which are from Swansea University’s South Wales Miners’ Library collection, were conducted in the early 1970s and are accompanied by full transcripts.

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  7. RTÉ player Streaming

    Link
    https://www.rte.ie/player/gb/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History, Media Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

    This on-demand video service offers television and radio programmes broadcast by Irish public state broadcaster, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). Originally only available to Irish viewers, RTÉ player is now streaming its programmes worldwide. As well as current broadcast output, including drama, entertainment, news and sport, the broadcaster has also has a Classics category, featuring selected items from RTÉ's archive dating back to the 1960s. Also of interest to researchers is the RTÉ TV 50 site, which was created to celebrate fifty years of Irish television. Here the viewer can see clips from the earliest days of RTÉ, read a decade by decade history of the broadcaster, and, in the Clip of the Week section, see how RTE reported national events, social trends and cultural highlights over the past five decades, including a look at the impact of emigration from the West of Ireland in the early 1970s, an encounter with the Beatles at Dublin airport, and a feminist protest at the Forty Foot pool, a traditional male-only swimming point at Sandycove, Dublin.

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  8. Historical Association Streaming

    Link
    https://www.history.org.uk/index.php
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    This charity exists to support "the study and enjoyment of history at all levels by creating an environment that promotes lifelong learning and provides for the evolving needs of people who share an interest in history." Amongst its resources are a number of podcasts by experts and academics, some of which are augmented by visual and textual material. The podcasts are divided into four periods: Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History. Some of them are available only to members of the Historical Association.

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  9. History Scientist Streaming

    Link
    https://www.youtube.com/user/historyscientist?feature=watch
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Reviews, Streaming/Download

    Produced by Colin Sanders, who is a professional scientist and enthusiastic amateur historian, this YouTube site features book reviews and Sanders’ chapter by chapter review of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Sanders also has a blog called History Books Review which features transcripts of his Gibbon podcasts and the series is also available as a podcast on iTunes.

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  10. Europe From Its Origins Streaming

    Link
    http://www.europefromitsorigins.com/
    Subject
    History
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Irish historian Joseph Hogarty’s ambitious multimedia podcast traces the history of Europe from what he sees as its starting point in the third century AD, with the ultimate aim of bringing the chronicle all the way to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Each podcast is around an hour long and illustrated with maps, slides, video clips and music - for this reason the clips are in MPEG4 format. The series is densely argued and worth listening to from the beginning. Hogarty takes the view that modern historians tend to overemphasise the influence of Islam on Europe (which Hogarty sees as largely negative) while downplaying the central role of Christianity in unifying Europe and defining its culture.

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