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- https://culture.pl/en/news
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Languages, Literature, Music
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- Film/Video
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A useful website on all aspects of Polish culture both contemporary and historical. Articles and reviews cover literature, film, music, visual arts and theatre. This piece on Polish Cinema of the Silent Era gives an overview of early film practitioners in Poland; another piece considers the mind-boggling difficulties and the human cost of translating Finnegans Wake into Polish, one of only ten languages to have its own version of Joyce’s magnum opus.
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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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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.meettheauthor.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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The appeal of this site lies in its simplicity: authors speak directly to camera about their latest book. The pieces are brief, ranging from thirty seconds to just over a minute, but are often revealing, amusing and informative. The site features over 1,600 clips which can be searched for by author, book title, keyword and category. The Author’s Lounge section features a smaller number of longer pieces such as this interview with j_g_ballard who discusses his autobiography Miracles of Life with Hari Kunzru.
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- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, PennSound is an online poetry archive and website featuring free audio recordings of poets reading their work, podcasts about poetry and a selection of readings of classics, featuring readings from the works of Poe, Milton, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Langland and others. This is a rich resource that rewards exploration. Amongst its treasures is the Ezra Pound archive which spans the Harvard Vocarium readings, made in 1939, to recordings made in 1972, the year of the poet’s death. The readings are accompanied by Richard Sieburth’s essay and listener’s guide The Sound of Pound.
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- https://documentarystorm.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Art, General Science, History, Literature
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- Film/Video
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This website aims to gather full-length documentaries from all over the internet and make them available for free viewing and/or downloading. There are currently over 1,600 films on the site, usefully indexed according to broad categories, such as Art, Science, Biography, Psychology, Sports and Gaming etc. which are further sub-divided: the History/Archaeology includes the categories Excavation, Middle Ages, Renaissance for example. The content is wide-ranging, the aims of the site broadly educational and the end result is well worth a look.
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- https://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Archaeology, Art, Literature, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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The podcasts and videos from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC offer a comprehensive range of lectures, talks, conversations with contemporary artists and collectors and films about the gallery’s history, exhibitions and collections. Rachel Whiteread, Andy Goldsworthy, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude are just some of the artists who can be heard talking about their work. Other lectures deal with Picasso, abstract art since Pollock and art and representation in the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations. There is also a collection of music podcasts featuring performances and talks.
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- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Website of the Poetry Foundation, a Chicago-based independent institution "committed to a vigorous presence for poetry in our culture". The site is a rich resource, featuring the texts of more than 10,000 poems by 1,800 poets, with a search engine to enable browsing by poet, period, poetic school, occasion and country as well as by poetic terms and subjects. There are also interviews, criticism, reading guides, event listings, and poetry-related news. The site’s podcasts are arranged by theme and series: The Essential American Poets features archival recordings of writers as well as introductions to their lives and work: Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are among those represented.
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- https://videos.cervantes.es/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Languages, Literature, Music
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- Film/Video
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The television channel of the Instituto Cervantes streams videos on a variety of subjects covering the arts and humanities with the aim of promoting the Spanish language and cultures of Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, and includes interviews, documentaries, and bulletins on Hispanic culture, film, music and art.
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- http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Literature
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An indispensable resource for those studying the poetry of the First World War, this hugely comprehensive website is based around a core collection of primary material by major poets of the era, including the digitised correspondence, poetry and notebooks of Wilfred Owen, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Robert Graves and Vera Brittain, amongst others. Contextual material includes over 150 downloadable video clips consisting of material from the last three years of the war, from the Western and Home Fronts as well as modern day recordings of notable sites in France and Belgium. Audio material encompasses interviews with veterans and a series of podcasts featuring talks and interviews with key thinkers on the literature of the war and the war in general. An Education section directs teachers, school users and those in higher education how to get the best from the resource.
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- http://www.snagfilms.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Nature, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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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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