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- http://www.jeanettewinterson.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Literature, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
The homepage of this British writer contains graphics and audio clips available through Flash. The site also features a monthly column, book recommendations and some of her most recent journalism, as well as a link to a the webcast of a talk she gave at the Tate in January 2002 which can be viewed with Real.
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- http://www.firstworldwar.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Literature, Music
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
The first world war is presented here in a series of in-depth collections which seek to inform the novice as well as the more knowledgeable user. These cover a variety of features related to the period, including posters, stills, moving images, as well as some of the best-known songs and poems from that time. In addition to this, there are sections devoted to individual battles, specific weapons as well as tours of the battlefields and the cemeteries, all of which are presented in a mixture of sound, vision and text. The video and audio clips can be accessed with Quick Time.
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- http://www.favoritepoem.org
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Part of an American project to encourage poetry reading at a local and national level, the over forty poems presented here (all in English - foreign titles have been translated) include works by such authors as Andrew Marvel, Longfellow, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost as well as less well known poets such as Joy Harjo and Sone No Yoshitada. All the texts are provided in full, in addition to which they can all can be heard being read by a selection of enthusiasts as part of a five-minute video (viewable using RealPlayer) which introduces the life and activities of these readers.
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- http://www.rolandcollection.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Architecture, Art, Design, Literature, Photography
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses, Databases, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
A database of over 600 films on art and the history of art available for sale, including seven and a half hours of online preview clips as well as over 300 hours of complete full length documentary films, from a major collection of art films and videos. A clearly laid-out site with informative descriptions and background detail, searchable in a variety of ways: by artist, period, theme, location, audience age etc. The collection covers a wide range of art disciplines including painting, drawing, graphics, sculpture, architecture, design, photography, video art and modern literature and since October 2001 has been available in nine languages.
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- http://www.57productions.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Distributors, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
57 Productions organises public events and distributes recorded material on popular poetic material in the UK, representing over fifty writers and performers. The catalogue offers for sale audio and video recordings by, amongst others, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, John Cooper Clarke, Linto Kwezi Johnson, Liz Lochhead, Adrian Mitchell and Benjamin Zephaniah.The Jukebox section of the site plays audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In October 2006 a new website will be launched - carrying new audio-visual, audio & interactive content including the worlds first Poetry Video Jukebox which will feature newly produced & special arkive poetry-films and iPoems will present new recordings alongside 57s back-catalogue, starting with 1001 MP3s. Access to the new site will be through subscription-based membership areas and by directly downloadable MPEG & MP3 files. Annual subscriptions will be £10 - to access all areas. Downloads of audio-visual & audio content will also be available at £1 for 1 x MPEG & 50p for 1 x MP3 files (all figures inc. VAT)
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- http://www.gresham.ac.uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Archaeology, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Biology, Business Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, General Science, History, Information Studies, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Photography, Politics and Government, Psychiatry, Psychology, Religious Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Gresham College, named after Sir Thomas Gresham, has been giving free lectures for some 400 years. Over 2,000 audio and/or video lectures given since 2001 are available on the site for free, on-demand streaming or download approximately two weeks after they have been given. The main subject areas are Art & Literature, Medical Science, Business, History, Law, Mathematics, Music, Politics, Religion, Science, and Unusual, which includes Media, Education, Climate Change and others. Results can also be filtered by subcategories. For example, there is a section on Film under the Arts & Literature category, and a section on Film Music under the Music category. The lectures last, on average, between 25 minutes and a little under an hour. They all have a good number of chapters and a fair amount of information is given on the site as well as transcripts and links to related materials.
The content can also be browsed via the tab Watch which contains four groupings: All Past Lectures, Series, Shorts and Short Series.
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- http://www.dcfr.net/macbeth/mainpage.html
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Literature
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download
After a temporary absence from the Internet, Star Wars: Macbeth has returned with a new home base and a remastered media section. A seventeen-minute production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth combined with the iconography of Star Wars. Originally produced as a classroom project by Glen Ridge High School, it can be downloaded using QuickTime. Irresistible. This site is full of information on how this video was completed. The site also includes sections dedicated to news, biographies and special effects.
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- http://www.research-tv.com
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- Art, Business Studies, Drama, General Science, History, Literature, Medicine, Nature, Social Welfare, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Research-TV was created by the University of Warwick to provide broadcasters with a regular news feed of stories about cutting-edge research. It divides its programmes up into Health, Technology, Society, Science and Nature, Business, and Creative and Cultural. Each comes with synopsis, transcript, links, and the programme in narrowband or broadband options (using Windows Media Player). All stories produced by Research-TV’s news professionals are made available to broadcasters free of charge through the APTN service, on local ends for UK broadcasters and London-based foreign correspondents, with additional tape distribution upon request. All stories are available for preview online on the website, on other online video sites (YouTube, Public.TV, OSTN), and also as vodcasts on iTunes.
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- http://www.ideachannel.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Economics, Environmental Studies, Literature, Medicine, Music, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
An extensive collection of video and audio clips taken from interviews with scientists and scholars, including several Nobel Prize winners (Milton Friedman, Ilya Prigogine, Norman Borlaug, John F. Nash, Linus Pauling and others), available as streamed audio or video (a number are listed as being available shortly), with complete videos or transcripts available for purchase. The site is clearly arranged and described, and is categorised under Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, Culture, Economics, Environment, Health/Medicine, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology.
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- http://www.quentincrisp.com/index.html
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
This site celebrates the life of Quentin Crisp, the actor and raconteur who finally found fame in the 1970s with the publication of his autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, which was filmed for television in 1975, with John Hurt in the lead role. Crisp subsequently left the UK and settled in New York, where he remained until his death in 1999. The site includes material from this later part of his life, including clips of Crisp speaking a number of his famous aphorisms and bon mots which can be viewed with QuickTime, as well as moving slide shows. The site also has a stills gallery as well as extracts from Crisp’s books.
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