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- https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/new-yorker-poetry/id784600888?mt=2
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Literature
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Readings, conversations and interviews with poets hosted by the New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon. Muldoon invites a poet to read a poem by another poet from the New Yorker’s archive and then discuss the poem. After this the guest poet reads one of her or his own poems.
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- https://tvtropes.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Advertising, Film Studies, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, Lists
This entertaining and informative site attempts to categorise, index and contextualise tropes - storytelling devices or conventions - as they appear in television programmes, films, games, music, literature, and other media. There are four main indexes: Genre Tropes, Media Tropes, Narrative Tropes and Topical Tropes. Each of these main headings is further subdivided so that under the Narrative Trope heading, for example, one can explore Characters, Conflict, Motifs Settings etc., down to a microscopic level of detail. The site began in 2004, primarily focusing on the television series ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’. Since then it has vastly expanded its scope to cover most types of media. Users can explore by series or trope. Each series entry features a list of tropes associated with that series, whereas users exploring by trope (British Teeth, for example) will find a list of that trope’s appearance in television, film, literature etc. Although the approach is often humorous the site represents an invaluable resource for anyone interested in exploring or analysing the building blocks of storytelling and narrative construction, in any medium, but particularly television.
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- Subject
- Drama, Literature, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
Bardbox collects ‘some of the best and most interesting of original Shakespeare-related videos on YouTube, Vimeo and other video hosting sites’. As of March 2017 the number of results returned from a search for ‘Shakespeare’ in YouTube is nearing two million: for this reason the approach of BardBox is necessarily selective. Luke McKernan, who maintains the site, selects videos specifically created for distributon on YouTube, Vimeo, Daily Motion and other sites, and posts the content along with his own comments and details of cast, credits, date and links. An inspired and inspiring resource.
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- http://www.gold.ac.uk/podcasts/app/front/allpodcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Art, Drama, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Photography, Psychology, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Goldsmiths produce a wide-range of interesting podcasts, covering a broad range of subject areas. The podcasts are grouped by series and include lectures, talks and discussions on feminism, sociology, creative writing, cultural studies, philosphy, psychology, dance etc.
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- https://www.ashmolean.org/podcasts
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Astronomy, German Studies, History, Languages, Literature
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of curated podcasts in which an academic from Oxford University chooses an object from the Ashmolean Museum and speaks about it in the context of their own research and interests. Historians, scientists, mathematicians and linguists take their turn, amongst them Diarmaid MacCulloch speaking about the Reformation in the context of a medal from the reign of Henry VIII and Marcus Du Sautoy on the mathematical implications of carved neolithic stones.
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- Link
- https://www.nypl.org/voices/audio-video
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Information Studies, Literature, Music
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The New York Public Library produces a range of interesting resources relating to its own services, as well as a number of podcasts about books and culture in general. The Librarian is In is a lively podcast presented by staff of the New York Public Library. Styling itself the ‘podcast about books, culture and what to read next’ each episode does exactly that, adding information about issues affecting librarians and information professionals. Amongst the other other offerings are the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project and interviews with writers like Michael Chabon, Richard Price, Wole Soyinka, Art Spiegelman and Tom Wolfe.
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- Link
- https://www.hayfestival.com/archive/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- History, Literature, Social Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Festivals, Streaming/Download
Online archive featuring audio recordings of talks, interviews and readings from the Hay Festival, going back as far as 1995. Much of the content is free, although some is behind a paywall. The site also features content from Hay’s international sister festivals in Beirut, Segovia, Nairobi, Arequipa, Dhaka and Cartagena, among others.
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- http://www.mrjamespodcast.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Literature
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
A podcast dedicated to the ghost stories of M.R. James, hosted by James enthusiasts Will Ross and Mike Taylor. Each episode deals with a particular James story, providing a commentary on its themes, interlaced with readings from the story itself. To add variety the podcast also features interviews with James experts and enthusiasts, reports from conferences and meetings, examinations of the landscapes of Norfolk and Suffolk, thoughts on some of the television adaptations of the stories, as well as diversions into the output of other writers of supernatural tales, including Charles Dickens and Saki.
In late 2016 Ross and Taylor, having completed their investigation into the oeuvre of James himself, announced that they would be delving into some of the ghost stories which inspired James’s own tales of the supernatural, beginning with Daniel Defoe’s ‘The Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal’.
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- Link
- https://search.alexanderstreet.com/avon
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Architecture, Art, Business Studies, Design, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Media Studies, Medicine, Music, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Streaming/Download
Academic Video Online: Premium is the largest and most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 50,000 video titles spanning all academic subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 12,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street. From Jan 1 2016, it includes the new “AVON-to-Own” feature, where subscribing libraries receive perpetual rights to videos they select at the end of each annual term commensurate with the amount of the subscription, using an entire year of usage data to support selections. Subscribing libraries also receive Alexander Street’s Media Hosting Service at no charge.
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- Link
- https://www.youtube.com/theschooloflifetv
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Architecture, Art, Literature, Politics and Government, Social Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses, Streaming/Download
This site is the YouTube channel of an organisation which offers a number of services (in the form of courses, films, books etc.) relating to how ideas from the humanities - literature, philosophy, psychology and the visual arts - can help ‘exercise, stimulate and expand your mind’. Although the focus is on a general audience, and the ethos is towards ‘self help’ rather than academic study, the videos are well-made and could be used in a classroom setting. Featuring simple but effective animations and clearly spoken commentaries, the films (which are usually around 6 - 7 minutes long) are arranged by subject matter, and cover a broad range of subjects from the humanities and social sciences, including the History of Ideas, Sociology, Political Theory, Literature and Art and Architecture. The series on philosophy introduces the basic concepts and ideas of thinkers from Plato, Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to Schopenhauer, Hegel, Wittgenstein and Foucault.
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