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- http://www.jackkerouac.com/home/audio-2/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- American Studies, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, Video Sources, Web Links
This resource is an interactive archive and exhibition space devoted to Jack Kerouac and connected topics, particularly relating to Lowell, Massachusetts, the city of Kerouac’s birth and childhood. There is a nice selection of audio recordings, taken from a large of collection of Kerouac-related material owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The recordings feature contributions from Kerouac’s childhood friends, as well as fellow-writers William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, covering subjects such as Kerouac’s sexuality, the idea of the ‘vision quest’, religion, childhood, life on the road, and, less obviously Kerouac’s similarity to the Fonz from the television show Happy Days.
A small selection of video clips feature Professor Todd Tietchen discussing the first part of The Town and the City, as well as a clip of Allen Ginsberg speaking at UMass Lowell. The audiovisual resources are complemented by links and a bibliography.
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- https://newbooksnetwork.com/
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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, Chemistry, Current Affairs, Dance, Drama, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, Food, French Studies, Genetics, Geography, German Studies, History, Law, Literature, Mathematics, Media Studies, Music, Photography, Physics, Politics and Government, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian Studies, Social Studies, Sports Science, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Podcasting, Reviews, Streaming/Download
This is a useful place to visit to keep track of recently published books in academia and scholarly research. The site consists of a series of podcasts/interviews in which authors and academics discuss their new publications.
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- https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- History, Languages, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting
A fortnightly podcast which offers a chronological history of the English language, beginning with its Indo-European roots and tracing its development via its Germanic origins and relationships to other languages. The podcast’s host Kevin Stroud is knowledgeable and communicates clearly, covering aspects of linguistics, writing, palaeography and ancient history, as well as his core subject. The podcast, which comes out fortnightly, is free and is also available on iTunes.
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- https://www.bbcstudioslearning.com/marketing/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Archaeology, Biology, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Nature, Physics, Politics and Government, Technology
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- Film/Video
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- Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This clip sales site, which replaces BBC Motion Gallery’s Education site, aims to provide short-form educational video, licencing content from the BBC itself as well as a number of partners, including NHK, the Open University and CBS. The collections are divided into eight subject areas: Business and Economics; Earth Sciences; History; Life Sciences; Literature; Mathematics; Social Sciences and Technology. Searching can be narrowed by Collection, Topic, Age suitability and duration and users can save searches and create clip binds. Registration is required before users can search the site.
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- https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/collections/world-war-I
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- History, Literature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Video Sources
This digital archive was launched on the 100th anniversary of the First World War. Featuring contributions from ten national libraries and twenty film archives, there are 500,000 digital objects here, with resources from three big European projects, each dealing with different materials relating to World War One. The site collates material from Stories From the Public, Europeana Collections 1914 - 1918 and The European Film Gateway 1914 projects, as well as including additional items from New Zealand, Australia and America.
The British Library, who have contributed to this project, have created their own World War One educational resource, designed for secondary school and FE teachers and students. This includes 500 newly digitised resources from Europeana 1914-1918, accompanied by newly-commissioned articles by historians as well as teachers’ notes.
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- http://podcast.open.ac.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Biology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Languages, Literature, Mathematics, Psychology, Social Studies, Social Welfare
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- Courses, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
This beta site presents the entire range of podcasts produced by the Open University. The site is divided into three sections: OU Learn, OU Research and OU Life. The OU Learn podcasts are divided into fourteen subject areas from Arts and Humanities to Social Sciences. Within each subject area, the podcasts are further arranged as ‘albums’ consisting of numbered tracks, containing material relevant to OU courses. The podcasts come with transcripts, related links and often feature video material too. Users can subscribe via RSS feed, iTunes, or Miro.
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- https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/easy-french-poetry-french/id127338490?mt=2
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- Arts and Humanities
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- French Studies, Languages, Literature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This free iTunes podcast is presented by Camille Chevalier-Karfis who, in each podcast, reads a French poem twice: once slowly, so that the listener can repeat the lines, and then at a more natural reading pace. She also speaks about the life of the poet, the poem’s language and vocabulary and analyses the text in clear, everyday French. The full text of the poems, as well as much more material - including audiobooks and language lessons - is available to paying subscribers on Chevalier-Karfis’s French Today website, which also includes a blog about French culture, travel, language, humour and cuisine.
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- http://podcastthing.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Art, Business Studies, Current Affairs, Design, Economics, Food, General Science, History, Literature, Media Studies, Music, Social Studies, Technology, Women’s Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- 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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- http://global.oup.com/oxforddnb/info/freeodnb/pod/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Art, Film Studies, General Science, History, Literature
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- 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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- https://tvo.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Education, History, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- 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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