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- Link
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hg8dq
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Radio Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
Archive on 4, previously The Archive Hour, is a BBC Radio 4 series which compiles audio clips from the station’s archives around a different theme in each edition. A variety of guest speakers, with a connection to the week’s subject, present the show. An archive of past editions (from 2010) is available on BBC iPlayer. Topics are wide-ranging: recent episodes (July 2015) include ‘Spoken Like a Woman’ in which Anne Karpf explores the way in which women have shaped the sound of British radio; ‘Destroyer of Worlds’ which discusses how Britain discovered the first atomic bomb, only to lose it to the Americans, and ‘The Devil’s Horn’ in which jazz musician Soweto Kinch talks on the history of the saxophone.
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- http://www.mckellen.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Drama, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Reviews, Streaming/Download
The website of actor Ian McKellen, one of the first actors in Britain to establish his own website and blog. The site is comprehensive and informative on his work on stage, screen and radio. Some radio performances are streamed, there are clips from some films and television programmes and links to Amazon where a film or television production is commercially available.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- http://www.wellesnet.com
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Blogs, Information Sources, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Founded in 2001 by Jeff Wilson Wellesnet is an online source of definitive and thoroughly researched information about the life, career and work of Orson Welles. A filmography provides links to DVD retailers. Select scenes and rare footage are streamed (for example VOODOO MACBETH (1936) at the Federal Theatre. Screenplays are available online. Many radio plays and appearances are streamed including the Mercury Theatre in the Air series. There is a messageboard giving information about unfinished films, retrospectives, books and DVD releases and links to other websites with relevant content.
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- http://www.paleycenter.org/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- American Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Blogs, Streaming/Download
The Paley Center for Media is a not-for-profit cultural organisation based in New York and Los Angeles, which is dedicated to fostering an ongoing dialogue about the significance of television, radio and new broadcasting technologies on the lives of media professionals and the public. The centre’s media collection contains over 160,000 television and radio programmes and advertisements, searchable through an online database which offers synopses, along with production credits for the programmes. Although most of the collection is not online there is, nonetheless, a lot of freely available interesting audiovisual content, made accessible via a selection of curated online exhibitions on the site’s Perspectives on the Collection page. This page feature hand-picked clips and programmes chosen by the centre’s curatorial team, which are presented with contextual essays and notes. The range of subjects covers the whole spectrum of US media history - particularly the post-war period, with interesting items on everything from the media’s role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, to a history and appreciation of Rod Serling’s classic science fiction series The Twilight Zone.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- https://publicdomainreview.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Art, Film Studies, Literature, Radio Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
An online journal dedicated to celebrating and disseminating interesting public domain content. The strength of the collection lies in its scholarly but imaginative curatorial focus, which is on the ‘surprising, the strange and the beautiful’. The site’s content is organised according to Image, Audio, Film and Books. The moving image content features newsreel clips, fiction films, home movies, industrial and public information films and propaganda films. Each film is accompanied by a short contextual essay, giving the provenance of the clip, and links to its parent archive, copyright information and download options. There is a search function but the site is really designed for browsing and it is easy to become absorbed in the gems on offer.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- http://www.pebblemill.org/
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Media Studies, Radio Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Video Sources
This excellent resource documents the history of Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, from the building’s opening in 1971 to its demolition in 2005. The site features video interviews, stills and text about the history of the studios, with contributions from production staff, including directors, editors, producers, writers and camera operators. Amongst those interviewed are David Rudkin, who wrote the acclaimed Play for Today ‘Penda’s Fen’, who talks here about working with director Alan Clarke.
Searchable Transmission lists give a chronology of drama broadcast from BBC Pebble Mill between 1972-200. The listings include drama series Thirty Minute Theatre, Playhouse and Play for Today, listing transmission date, writer, producer and director. A slight caveat for users is that the material is presented in the form of a blog, so that entries are arranged chronologically, which can make searching difficult. The material is, however, broadly arranged in three categories: ‘Building’, ‘Television’ and ‘Radio’. The site was created by Vanessa Jackson, who worked at Pebble Mill from 1987 to 2004. She is currently (2014) Degree Leader in Television at Birmingham City University: the site is part of a research project to document programme making in the regions, and was been funded by Screen West Midlands. For copyright reasons no footage from the original BBC programmes is available on the site.
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- Link
- http://soundeffectspodcast.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology
- Subject
- Media Studies, Music, Radio Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Series of podcasts created by a sound designer and musician who goes by the alias SFX Ninja. Each episode addresses the process involved in the recording of sound and the creation of sound effects, offering advice on, for example, on how to record bird sounds and create chirping sound effects. Other episodes address ‘historical’ sound effects, video games and kitchen noises: others look at the challenges involved in recording bathroom noises and insect sounds. The podcasts also make an effort to contextualise the process, and include information about the history of sound effects and recording technology, as well as addressing the mixture of technological and creative skill needed. The overall tone is chatty and anecdotal but backed up by real expertise. Each podcast includes free sound clips and effects to download.
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- Link
- https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Music, Nature, Physics, Radio Studies, Technology
- Medium
- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
This popular American radio programme about science and philosophy is aimed at an audience of general listeners and is characterised by its innovative sound design. Each podcast takes a broad theme, such as Parasites, Placebo or Games and takes an exploratory, associative approach to the subject, aiming to stimulate curiosity rather than reach a definitive conclusion about the chosen topic. Each show is divided into several parts, featuring interviews with experts and occasional ventures into audience participation and ‘thought experiments’. The programme’s host Jad Abumrad is a trained musician and his background as a composer is evident in the podcast’s approach to sound, where music, speech and effects overlap, forming an integral part of the programme’s experimental, freewheeling ethos.
Other Online Moving image Audio
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- Link
- http://www.radio.cz/en
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- 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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- Link
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00f6hbp/episodes/player
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- American Studies, Art, Current Affairs, Economics, Ethnology, Film Studies, Geography, History, Music, Politics and Government, Radio Studies, Religious Studies, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
Alistair Cooke’s first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast by the BBC in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the longest-running talk programme of any radio station in the world. The 920 surviving recordings, broadcast between 1946 and 2004, are now online. The can be searched by date and by theme, the latter including such categories as US presidents, race, music & movies, history and so on.