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Radio station search engine, with to over 10,000 radio station web pages and over 2,500 audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
The Radio 4 site provides supporting information to the wide range of programmes produced by the station, but for researchers its most valuable feature is likely to be ‘Listen Again’ , which makes available a selection of documentary and news programmes from the past week (for contractual reasons it is not possible to do this for comedy and drama), including Analysis, From our Own Correspondent, Home Truths, PM, Today and The World at One. Radio 4 Choice is a weekly documentary podcast.
The BUFVC promotes the use of moving images and related media in UK higher education and research. The site includes access to a number of databases: Find DVDs, the Researcher’s Guide Online (RGO), News on Screen (incorporating BUND, the British Universities Newsreel Database), Television & Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT), BoB - Box of Broadcasts, several Independent Radio Collections and TV Times 1955-1985 (TVTiP). There is information on BUFVC courses and conferences, educational films for sale, details of BUFVC publications, and news and events covering the BUFVC and its member institutions.
A largely complete collection of the surviving shows from the 1938 American radio drama show, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman. The complete shows can be streamed or downloaded in RealAudio format (some shows are also available as downloadable MP3s). The site also included the later series sponsored by Campbell’s Soup, The Campbell Playhouse (1938-40). This exceptional resource includes broadcasts of Dracula, Heart of Darkness and the notorious The War of the Worlds which caused a panic throughout America.
Podcasting directory, with a mixed selection of higher education podcast links under its Education section.
The Social Activism Sound Recording Project is a cooperative endeavour developed by radio station KPFA-FM (Berkeley, California), the Pacifica Radio Archives, and the UC Berkeley Library. The goal of the project is to make accessible via the web a unique library of recordings of significant people and events that shaped the politics and culture of the 1960s. The project covers the Free Speech Movement, the Black Panther Party, and Other Activists and Events. The site gives contents details for the recordings held and includes a selection of audio and video clips (using Real). Part of the Media Resources Center at Berkeley.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity is an American radio programme telling the story of how our culture is formed by human creativity. The programme web site houses the transcripts for every episode heard since the show’s inception in 1988. Streaming audio is available on each of the posted episodes (using Real). The wide range of subjects over nearly 2,000 episodes include Leon Theremin, the number zero, windmills, the camera obscura, mind reading, mousetraps and paperclips, the Lunar Society, and Food in Early Texas.
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