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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
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- Art, Biology, Economics, History, Media Studies, Medicine, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The site began by concentrating on explaining the holdings and workings of the BBC Archives, using short videos, accompanied by written text, and frequently-asked questions. Separate pages cover different aspects of the Archive and issues relating to them - television, sound, written, photographic, contributor rights, preservation and cataloguing, test cards and ceefax, the bits between programmes, and the BBC Heritage Collection. Since 2008 the website has diversified to include themed collections of archival radio and TV programmes (streamed complete or as extracts), documents and photographs. Topics currently featured include the Holocaust, Cuba and the Cold War, Doctor Who, WW2 relations with the USSR, Francis Bacon, the birth of the NHS, survivors of the Titanic, and working class life. Also available are the complete series of David Atttenborough’s 1956 ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON and MEN AND MONEY (1964), and the first BBC colour series from 1957, WHAT WE WORE, on the history of fashion. The front Archive page also links to other sections of the BBC website that host archival collections - IN OUR TIME, Radio 3 World Music Archive, WOMAN’S HOUR, World Service Archive, and clips from PLANET EARTH and AUTUMNWATCH in the Wildlife Finder.
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- http://www.biography.com
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, History, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Update, Video Sources, Web Links
Website version of the Biography channel, with 25,000 biographies of the rich, famous and notorious, past and present. There is a useful system of links to related personalities, web links, and filmographies, bibliographies or discographies where appropriate. Many audio and video extracts of programmes are streamed free on the website and the shop section of the site has a large number of the broadcast biographies available for purchase (NTSC format).
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- http://www.pbs.org
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies, Music
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- Film/Video
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- Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
This site highlights the works of the Public Broadcasting Stations (PBS) in America, where there are a total of 349 of them. Founded in 1969, PBS is a private non-profit organisation dedicated to documentary and educational programmes on a plethora of subjects. The site provides scheduling details for its stations throughout the USA but also includes teaching packs and a fair amount of streamed audio and pictures, which range from footage on the World Trade Centre attack to interviews about Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, all organised into ten main topics and then dozens of subcategories. The shop sells DVD versions of a selected programmes.
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- https://www.radiotimes.com/
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Film Studies, Media Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Reviews, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
This very busy site offers electronic versions of both its published TV and radio listings, although covering a fortnight instead of just one week, as well as its Film Guide which can be searched by title or personality. There is a Radio Times Video Archive that streams footage from Radio Times photo shoots (using Real and WMP). The Download section gives direct access to a range of television and radio programmes, some free and some chargeable, from sources including Five, Channel 4, Living and the South Bank Show.
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- http://www.birth-of-tv.org/birth/home.do
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Archives/Museums, Databases, Discussion Lists, Footage Sources, Information Sources, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
The BIRTH Television Archive is one of the major results an EU-funded project within the MEDIA+ programme. It is an extremely rich multimedia, multilingual webportal giving access to audiovisual and textual material (programme schedules, articles etc) on the early days of European Television. The archive was built up by five major European television archives - the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), Nederlandse Instituut voor Beeld and Geluid, Radio Télévision Belgique Française (RTBF) and Südwestrundfunk (SWR). There are three different access layers to the resource: the general public, the academic community and television professionals, each available through free subscription. Everyone who visits BIRTH can access the low-resolution programme clips, photos, programme guides, articles, the timeline, the Knowledge Based Articles and the European Studies Network. The academic community has special access to the European Television Studies Network. This is a searchable database consisting of institutes and academics who are involved with the history of European television. The participating academics and institutes are able to upload and maintain their own listing so that it always remains up to date. For television professionals the BIRTH portal functions as a platform for the exchange and selling of high-resolution archive material, done on a bilateral basis between the two parties.
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- http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/trilt/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Film Studies, Media Studies, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources, TV/Radio listings, Video Sources, Web Links
TRILT is the most comprehensive online listings of television and radio programmes on all major channels receivable in the UK, including regional variations. Listings data is available several days in advance of transmission and will build up as an archive of programme information, going back to 1995. Selected programmes of value to HE/FE are enhanced and there are weblinks and indications of sources of post-transmission videotapes, including the BUFVC’s off-air recording backup service. BUFVC members can now use it to order their off-air requests dependent on their individual entitlement options.
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- https://www.surrey.ac.uk/national-resource-centre-dance
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Dance, Drama
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Information Sources, TV/Radio listings
The National Resource Centre for Dance is a non-profit national archive and resource provider for dance and movement based at the University of Surrey. The site has a very basic description of its various collections, which include video and sound holdings, though there is no title list available online. There is also a listing of forthcoming dance programmes on British TV and radio. There is also information on courses and conferences.
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- http://www.itv.com
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings, Web Links
Includes television listings for ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and ITV1 HD, and programmes may be viewed live via the Watch ITV section of the website. The ITV Player allows recent programmes and full series to be viewed on demand up to 30 days after broadcast.
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- http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Botany, Nature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
This site is an invaluable resource for researchers and academics. There is a thorough news section covering ecological issues, conservation updates and news on wildlife issues both in the UK and abroad. Separate sections on animal, plants and UK wildlife. On-line director of academic and research councils, charity and support organisations and conservation projects. Special features on BBC documentaries, and listings of upcoming television and radio programmes.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Drama, Music, Radio Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, TV/Radio listings
The inevitably huge Radio 3 website of course includes listings for the BBC’s classical music and arts radio channel, but there is a rich array of supporting information in the sections on Classical, Jazz, World and New, Arts and Drama, including sound and video clips, and sections devoted to individual programmes. Particularly welcome is the Feature Archive on past programmes. The live broadcast is also streamed from the site. The schedules were heavily revamped in 2007.
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