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This site is an initiative of the Cornish Audiovisual Archive (CAVA), which seeks to use oral history, music, photography and film to interpret the story of Cornwall, past and present. CAVA is a collection of recordings related to Cornwall, covering agriculture, brass bands, geographical communities, identity, kinship, mining, politics and religion.
The BBC has created a Reith Lectures microsite. At present 194 broadcasts are available, with the earliest recording being Frank Fraser Darling’s broadcasts from 1969. The Reith Lectures were inaugurated in 1948 by the BBC to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Sir John (later Lord) Reith, the corporation’s first director-general. The very first Reith lecturer was the philosopher, Bertrand Russell who spoke on ‘Authority and the Individual’. Among his successors were Arnold Toynbee (The World and the West, 1952), Robert Oppenheimer (Science and the Common Understanding, 1953) and J.K. Galbraith (The New Industrial State, 1966). More recently, the Reith lectures have been delivered by the Chief Rabbi, Dr Jonathan Sacks (The Persistence of Faith, 1990), Jean Aitchison (The Language Web, 1996), Patricia J. Williams (Race and Race Relations, 1997), John Keegan (War and Our World, 1998) Anthony Giddens (Runaway World, 1999) and Onora O’Neill (A Question of Trust, 2002).
A range of streamed audio and video (using quicktime) and downloadable podcasts from Colonial Williamsburg living history museum, whose aim is to interpret the origins of the idea of America, conceived decades before the American Revolution. The video clips include dramatisations of historic moments, illustrations of cabinet-making and coopering crafts; the audio clips include readings of speeches, examples of music, particularly African influences, and thoughts on war from colonial interpreters. The podcasts feature special interviews with historians and curators and presentations on aspects of life in Williamsburg.
A collection of short videos, mostly less than ten minutes in length, organised under the headings ‘People’, ‘Things’ and ‘Happenings’. The ‘People’ videos consist mainly of artists and craftspeople at work or being interviewed, ‘Things’ concentrates of various exhibits and how they were made, and ‘Happenings’ relates to particular exhibitions or events at the museum.
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