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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qjz5/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
From world leaders to business moguls to entertainers, this long running BBC radio programme offers an insight into influential figures making the news headlines. The podcasts, which are available indefinitely, go back to 2010. Some of the personalities featured in early editions include pop icon Lady Gaga, fashion designer John Galliano and artist Ai Weiwei. Recent editions include, founder of Extinction Rebellion Dr Gail Bradbrook, biochemist Jennifer Doudna, and Sonita Alleyne, who is the first black woman to lead an Oxbridge college.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0lx/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC correspondents investigate global events, developments and issues. The collection is updated daily and episodes are available indefinitely. A vast selection of the programmes broadcast between 2007 and 2014 can be accessed via the Podcast Archive section where they are organised by year. More recent episodes are displayed in chronological order by date of transmission. Subject search is not supported, but this drawback is compensated with the guarantee that any time spend browsing will be rewarded with an interesting find. These include: a 50 minute programme on the controversial video This is America by Donald Glover about gun violence, mass shootings, racism and discrimination in the US; an investigation into Burundi-one of the most secretive countries in Africa, an insight into the little known astronomer George Ellery Hale, a look at robot cars filling our roads in the near future, and a report on the Yaba drug which is produced in Myanmar but consumed in Bangladesh.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r4vz/episodes/downloads
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
BBC series examining the ideas and forces, which shape public policy in Britain and abroad. The programmes are presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics. Recent episodes include How to Kill a Democracy, which looks at how democracies around the world are being dismantled; What are Universities for? which looks at the main purpose of the sector; and Why Are Even Women Biased Against Women, which examines discriminatory attitudes amongst women. There is also The Best of Analysis, where episodes are grouped under specific subject headings including, Economics, British Politics, Global Politics, Political Islam, Education, gender and Identity, Society and Culture, Europe, and Business and Finance.
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- https://audioboom.com/channel/spycast
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- Arts and Humanities
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- Current Affairs, Politics and Government
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- Radio/Sound
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- Archives/Museums, Podcasting
Weekly podcast featuring interviews and programmes with ex-spies, intelligence experts and espionage scholars. Hosted by historian and curator Dr Vince Houghton, and published by Author Debriefings, where the latest intelligence-related novels are discussed; Current Events, which deals with intelligence stories in daily news; Real Spy Stories and Secret History of History. Among the top episodes there is an interview with Sven Hughes, a former reserve soldier within British Military Intelligence, who discusses counter-radicalisation and the effectiveness of influence operations.
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- http://berthafoundation.org/storytellers/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Development Studies, Economics, Education, Environmental Studies, Law, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Funding, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
Bertha Foundation is devoted to promoting social justice by supporting collaborations between activists, storytellers and lawyers. It offers four film funds: the Bertha Film Fund, which gives grants for the creation of social impact documentary content; the IDFA Bertha Fund, which supports documentary filmmakers and festivals in developing countries; the Bertha Doc Society Journalism Fund, which is dedicated to supporting long feature documentaries of a journalistic nature, and The Guardian Berth Documentary Partnership which is currently commissioning a series of 12 short documentary films from independent filmmakers. The site also offers trailers of all the Bertha completed films via their Film Directory section.
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- https://theconversation.com/uk
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Education, Medicine, Nature, Politics and Government, Sports Science, Technology
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- Podcasting, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download
An independent news website sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public. The Conversation launched in Australia in March 2011 and in the UK in May 2013. It is a not for profit educational entity, funded by universities, that aims to rebuild trust in journalism by providing independent, high quality and authenticated information. The articles, written by academics and researchers with some help from professional journalists, are organised by subject areas like in any online version of a broadsheet newspaper: Arts & Culture, Business & Economy, Education, Environment & Energy, Science & Technology, etc. Interestingly, each article displays a disclosure statement indicating the author’s funding and any potential conflict of interest. The Fact Check UK section includes the statement being checked (e.g. ‘Is freezing eggs really ‘extremely unsuccessful’?), the link to its original source, a Verdict and a Review by an academic who gives his/her opinion on whether and why the author of the statement is right or wrong.
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- https://syrianarchive.org/en
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- Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Media Studies
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- Film/Video
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- Databases, Streaming/Download
This database was created by two Berliners to document and catalogue atrocities in the Syrian war. As of March 2017 the site has records of nearly 4,000 separate incidents, accompanied by video footage and indexed according to ten categories, including Violation of children’s rights; Use of illegal weapons; Unlawful attacks and Alleged Civilian Casualties from Russian attacks. The resource is intended for journalists, researcher, human rights organisations, activists and any group with an interest in the conflict. It is also intended to function as a repository of evidence for future historians. The United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, as well as lawyers and activists around the world, have all made use of the archive. This article on the Deutsche Welle website, features comments from the site’s creators, who talk about their reasons for making it, along with some of the problems they have faced, particularly the difficulties of verifying sources in a war zone
Please note: the nature of this resource means that some of the footage is extremely graphic.
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- https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1
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- Social Sciences
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- Business Studies, Current Affairs, Economics
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
Weekly podcast presented by Tim Harford and created by the team responsible for Radio 4’s ‘More or Less’ economics programme. Each episode takes a topical look at statistics and numbers. The episodes are available indefinitely on the BBC iPlayer and are free to download.
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- https://africanarguments.org/?s=podcast
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
A bi-weekly podcast which explores African politics, economics and culture. The podcasts feature contributions from a variety of guests and deal with individual African countries as well as matters relevant to the entire continent. Sponsored by the Royal African Society
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- https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/keywords/european-union
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Economics, Law, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Podcasting, Streaming/Download
Audio podcasts on the European Union from the University of Oxford given by the faculty and visiting academics from Britain and Europe. Recent topics have included why Britain should stay in the EU, economic governance in Europe, Syrian displacement, the acceptance of refugees with physical disabilities, forced migration, and far-right extremism. The information on content accompanying the listings is comprehensive and searchable by keywords.
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