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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).
The DNA Files is an American radio series on the ‘genetic revolution’, broadcast on National Public Radio stations. The documentaries and features explore not only the science of genetics, but its ethical, social and legal implications. The site features programme summaries, PDF files of transcripts, and audio excerpts (using Real) from the programmes. There are web links to resources, and some entertaining ‘ethical scenarios’ to explore.
Part of the Library of Congress’s American Memory site, this ‘multiformat ethnographic field collection’ documents a three-month trip through the southern United States by folklorist John Lomax and wife Ruby. The site features 700 sound recordings, field-notes, dust-jackets and other manuscripts, with musical styles represented including blues, ballads, cowboy songs, field hollers, spirituals and work songs. The audio files are available in MP3, RealAudio and Wav formats; a separate listing gives textual transcriptions, and there is a photographic gallery.
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