Collection Overview: Broadcast Programmes - Open University Digital Archive

Broadcast Programmes

The Open University works with broadcasters such as the BBC to produce television and radio series such as 'Frozen Planet', 'Wartime Farm' and 'Child of Our Time'. The archive collection of these broadcasts includes the programmes and related documentation, such as transcripts, where available. The OU Digital Archive collection of broadcast programmes includes a small sample of the archive. The collection will grow as more content is added.

Title	Description	Date
Science showcase 1 : easing the pain		1993
Science showcase 4 : who calls the shots?		1993
The Shrinking Earth : Television-Global Media ; Wideworld programme 5	Anglia Television/Channel 5 series Wideworld.;N.B. this series consists of a re-versioning of OU...	1996
Deco: The Art of Glamour	This is the first Open University programme to be shown on BBC One and coincides with the opening...	2003
Ice Age		13 October 2004
Beginnings		06 October 2004
Saving Britain's past: the country house	This is the story of the fight to save the Country House. Focusing on Eastnor Castle, in...	26 May 2009
Saving Britain's past: the city	In the last 60 years Britain's historic buildings have been under attack - first from Hitler's...	18 May 2009
Saving Britain's past: the crofters	For centuries the Highlands of Scotland have been in the hands of private landowners but local...	18 May 2009
Saving Britain's past: the pit	In the 1980s while most pits in Britain faced closure one pit, Big Pit in Blaenavon, South Wales,...	04-2009
Saving Britain's past: the market	The Seventies began with a post-Sixties hangover of radicalism and protest, and ended with Margaret...	18 May 2009
Saving Britain's past: streets in the sky	The Park Hill flats were one of the most pioneering public housing projects of Fifties Britain....	18 May 2009
Life : 10. Primates	David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to...	2009
A History Of Scotland: Project Scotland	As a partner in the British Empire, Scotland began the 20th century with an advanced economy and a...	2009
The Love Of Money: The Age Of Risk	The series on the global crash examines the boom years before the bust. With testimony from many of...	2009
The bottom line : series 3 episode 9	The view from the top of business. The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to...	21 November 2009
The Love Of Money: Back From The Brink	In the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared...	2009
A History Of Scotland: This Land Is Our Land	Bringing alive the past, which has shaped modern Scotland, is at the heart of a major new...	2009
Olympic Dreams: 2010 Episode 1	With just two years to go before the Olympic Games hit London, this series follows some of...	2010
The Virtual Revolution: The Cost Of Free	Twenty years on from its invention, Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation of how the World...	2010
The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus?	Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost...	2010
The Virtual Revolution: Enemy Of The State?	Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is...	2010
Olympic Dreams: 2010 Episode 2	In 2012 the Olympic games will be coming to London, and Britain's top contenders are getting ready....	2010
The bottom line : series 20 episode 4 - Outsourcing	Summary	18 June 2015
Britain's fat fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall	Documentary series exploring the obesity crisis. Britain is now the most obese country in western...	14 March 2018
Britain's fat fight with Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall	In this episode, Hugh learns that there are some simple and obvious changes which could be made to...	03 May 2018
Turning tables	Evan Davis and guests discuss why some restaurant chains thrive and others fail. Why are so many...
Who owns British companies?	Foreign ownership of British companies listed on the stock exchange has increased to over 50 per...
The ethics of business	Are 'ethical' businesses all they're cracked up to be? Evan Davis and guests discuss the newest...
Is strategy necessary for success	What is strategy and why do businesses need it? What distinguishes a good strategy from a bad one...
Teenage business Entrepreneurs	As children few of us have had experience of running a business. But this week we'll be hearing...
The EU after Brexit	Radio 4’s Bottom Line and Briefing Room will combine in a special hour-long programme examining...
Economics With Subtitles: How buying Cocaine helps the Government	The surprising story of GDP and whether it's time to change how we measure our economy. Economics...
Economics With Subtitles: Bracelets for Bullets	Why an Essex mum wanted her jewellery melted down and what it says about government debt. Economics...
Economics With Subtitles: How Condoms Can Cost a Week's Wages	Inflation can change your sex life – and pretty much everything else. Economics with Subtitles...
Economics With Subtitles: Coffins Full of Car Keys	In this edition, Ayeisha and Steve make sense of interest rates. Why did they lead to coffins full...
All in the mind: Emotionally unstable personality disorder, Agreeableness and money, Emodiversity	Claudia visits a specialist personality disorder clinic in South London where she meets Jo, Susan...
All in the mind: MDMA for alcohol dependence, Music and sleep, interceptive skill, Parasites and...	Claudia Hammond finds out how MDMA assisted psychotherapy could help treat people with alcohol...
Rewriting rules of business	Business has undergone seismic changes over the past decade; do the rules of business need to be...
Shortages	No supply chain is immune from disruption and shocks. From extreme weather to strikes and cyber...
Plastics	Plastic packaging is big business but it is polluting the world's rivers and the oceans causing a...
Agents	This week the programme looks at the business of agents. What exactly do they do and are they...
Super-premium drinks	There has been an explosion in the number of craft ale breweries and small-scale gin distilleries...
Business in the era of #MeToo	Has the #MeToo movement made businesses change the way they deal with sexual harassment and gender...
All in the mind: Antidepressant withdrawal, Mates in mind, Eyes that betray personality	Antidepressants are a helpful treatment for many, but some people do have problems when they stop...
All in the mind: Citizens UK and mental health, Roobin Ince, Film cuts and attention	A year ago a community organisation in Tyne and Wear called Citizens UK brought together people...
Inside science : Ultima Thule, Dry January, Periodic Table	2019 means the opportunity to explore the most distant object yet encountered in our solar system...
Inside science : Antarctic lake drilling, Birds and climate change, Cold snap, Holograms	Sampling from subglacial lakes under the ice in Antarctica can hopefully tell us a lot about past...
Inside science : Clean Air Strategy, Fast Radio Bursts and Kuba Kingdom	With the publication of the UK Government’s Clear Air Strategy this week, Professor of...
Sprinting Neanderthals, Geodynamo, Spreading Sneezes and Dying Hares	Many physical features of Neanderthals might not be for cold climate adaptation as previously...