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.

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	Thinking allowed: Recognising transexuals Nationhood	What drives people to make the often difficult choices to change their bodies and change their...
	Saving species : series 2 - programme 21	Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
	Saving species : series 2 - programme 25	Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
	Thinking allowed: Home at RIBA	What does the idea of home mean to us in Britain? How is that changing, and are those new needs...
	Saving species : series 2 - programme 24	Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
	Thinking allowed: Crack cocaine users Boat race	What is the reality of life for a crack cocaine user in South London? Daniel Briggs' new...
	Thinking allowed: The poor on poverty Radical gardening	Gardening is the epitome of a peaceful pasttime, associated as it is with semi-somnolent suburban...
	Thinking allowed: Politics of alcohol in EnglandCooperation	'Sprezzatura' is an Italian word describing a nonchalant effortless style which conceals the skill...
	Thinking allowed: Kinship	Kinship is a key term in Anthropology. It describes the genealogical and biological ties which bind...
	Histories of Wales : 3. Wales and warfare	Six historians show how a theme they feel passionate about has shaped Wales. Professor Chris...
	Thinking allowed: Working class alienation Nottingham council estate	Laurie Taylor explores new research from this year's British Sociological Association conference....
	Saving species : series 3 - programme 2	Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
	Thinking allowed: Tipping points	Laurie Taylor explores the idea of the tipping point using a multidisciplinary project at Durham...
	A history of ideas. 29, Surgeon Gabriel Weston on medical technology	Surgeons of the distant past were little more than skilled butchers, trying to minimise the agony...
	More or less, 20, Programme 5. How to lose money, fast?	High frequency trading.Last week Knight Capital lost a lot of money very quickly. It was the latest...
	Inside science : Hiroshima radiation, Anthropocene, Bonobo noises, Physicist Henry Moseley	In the 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what are the long term effects of...
	A history of ideas. 27, Writer Tom Chatfield: Has technology rewired our brains?	Is technology making us less human? Writer, Tom Chatfield is an enthusiastic downloader of the...
	A history of ideas. 21, What makes us human?	A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Melvyn is joined by four...
	More or less, 24, Programme 5. Fact-checking obesity crisis claims	Estimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the problem, according...
	Inside science : Pluto images, space elevator, insect migration, imagination app	This summer, the spaceship New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,000mph, snapping photographs as it...
	Breaking science : Rainforests, earthquakes and liquid glass	The Naked Scientists explore archaeologists' revelation that people have been riding on, eating and...
	A history of ideas. 60, Neuropsychologist Paul Broks onWittgenstein	Paul Broks looks at the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the problem of "other minds". How do I...
	Breaking science : Use or lose your dopamine	The team investigates the latest developments in global warming, stem cell research and the effect...
	One planet : Copenhagen Climate Summit	And then it was over. The Copenhagen summit lasted longer than expected, half a day longer in fact....
	The ravens / Alana Valentine	Open University/BBC World Drama. A play by Alana Valentine, winner of the English as a First...
	The climate connection 2009 : episode 1 - Are there too many people on the planet?	As the global population approaches seven billion, concerns are growing that our population may...
	The understanding / by P. G. Morgan	The Afternoon Play presents three dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with...
	More or less, 24, Programme 1. Britain's 80,000 homeless children	Eighty thousand children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the housing charity...
	More or less, 21, Programme 4. The Census, and what is 'rare'?	This week Tim Harford asks why the estimate for the number of Eastern Europeans likely to come to...
	The naked scientists : up all night : Laser hearing, chatty females, clean energy...	The cochlear implant that uses infrared laser light for more complex hearing, clean energy from...
	Digital planet	Gareth Mitchell travels to Copenhagen to explore the innovations behind the Green Lighthouse,...
	Inside science : Brain machine interfaces ; Question on gay genes ; Studying drinking behaviour	Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis is one of the world's leading researchers into using the mind to...
	Inside science : Women, Science and the Royal Society ; Open access research	Royal Society investigates the decline in their awards to female scientists. Last week, the UK's...
	Inside science : Antarctica weather and climate change; GM fish oils; Melanin fossils; Time travel	Scientists following in the footsteps of Edwardian explorer, Douglas Mawson, have been trapped in...
	The bottom line : series 19 episode 4 - Inventors	Artificial snow, a plastic hairbrush and a non-spill baby beaker: How do you turn an idea into a...
	Inside science : Engineering for floods ; Neanderthal genes ; Switching senses ;Genes in Space game	The warning that floods are likely to become more common, or more severe, won't be a high priority...
	More or less 18: Programme 7	Tim Harford looks at the arguments for high speed rail with railway consultant Chris Stokes and...
	More or less, 20, Programme 2. The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating	Has the Tour cleaned up? The Tour de France reaches its climax this week. Cycling, we are told, has...
	More or less, 19, Programme 1. How many species are going extinct?	It's been claimed that we are experiencing the greatest wave of extinction since the disappearance...
	More or less, 24, Programme 7. The 50p tax rate	Labour say that in the three years where the 50p rate of tax was in place, it raised almost 10...
	More or less, 24, Programme 3. The power of pension fees	When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped, many...
	Inside science : Horsemeat ; NanoSims ; Early bacteria ; Crystallography	Food crime is now big business that criss crosses national boundaries, according to today's report...
	A history of ideas. 24, Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and human language	Barry Smith argues that language is out most important uniquely human attribute. It doesn't just...
	More or less, 19, Programme 4. Are CEOs worth it?	Are CEOs worth it?This is a question which has been widely discussed this week, after Andrew Moss -...
	A history of ideas. 16, How did everything begin?	A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Each week Melvyn is joined...
	A history of ideas. 30, Archaeologist Matt Pope on tools and human evolution	There's a tiny bone needle at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. For archaeologist Matt Pope it's hugely...
	Inside science : Bacteriophages ; Breath-detecting disease ; Our bees electric ; DNA barcoding	Professor Alice Roberts talks bacteriophages: viruses that infect the bacteria that infect us. With...
	Inside science : Fracking FAQs ; Fingerprint feedback ; Lipstick forensics ; Snake hook	Fracking is touted as a technology that will lower UK energy bills. It's a controversial technique...
	Thinking allowed: Numbers in global politics / Gay rights and religion in Belfast	The power of 'numbers' in global politics: Laurie Taylor talks to the economist, Lorenzo...
	Thinking allowed: Small scale technology in India / Poverty and 'shame'	Poverty and 'Shame' - shame was once described as the 'irreducible core' of poverty by Nobel...