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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audio record of Inside science : Jack the Ripper; Future of Scottish scienceJack the Ripper "identified"Some of us are morbidly fascinated by the legend of Jack the Ripper -...
audio record of More or less, 19, Programme 5. Are 120,000 families responsible for a disproportionate share of...Troubled familiesThe government says it has identified 120,000 troubled families who are...
audio record of Inside science : Antimicrobial soap ; GAIA ; Stone-age jellybones ; AntarcticaAntibacterial soaps and body washes make up an industry worth millions of pounds, but in the USA,...
audio record of Inside science : Menopause ; IPCC ; Fracking feedback ; Particle accelerator ; Zombie chemicalsDr Adam Rutherford and guests explore the scientific mysteries of the menopause after scientists in...
audio record of Inside science : Water on comets ; DNA in Space ; Sounds of the Ocean ; Science in fashionWhere does the Earth's water come from? It's thought that it arrived from space, carried by comets....
audio record of Inside science : Personal genetics kits; Persister cells; Earthquake mapping; ScorpionsFor a couple of hundred quid, one of many companies will send you a kit for sampling your own...
audio record of Inside science : Ancient human occupation of BritainThe ancient inhabitants of Britain; when did they get here? Who were they? And how do we know?...
audio record of More or less, 23, Programme 3. How long can you wait to have a baby?How long can you wait until you try to have a baby? Psychologist Jean Twenge argues that women in...
audio record of A history of ideas. 23, Catherine Edwards on Seneca and facing deathCatherine Edwards wants to introduce you to the Roman Philosopher Seneca. But he's dying. Towards...
audio record of Inside the ethics committee : series 9 episode 3 - Genetic testing in childrenAlan is in his late thirties when he is diagnosed with lung cancer. A genetic test reveals that he...
audio record of Breaking science : Limb length, cancer, freezing water...The team explores how temperature, rather than genetics, regulates limb length in mammals; the...
audio record of Science in actionCLEAN GREEN DRIVING MACHINESThis week we have a special Science in Action as part of the Climate...
audio record of Breaking science : Queen ant impersonators and tall stories...The Naked Scientists explore the chemical link between asthma and eczema that has been uncovered;...
audio record of Click : A Route 66 of the future episode 1At the start of a special six part series on travel and transport - real and virtual - Click takes...
audio record of Inside science : Venus mission, science highlights for 2015, sonotweezers, tsunami 10 years onAdam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science in the news. This week's announcement...
audio record of Breaking science : Bad taste, arsenic and blue skies...The Naked Scientists explore the discovery that super hot, burning chillies can be used for pain...
audio record of The educators 6 : Sugata MitraProfessor Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University, imagines a...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 3. Levelling the playing fieldLevelling the statistical playing field. If you adjust for the fact that some countries are richer...
audio record of More or less, 23, Programme 2. The death toll in SyriaAs global leaders remain divided on whether to carry out a military strike against Syria in...
audio record of More or less, 22, Programme 4Tim Harford inspects the claims the UK Treasury and the Scottish government make about the...
audio record of More or less, 22, Programme 2. The true age of your dog, and how much does the EU cost?The UK Independence Party (UKIP) made substantial gains in recent local elections.It's best known...
audio record of The bottom line : series 19 episode 3 - GoldIt's soft, shiny and rare. A symbol of love, of power, of wealth - gold has been prized for...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 6. The great playing field sell off?"Playing the fields. The Olympics were supposed to inspire a generation to take up sport. No...
audio record of More or less, 23, Programme 6. An army of drunk children?Are hundreds of young children visiting A and E because of alcohol? Plus, an update on the...
audio record of More or less, 21, Programme 5. Fact-checking US gun crime statisticsThe recent massacre at a school in the United States has re-opened the debate on gun ownership in...
audio record of Inside science : Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opiods; AmmoniaBardarbungaA group of earth scientists was in Iceland performing annual maintenance of its...
audio record of More or less, 19, Programme 2. The formula that changed the worldThe Long RainThe numbers behind the drought, the hosepipe ban and how much difference recent...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 4. How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young Chinese...
audio record of All in the mind : series 54 episode 10 - Mental health triage ; Children's self-esteem ; AnxietyClaudia Hammond reports on a mental health triage scheme being run by Leicestershire police force,...
audio record of More or less, 19, Programme 3. A grand economic experiment?A grand economic experiment?Are we witnessing a Grand Economic Experiment being played out between...
audio record of A history of ideas. 22, Simon Schaffer on humans, apes and Carl LinnaeusSimon Schaffer is interested in the human species in general and one member of it in particular....
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 6. Counting the contribution of immigrantsNow the initial furore about Romanian and Bulgarian people being allowed to work in the UK has...
audio record of A history of ideas. 20, Historian Justin Champion on William Whiston's Comet TheoryHistorian Justin Champion on Early Modern Comet TheoryThose who watched in awe as the space craft...
audio record 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...
audio record of 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...
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 5. Fact-checking obesity crisis claimsEstimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the problem, according...
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 1. Britain's 80,000 homeless childrenEighty thousand children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the housing charity...
audio record of 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...
audio record of A history of ideas. 29, Surgeon Gabriel Weston on medical technologySurgeons of the distant past were little more than skilled butchers, trying to minimise the agony...
audio record of 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...
audio record of A history of ideas. 28, Historian Justin Champion on Francis BaconHistorian Justin Champion on Francis Bacon's anxieties about the fallibility of technological...
audio record of Breaking science : HIV and superstitionsThe latest research on the origin of the HIV virus, how superstitions are formed and why we think...
audio record of Click : A Route 66 of the future episode 4 Signal failureHave you ever sat in a car that was not going anywhere as traffic ahead of you ground to a halt? As...
audio record of The educators 8 : Salman KhanSal Khan worked as a hedge-fund analyst before he set up the Khan Academy, almost by accident, when...
audio record of The educators 3 : Tony LittleEton College in Berkshire is one of the world's most famous schools. With so many of its old boys...
audio record of Health checkWhat would convince you to change your lifestyle and use less energy? Despite more people than ever...
audio record of 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...
audio record of Digital planetGareth Mitchell travels to Copenhagen to explore the innovations behind the Green Lighthouse,...
audio record of Inside science : Pluto images, space elevator, insect migration, imagination appThis summer, the spaceship New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,000mph, snapping photographs as it...
audio record of Breaking science : Rainforests, earthquakes and liquid glassThe Naked Scientists explore archaeologists' revelation that people have been riding on, eating and...