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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video record Science showcase 1 : easing the pain1993
video record Science showcase 4 : who calls the shots?1993
video record The Shrinking Earth : Television-Global Media ; Wideworld programme 5Anglia Television/Channel 5 series Wideworld.;N.B. this series consists of a re-versioning of OU...1996
video record Deco: The Art of GlamourThis is the first Open University programme to be shown on BBC One and coincides with the opening...2003
video record Beginnings06 October 2004
video record Ice Age13 October 2004
video record Life : 10. PrimatesDavid Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to...2009
video record Saving Britain's past: the marketThe Seventies began with a post-Sixties hangover of radicalism and protest, and ended with Margaret...18 May 2009
video record Saving Britain's past: streets in the skyThe Park Hill flats were one of the most pioneering public housing projects of Fifties Britain....18 May 2009
video record Saving Britain's past: the country houseThis is the story of the fight to save the Country House. Focusing on Eastnor Castle, in...26 May 2009
video record Saving Britain's past: the cityIn the last 60 years Britain's historic buildings have been under attack - first from Hitler's...18 May 2009
video record Saving Britain's past: the croftersFor centuries the Highlands of Scotland have been in the hands of private landowners but local...18 May 2009
video record Saving Britain's past: the pitIn the 1980s while most pits in Britain faced closure one pit, Big Pit in Blaenavon, South Wales,...04-2009
video record The bottom line : series 3 episode 9The view from the top of business. The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to...21 November 2009
video record The Love Of Money: The Age Of RiskThe series on the global crash examines the boom years before the bust. With testimony from many of...2009
video record A History Of Scotland: Project ScotlandAs a partner in the British Empire, Scotland began the 20th century with an advanced economy and a...2009
video record The Love Of Money: Back From The BrinkIn the month that followed the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the world stared...2009
video record A History Of Scotland: This Land Is Our LandBringing alive the past, which has shaped modern Scotland, is at the heart of a major new...2009
video record Olympic Dreams: 2010 Episode 1With just two years to go before the Olympic Games hit London, this series follows some of...2010
video record Olympic Dreams: 2010 Episode 2In 2012 the Olympic games will be coming to London, and Britain's top contenders are getting ready....2010
video record The Virtual Revolution: The Cost Of FreeTwenty years on from its invention, Dr Aleks Krotoski continues her investigation of how the World...2010
video record 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
video record The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus?Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost...2010
audio record of The bottom line : series 20 episode 4 - OutsourcingSummary18 June 2015
video record Britain's fat fight with Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallDocumentary series exploring the obesity crisis. Britain is now the most obese country in western...14 March 2018
video record Britain's fat fight with Hugh Fernley-WhittingstallIn this episode, Hugh learns that there are some simple and obvious changes which could be made to...03 May 2018
audio record of Inside science : Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaurThe total biomass of flying insects in the environment has decreased by 75% in the last quarter of...
audio record of Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's SerpentAdam Rutherford talks to researchers on a major global study that aimed to quantify how climate...
audio record of Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's ThesisResearchers in Italy and Germany have saved the life of a boy with a life threatening genetic skin...
audio record of Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis GaltonWhat might the length of the day have to do with the likelihood of destructive earthquakes around...
audio record of Prehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial SuperintelligenceMore than 5,000 years of heavy agricultural labour by women can be read from the bones found in...
audio record of Trophy hunting, Gene drives, Nuclear lightning, Peregrine falcons and dronesTrophy hunters are always after the lion with the largest darkest name and the stag with the most...
audio record of The Future of Coral Reefs, Little Foot, Arthur C ClarkeOxford is hosting the European Coral Reef Symposium this week. Climate change is seen as the number...
audio record of Antisense RNA therapy, Fossils vs Trump, Printing mini-kidneys, Electric eel powerPromising results from a small clinical trial of Huntingdon’s disease patients have led to...
audio record of Ancient DNA and Human EvolutionTwenty years ago, a revolution in the study of human evolution began. A team in Leipzig in Germany...
audio record of Tabby's Star, Space 2018, Mosquito sounds, C diff and food additive linkAdam Rutherford talks to astronomer Tabetha Boyajian at Louisiana State University about the wierd...
audio record of Inside science: African swine fever, Oil spill update, CRISPR gene editing, Rat eradication in New...African Swine fever is deadly to pigs and is spreading west from Russia across Europe. The virus...
audio record of Inside science : North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo ChuckleThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea claims to have successfully tested a thermonuclear...
audio record of Inside science : Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn
audio record of Inside science : Cassini's finale; Science and Technology Select Committee; Crick's lecture; Cave...After last week’s Inside Science’s edition devoted to Cassini ended, the Cassini spaceship...
audio record of Inside science : Gravity wave breakthrough, The antibiotic pipeline, Microbial waste recycling,...The gravitational waves produced by two massive black holes colliding have for the first time been...
audio record of Inside science : HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese TypewriterGareth Mitchell talks to Gillian Foulger of Durham University about HiQuake, the world's largest...
audio record of Antibiotics and Farming, Molten Metal Pump, Acoustic Biodiversity, AtheniaThe agricultural use of antibiotics is contributing to the global spread of resistance to these...
audio record of Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs CelsiusAdam Rutherford talks to astrophysicists about the astronomical discovery of the year, if not the...
audio record of All in the mind: Sarah's runners, Avatars and eyewitness testimony, Untranslatable wordsIn the first of a new series Claudia Hammond meets the first of the nine finalists for the All in...
audio record of All in the mind: Changing mindsets, Exercise to prevent depression, Nathan and JudithHow do our minds view policies that we don't really like, once they become a reality? New research...
audio record of All in the mind: Why is yawning catching? And the nurse who went the extra mile to help her cancer...Claudia hears from Fiona who nominated the nurse who gave her treatment for bladder cancer for the...
audio record of All in the mind: The feel good garden at Chelsea Flower show, All in the mind awards, avoiding stress.Claudia Hammond visits the RHS Feel Good Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. The garden is part of...
audio record of All in the mind: Psychosis and medication, All in the mind awards, Challenging antisocial behaviourIs it possible to take the guesswork out of the prescription of medication for psychosis?...
audio record of All in the mind: KIM in the Awards, Smell blindness, How to find help for your own mental health,...KIM stands for Knowledge, Inspiration and Motivation. It is a mental health group running...