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
Beginnings		06 October 2004
Ice Age		13 October 2004
Life : 10. Primates	David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to...	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
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
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: The Age Of Risk	The series on the global crash examines the boom years before the bust. With testimony from many of...	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: 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
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 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: Enemy Of The State?	Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it is...	2010
The Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus?	Dr Aleks Krotoski concludes her investigation of how the World Wide Web is transforming almost...	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
Inside science : Insects disappearing, DNA Biosensor, Dog faces, Bandit dinosaur	The total biomass of flying insects in the environment has decreased by 75% in the last quarter of...
Climate Change and Health; Moth Snow Storm Feedback; Whale Brain Evolution; Pharoah's Serpent	Adam Rutherford talks to researchers on a major global study that aimed to quantify how climate...
Boy gets New Skin, The York Gospels, Stephen Hawking's Thesis	Researchers in Italy and Germany have saved the life of a boy with a life threatening genetic skin...
Can we forecast earthquakes?, Britain's space race rocket Skylark, Francis Galton	What might the length of the day have to do with the likelihood of destructive earthquakes around...
Prehistoric Strong Women, Semi-synthetic Life, Listener Feedback, Artificial Superintelligence	More than 5,000 years of heavy agricultural labour by women can be read from the bones found in...
Trophy hunting, Gene drives, Nuclear lightning, Peregrine falcons and drones	Trophy hunters are always after the lion with the largest darkest name and the stag with the most...
The Future of Coral Reefs, Little Foot, Arthur C Clarke	Oxford is hosting the European Coral Reef Symposium this week. Climate change is seen as the number...
Antisense RNA therapy, Fossils vs Trump, Printing mini-kidneys, Electric eel power	Promising results from a small clinical trial of Huntingdon’s disease patients have led to...
Ancient DNA and Human Evolution	Twenty years ago, a revolution in the study of human evolution began. A team in Leipzig in Germany...
Tabby's Star, Space 2018, Mosquito sounds, C diff and food additive link	Adam Rutherford talks to astronomer Tabetha Boyajian at Louisiana State University about the wierd...
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...
Inside science : North Korea Bomb Tests, Warming Antarctic Sea Life, the Microbiome, Cuckoo Chuckle	The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea claims to have successfully tested a thermonuclear...
Inside science : Farewell to Cassini, the epic 20 year mission to Saturn
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...
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...
Inside science : HiQuake, Plate Tectonics@50, Sonic Weapon Puzzle, The Chinese Typewriter	Gareth Mitchell talks to Gillian Foulger of Durham University about HiQuake, the world's largest...
Antibiotics and Farming, Molten Metal Pump, Acoustic Biodiversity, Athenia	The agricultural use of antibiotics is contributing to the global spread of resistance to these...
Colliding Neutron Stars, Krakatoa, Centigrade vs Celsius	Adam Rutherford talks to astrophysicists about the astronomical discovery of the year, if not the...
All in the mind: Sarah's runners, Avatars and eyewitness testimony, Untranslatable words	In the first of a new series Claudia Hammond meets the first of the nine finalists for the All in...
All in the mind: Changing mindsets, Exercise to prevent depression, Nathan and Judith	How do our minds view policies that we don't really like, once they become a reality? New research...
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...
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...
All in the mind: Psychosis and medication, All in the mind awards, Challenging antisocial behaviour	Is it possible to take the guesswork out of the prescription of medication for psychosis?...
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...