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 The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Homer 2. Homer, the BardBBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Tacitus compilation 1-4BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Virgil 2BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of Material world: Methane bogs hot dry rocksQuentin Cooper joins scientists from the Open University who are measuring the exchange of methane...
audio record of More or less 8: Programme 7The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of The Climate connection: 3. Consumption on the couchWhat's stopping us from taking action on climate change? Can research from other fields help us...
audio record of Things we forgot to remember 3: the SuffragettesSuffragettes are now remembered as the acceptable face of direct action, but parts of the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 25Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 12Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 8Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of More or less 15: Programme 8The Health Secretary says you're twice as likely to die from heart disease in the UK than in...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 26Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 22Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 30Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 13Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 4Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere, in the news, in politics and...
audio record of Thinking allowed: The politics of sleep Women who killOne third of us now think we are sleep deprived. Why should that be? Who loses the most and how is...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 5Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Demise of a Welsh steel town Sexual politics of ballroom dancingA special edition marking the British Sociological Association's 60th anniversary. Laurie Taylor...
audio record of Saving species : series 2 - programme 2Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 2 - programme 7Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 4Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere, in the news, in politics and...
audio record of The bottom line : series 12 episode 1The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Saving species : series 3 - programme 19Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Shared planet : episode 4 - Valuing natureHow much is a honey bee worth? Can you put a price tag on a mountain? Monty Don explores the value...
audio record of The bottom line : series 12 episode 2 - ProductsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 10 episode 2 - AutomotiveThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 11 episode 3The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 12 episode 8 - Financial servicesThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 13 episode 7 - Doing business with GovernmentsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Saving species : series 3 - programme 22Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of The educators 7 : Jo BoalerIs our attitude towards maths killing the subject for children? Professor Jo Boaler believes a...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Home at RIBAWhat does the idea of home mean to us in Britain? How is that changing, and are those new needs...
audio record of Saving species : series 2 - programme 25Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of The climate connection 2009 : episode 4 - Travel - good for humanity; bad for the planet?The travel industry – and air travel in particular - is at the sharp end of the emissions...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Home life - 4. Shared homeIs there an age in which people should couple-up and settle down? Laurie Taylor visits the home of...
audio record of Shared planet : episode 1 - The problem of populationMonty Don presents Shared planet, the series that looks at the crunch point between human...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Builders MusiciansBuilding workers constitute between five and ten per cent of the total labour market in almost...
audio record of Breaking science : Mind control, TB...The team discovers how being a silver surfer can help you keep your marbles, how proteins can be...
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 A history of ideas. 54, Psychotherapist Mark Vernon on FreudWhat is love? Psychotherapist Mark Vernon looks at Freud's ideas on the Greek god Eros, which he...
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 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 Free thinking : Riba: the Brits who built the modern worldPhilip Dodd chairs a discussion between Terry Farrell, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw, Michael...
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 A history of ideas. 51, What is love?A history of ideas. Presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Each week Melvyn is joined by...
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 A history of ideas. 53, Theologian Giles Fraser on altruismGiles Fraser discusses gene theory versus altruism with playwright Tom Stoppard whose play The Hard...
audio record of Inside science : Personal genome ; Solar cells and music ; Asteroids ; Alfred Russel WallaceA hundred thousand Britons are being asked to donate their sequenced DNA, their personal genome, 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...