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 God's housesA look round the newly built Croydon and District Synagogue with Rabbi Philip Ginsbury and...
audio record of Literary Criticism - a users guide : Eagleton and beyond
audio record of Literary criticism - a users guide : the 19th century critics
audio record of Religious Art Works
audio record of God's houses
audio record of Literary critics and literary criticism : the 18th century
audio record of God's houses
audio record of New curiosity shop 7(1996) : Piltdown Man laid to rest
audio record of New curiosity shop 5(1996) : explaining Galapagos - Part 2
audio record of New curiosity shop 4(1996) : explaining Galapagos - Part 1
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 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 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 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 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 weird...
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 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 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 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 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: 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: 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 The EU after BrexitRadio 4’s Bottom Line and Briefing Room will combine in a special hour-long programme examining...
audio record of Is strategy necessary for success?What is strategy and why do businesses need it? What distinguishes a good strategy from a bad one...
audio record of Do corporate headquarters still matter?The tech giant Apple has just spent five billion dollars building a campus in California's Silicon...
audio record of Teenage business EntrepreneursAs children few of us have had experience of running a business. But this week we'll be hearing...
audio record of The ethics of businessAre 'ethical' businesses all they're cracked up to be? Evan Davis and guests discuss the newest...
audio record of All in the mind: Emotionally unstable personality disorder, Agreeableness and money, EmodiversityClaudia visits a specialist personality disorder clinic in South London where she meets Jo, Susan...
audio record of All in the mind: 30th anniversary, Incivility of politicians, Arctic scientist's mental health
audio record of Inside science : Antarctic lake drilling, Birds and climate change, Cold snap, HologramsSampling from subglacial lakes under the ice in Antarctica can hopefully tell us a lot about past...
audio record of Inside science : Ultima Thule, Dry January, Periodic Table2019 means the opportunity to explore the most distant object yet encountered in our solar system...
audio record of All in the mind: Citizens UK and mental health, Robin Ince, Film cuts and attentionA year ago a community organisation in Tyne and Wear called Citizens UK brought together people...
audio record of All in the mind: Antidepressant withdrawal, Mates in mind, Eyes that betray personalityAntidepressants are a helpful treatment for many, but some people do have problems when they stop...
audio record of All in the mind: Self-care, Schadenfreude, How maths ability might relate to ball-catching skillsWhat is self-care and what's the evidence that it works for anxiety and depression in young people?...
audio record of Super-premium drinksThere has been an explosion in the number of craft ale breweries and small-scale gin distilleries...
audio record of AgentsThis week the programme looks at the business of agents. What exactly do they do and are they...
audio record of Business in the era of #MeTooHas the #MeToo movement made businesses change the way they deal with sexual harassment and gender...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Conspiracy theoriesConspiracy theories: Laurie Taylor talks to Thomas Konda, Professor of Political Science at SUNY,...
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 6 (1993)
audio record of Why the Enlightenment
audio record of David Norris and James Joyce's DublinDavid Norris, Senior Lecturer in Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and an expert on the life...
audio record of New curiosity shop 11 (1990) : weightlessness in space
audio record of Spanish Performing Arts in 1992June Harben reports from Spain about the Spanish performing arts, its successes in 1992 when Spain...
audio record of New curiosity shop 6 (1993) : can you really dissolve a human body in acid?
audio record of What was it all about Alfie? : censorship in the swinging sixtiesDr Tony Aldgate of the Open university discusses the liberalisation of censorship during the...
audio record of New curiosity shop 5(1992) : under the volcano
audio record of New curiosity shop 11(1992) : search for extra-terrestrial intelligence
audio record of New curiosity shop 4 (1993) : something succulent
audio record of New curiosity shop 13 (1993) : the Hawking phenomenon
audio record of New curiosity shop 13(1992) : tale of four students