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 making of modern medicine : 19. The disease is its own preventativeThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 14. Changing disease identityThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 26. You are what you eatThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 10. Anatomy and the invisible handThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of More or less 5: 5. The perversity of randomnessMore or Less took an almost random walk through random numbers. There is enough order to our list...
audio record of Ian McMillan's writing lab : 3. For the stageIan McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 27. It looks like a miracleThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 24. Flinging the Tropics open to civilisationThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 17. The dark side of obstetricsThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 8. Learning from the illiterateThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of Ian McMillan's writing lab : 1. OpeningsIan McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
audio record of More or less 5: 7. Monitoring patient treatments Age perceptions Odometer accuracyIn the shadow of Harold Shipman, the serial killing GP, BBC Radio 4's More or Less reported on...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 4. Paracelsus and the people's medicineThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 13. A long and ghastly kitchenThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 30. TransplantThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of Ian McMillan's writing lab : 5. Creating charactersIan McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 12. Making signsThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 5. The anatomical RenaissanceThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 7. FeverThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 3. The first sexual epidemicThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 9. The coming of the GPThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of The making of modern medicine : 25. Near pavillionsThis Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
audio record of More or less 5: 6. Flying awayThis week on More or Less we presented a "bundle" (that is a rarely-used technical term) of...
audio record of Dr Faustus : CD2Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe; BBC/Open University series Dr Faustus
audio record of Material world : OU summer school - robotsQuentin is in Bath with students on the Technology in Action course. One of their tasks is to...
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 5Topics covered include a controversial UNICEF report from early 2007, weather data and the black...
audio record of Dr Faustus : CD1Based on the play by Christopher Marlowe. BBC/Open University series Dr Faustus
audio record of Click on Episode 3Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology headlines -...
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 8Topics covered include decision making, economic modelling and volcanoes.
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 3Topics covered include government statistics and more on gender and numbers.
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 4Topics covered include 'counting and compassion', and more on gender and numbers.
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 7Topics covered include the metaphor of the '800lb gorilla', the correlation between working women...
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 6This programme looks at social class and life expectancy by investigating the statistics produced...
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 1Topics covered include comparing our numerical skills with that of chimpanzees; drug trials using...
audio record of Material world : OU summer school - geologyQuentin Cooper joins a group of Open University geology students on a field trip to Staithes in...
audio record of Material world : OU summer school - environmentQuentin Cooper visits Malham in the Yorkshire Dales, and joins an Open University residential...
audio record of More or less 6: Programme 2Topics covered include more on animal numeracy; rail safety, women and numbers and medical trials.
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Sappho 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: Euripides 1BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of More or less 8: Programme 4Topics covered include American presidential elections, global warming, pubs, conception and...
audio record of More or less 7: Programme 5
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Euripides 2BBC 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: Cicero 1BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of Click on Episode 5Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Thucydides 2BBC 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: Herodotus 3BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of Material world : OU summer school - psychologyIn the last programme in the series, Quentin Cooper goes to Durham and joins an Open University...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Thucydides 3BBC 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: Plato 2BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of Click on Episode 6Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...