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 Thinking allowed: Conservatism/ Emotional labour in a care homeConservatism: Roger Scruton, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London, talks to Laurie...
audio record of A history of ideas. 43, Writer AL Kennedy on Sartre and the individualWriter A. L. Kennedy on Existentialist ideas about the individual. Jean Paul Sartre argued that,...
audio record of The managers : episode 2 - Football coach Pia SundhageThere was one moment when Pia Sundhage first came across a football in the small rural town she...
audio record of A history of ideas. 35, Ayn Rand and selfishnessThe Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand believed that behaving rationally meant putting your own...
audio record of Thinking allowed: The 'Precariat'; Humour in sociologyThe 'Precariat': Laurie Taylor talks to Guy Standing, Professor in Development Studies at the...
audio record of The bottom line : series 20 episode 2 - FailureIf your business venture doesn't succeed, how can you be sure it's worth trying again before...
audio record of A history of ideas. 40, Historian Alice Taylor on Habeas CorpusHistorian Alice Taylor explores the idea of justice through history, through the lens of power. Who...
audio record of Thinking allowed: The Ethnography Award 'shortlistThe Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in association with the British Sociological...
audio record of The Philosopher's Arms : series 3 episode 1 - Free ridersPints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a...
audio record of Writers and places:Richard Jefferies
audio record of Raymond Williams : a tributeRaymond Williams died in January this year. His Welsh working-class roots were an important factor...
audio record of Maths into the nineties 6 : algebra and super algebra
audio record of Arts review 1Robert Philip talks to three Open University academics about current events in the Arts which may...
audio record of 1688 : John Locke and the English Revolution1688 marked the beginning of changes in the relationship between parliament and the monarchy....
audio record of Maths into the nineties 5 : a world of symmetry
audio record of Maths into the nineties 2 : algebra on the computer
audio record of New courses 1989Tony Coe talks to two course team chairmen about two new courses for 1989. Geoffrey Warner talks...
audio record of Maths into the nineties 4 : Einstein and beyond
audio record of Ted Hughes and the memory of war
audio record of Maths into the nineties 3 : where's the moon?
audio record of Motorious Carbarian : the law and the motoristThe rise of the motor car in the early part of this century brought an increasing number of...
audio record of New curiosity shop 5 : climates of old
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 4
audio record of New curiosity shop 6 : rock of ages
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 5
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 1(1990)
audio record of New curiosity shop 2 : in search of the narwhal
audio record of Arts Review Round-upThere are three items in this Round-Up
audio record of East German editionThis programme looks at recent events and the current situation in East Germany through interviews...
audio record of Amazons : heroes, outsiders or womenThis is the first of four programmes based on papers given at the OU 'Women in the Arts' seminar...
audio record of New curiosity shop 7 : gender and science and education
audio record of Women and the Church
audio record of Arts Review Round-upJenny Lecoat presents and talks to Cicely Palser Havely, Senior Lecturer in Literature at the Open...
audio record of New curiosity shop 9 : Fullers earth
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 6
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 8
audio record of Mary Taylor : feminist and friend of Charlotte BronteMarv Taylor was born in Yorkshire in 1817. She met Charlotte Bronte while at school and they became...
audio record of The Siege of Derry 1689Three hundred years ago one of the longest and bloodiest sieges of the British Isles began when...
audio record of Arts Review 89
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 1(1991)
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 12(1991)
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 8(1991)
audio record of English is WickedDr. Denis Walder of the Open University talks to Benjamin Zephaniah and Ahmed Sheikh about the use...
audio record of New curiosity shop 11(1991) : silver
audio record of Caribbean Voices
audio record of New curiosity shop 3 (1992) : the biology of ressurrection
audio record of Glasgow : post European City of CultureAngus Calder talks to Simon Frith and David MacLennan as they question the notion of a European...
audio record of New curiosity shop 2(1999) : origins of life
audio record of The singer and the song
audio record of Masculine and feminine