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 Shared planet : episode 2 - Can we save it all?A giant hamster in Alsace provides Monty with a puzzling dilemma, how do we decide what to...
audio record of The bottom line : series 10 episode 1 - CapitalismThe 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 3 - Boardroom battlesThe 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 3 - Big egosThe 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 8 - LeadershipThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 14 episode 4 - FoodThe 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 10 - RuthlessnessThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Saving species : series 3 - programme 14Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Organised crime in the UKOrganised crime in the UK - how has it changed? Professor Dick Hobbs, joins Laurie Taylor, to...
audio record of Saving species : series 3 - programme 10Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Birth of Neo-Liberalism Music, race and differenceNeo liberalism - its genesis and development. Laurie Taylor talks to Daniel Stedman Jones, the...
audio record of The bottom line : series 15 episode 3 - Digital marketplacesThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 17 episode 9 - RecallsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of All in the mind : series 56 episode 4 - Airport security ; Attitudes to psychosis ; Walking happyHome Secretary Theresa May says the UK is facing a terror threat "perhaps greater than it has ever...
audio record of All in the mind : series 56 episode 6 - Hoarding disorder ; Unfitness to plead ; Mood phone appsStockpiling possessions and collecting obsessively can tip into Hoarding Disorder, a condition...
audio record of Thinking allowed: British working class gardens / Why England fails at footballGardens of the British Working Class - the historian, Margaret Willes, considers the remarkable...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Illicit worlds of Indian dance / War : what is it good for?'Illicit' dance in India.
audio record of Thinking allowed: Race in police disciplinaries / Protestant fishermen in ScotlandRace in police 'misconduct' proceedings - Laurie Taylor considers new research exploring the...
audio record of The bottom line : series 14 episode 6 - Managing in a crisisThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Shared planet : episode 6 - Living with carnivoresMonty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at the crunch point between human...
audio record of The bottom line : series 17 episode 4 - The Muslim poundThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Rime of the globalised mariner / BBC-BSA ethnography award winnerThe winner of Thinking Allowed's first Ethnography award, in association with the British...
audio record of Thinking allowed: The British hitman / History of the kissKissing - a cultural history. How do we make sense of the kiss and why did it become a vital sign...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Ethnography award shortlistThe Ethnography award 'short list': Thinking Allowed, in association with the British Sociological...
audio record of The bottom line : series 16 episode 5 - Self improvementThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 14 episode 9 - Investor relationsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of All in the mind : series 56 episode 2 - 1:4 and stigma ; Emotional brain training ; Clio Barnard"One in Four" has been a prominent slogan in campaigns to reduce stigma and discrimination against...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Small scale technology in India / Poverty and 'shame'Poverty and 'Shame' - shame was once described as the 'irreducible core' of poverty by Nobel...
audio record of A history of ideas. 13, Neuropsychologist Paul Broks on morality and the brainThe eighteenth century writer Jeremy Bentham thought that telling right from wrong as simple:...
audio record of A history of ideas. 8, Vicky Neale on the mathematics of beautyMathematician Vicky Neale is keen to explain why mathematics is beautiful but also to work out...
audio record of The bottom line : series 16 episode 3 - TV FormatsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 16 episode 2 - MBAsThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 14 episode 8 - WaterThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of A history of ideas. 11, How can I tell right from wrong?A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices. Melvyn is joined by four...
audio record of All in the mind : series 56 episode 9 - Musical hallucinations and mental healthClaudia Hammond finds out how neuroscientists are understanding musical hallucinations by looking...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Post-Katrina New Orleans / Capitalist personalityPost-Katrina New Orleans: how disaster recovery became a lucrative business.
audio record of All in the mind : series 54 episode 3 - Special Anniversary programmeIn this special anniversary programme Claudia Hammond looks at developments in neuroscience and how...
audio record of The bottom line : series 18 episode 6 - Live long and prosperVery few companies survive for centuries. Evan Davis hears from a luxury jeweller, a removals firm...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Elite graduates in UK and France / Surnames and social mobilitySurnames and social mobility - How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and...
audio record of The bottom line : series 18 episode 1 - The saviour returnsThe best person for the job? Evan Davis hears from four bosses who took back control of the...
audio record of A history of ideas. 5, Neuroscientist Paul Broks on free will and the brainPaul Broks tackles an age-old philosophical argument over whether humans have free will or whether...
audio record of All in the mind : series 54 episode 2 - 25th Anniversary programme (2)The first ever edition of All in the Mind was broadcast 25 years ago. In the second of three...
audio record of The bottom line : series 17 episode 6 - Mental healthThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of The bottom line : series 17 episode 7 - Second-hand tradeThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Russia's upper class / Flip flopsFlip flops: the world wide trail of an everyday commodity. Laurie Taylor talks to Caroline Knowles,...
audio record of A history of ideas. 4, Theologian Giles Fraser on religious freedomTheologian Giles Fraser thinks freedom is overrated. It has become a kind of tyranny or obsession....
audio record of The bottom line : series 14 episode 7 - Futurology for businessThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Dying in prison / Rio, protests and the World CupRio, protests and the World Cup.
audio record of Thinking allowed: Sociology of sleep / Islamaphobia and Anti-SemitismIslamophobia and Anti-Semitism - similarities and differences. Comparisons of anti-Semitic and...
audio record of The bottom line : series 16 episode 9 - Serving the super-richThe view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...