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 More or less 7: Programme 4
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Virgil 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: Cicero 2BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of More or less 7: Programme 2
audio record of More or less 8: Programme 5Topics covered include health inequality, stress in the workplace, house prices, sentiment, opinion...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Horace 3BBC 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 2Topics covered include the Dungeons and Dragons computer game, company valuation, inflation in...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Herodotus 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: 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: Virgil 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: Homer 4. Lapsed classicistBBC 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 4BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of Things we forgot to remember 3: the Bengal famineOne of the worst catastrophes ever to occur under British rule, the Bengal famine of 1943 cost, at...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Plato 4BBC 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 3Topics covered include mathematics, immigration and crime statistics, company valuation, inflation,...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Plato 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: Virgil 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: Augustine 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: Cicero 3BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of More or less 7: Programme 7
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Euripides 4BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of More or less 7: Programme 8
audio record of Things we forgot to remember 4: TrafalgarNelson's victory of 1805 has lodged itself firmly in the popular imagination, but we have forgotten...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Homer 1. Men, heroes and superheroesBBC 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 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 1BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
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 More or less 7: Programme 6
audio record of More or less 7: Programme 3
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Horace 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 6Topics covered include doctors and the death rate, YouGov polls and the London Mayoral election,...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Thucydides 1BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
audio record of More or less 9: Programme 1The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Ghosts of BerlinIn this programme Laurie explores Berlin, accompanied by Brian Ladd's key sociological text 'The...
audio record of More or less 8: Programme 8The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of More or less 9: Programme 5The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of Material world: TitanIn this programme Quentin Cooper visits Chesil Beach, Dorset and meets Open University scientists...
audio record of Material world: Mount EtnaIn this programme Quentin Cooper visits the erupting eastern flank of Mount Etna in Sicily, meeting...
audio record of More or less 9: Programme 3The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
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 Thinking allowed: Imagination and the suburbsThis programme discusses how our experience of the urban environment, and of the suburbs in...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Gentrification in HarlemThis programme discusses the regeneration of Harlem, once dubbed the 'capital of black America',...
audio record of Thinking allowed: MarseilleThis programme looks at how Marseille survived the race riots of 2005 and 2007, despite it being...
audio record of More or less 9: Programme 2The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Imagination and the countrysideThis programme discusses how our experience of the countryside is shaped by both reality and fantasy.
audio record of Material world: Speckled bush cricketsIn this programme Quentin Cooper joins Dr David Robinson from the Open University as he hunts for...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Imagination and the cityThis programme discusses how our experience of the urban environment is shaped by both reality and...
audio record of More or less 9: Programme 4The programme that investigates the numbers everywhere; in the news, in politics, in life. Topics...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 3Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...