Collection Overview: Broadcast Programmes - Open University Digital Archive

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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	More or less, 20, Programme 1. Who are the Libor losers?	"Libor losers How much damage did messing with Libor really do to the financial system? After all,...
	All in the mind : series 54 episode 9 - Physical restraint ; Mind wandering ; Starting a business	Claudia Hammond asks whether the use of physical restraint in mental health services should be...
	More or less, 22, Programme 6. AandE, and the chances of having twins	The news has been awash with headlines about the crisis in AandE departments. More people are using...
	Inside science : Therapeutic hypothermia ; Cameras on Gaia ; Methane ; Wine microbiota	Therapeutic hypothermia is standard treatment for cardiac arrest patients to protect against the...
	More or less, 22, Programme 1. Austerity, Thatcher, Mozart and dead birds	Austerity: a spreadsheet error? Tim Harford tells the story of the student who uncovered a mistake...
	More or less, 23, Programme 4. Do free school meals work?	All pupils at infant schools in England are to get free school lunches from next September, the...
	More or less, 21, Programme 3. Royal twins and the Autumn statement	In light of the Royal pregnancy Tim Harford asks what severe morning sickness tells us about the...
	Inside science : Chemical weapons ; Crowd-sourcing weather ; Fingerprint ID ; Dino drill	As Syria agrees to destroying its chemical weapon stocks, Adam Rutherford looks at how you solve a...
	Inside science : Bacteriophages ; Breath-detecting disease ; Our bees electric ; DNA barcoding	Professor Alice Roberts talks bacteriophages: viruses that infect the bacteria that infect us. With...
	More or less, 20, Programme 2. The Tour de France and the statistics of cheating	Has the Tour cleaned up? The Tour de France reaches its climax this week. Cycling, we are told, has...
	More or less, 19, Programme 1. How many species are going extinct?	It's been claimed that we are experiencing the greatest wave of extinction since the disappearance...
	Inside science : Horsemeat ; NanoSims ; Early bacteria ; Crystallography	Food crime is now big business that criss crosses national boundaries, according to today's report...
	A history of ideas. 24, Barry Smith on Noam Chomsky and human language	Barry Smith argues that language is out most important uniquely human attribute. It doesn't just...
	Inside science : Antarctica weather and climate change; GM fish oils; Melanin fossils; Time travel	Scientists following in the footsteps of Edwardian explorer, Douglas Mawson, have been trapped in...
	The bottom line : series 19 episode 4 - Inventors	Artificial snow, a plastic hairbrush and a non-spill baby beaker: How do you turn an idea into a...
	More or less, 24, Programme 7. The 50p tax rate	Labour say that in the three years where the 50p rate of tax was in place, it raised almost 10...
	More or less, 24, Programme 3. The power of pension fees	When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped, many...
	Inside science : Engineering for floods ; Neanderthal genes ; Switching senses ;Genes in Space game	The warning that floods are likely to become more common, or more severe, won't be a high priority...
	More or less 18: Programme 7	Tim Harford looks at the arguments for high speed rail with railway consultant Chris Stokes and...
	Inside science : Brain machine interfaces ; Question on gay genes ; Studying drinking behaviour	Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis is one of the world's leading researchers into using the mind to...
	Inside science : Women, Science and the Royal Society ; Open access research	Royal Society investigates the decline in their awards to female scientists. Last week, the UK's...
	Inside science : Fracking FAQs ; Fingerprint feedback ; Lipstick forensics ; Snake hook	Fracking is touted as a technology that will lower UK energy bills. It's a controversial technique...
	More or less, 19, Programme 4. Are CEOs worth it?	Are CEOs worth it?This is a question which has been widely discussed this week, after Andrew Moss -...
	The bottom line : series 19 episode 1 - The price of time	How should we price services? By the hour? By results? Or by the difficulty of the task? And what...
	Inside science : DNA to ID typhoon victims ; Volcanic ash ; Hope for red squirrels ; Robogut	Global experts in DNA identification are flying to the Philippines to assess whether they can help...
	A history of ideas. 26, How has technology changed us?	A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Melvyn is joined by four...
	The bottom line : series 19 episode 2 - Trading places	Naked bath bombs, in-store coffee shops and customer satisfaction charts: Evan Davis and guests...
	Inside science : Cosmic inflation latest; Indian space success; Science and language; Wax Venus	BICEP - gravitational waves and dustOne of the biggest scientific claims of 2014 has received...
	Inside science : Bees ; Whales ; Pain ; Gay genes	Bees - Nearly all bees in the UK suffering serious declines. They're mostly threatened by habitat...
	All in the mind : series 54 episode 6 - 1712/2013	Why rituals like blowing out candles on a birthday cake table before eating it can improve the...
	More or less, 23, Programme 5. Are patients 45% more likely to die in NHS hospitals than US ones?	Health service patients are 45% more likely to die in hospital than in the US, the news headlines...
	Inside science : US shutdown ; Nobels ; New climate science ; Airport heart attack headlines	The US has shut down government science with potentially devastating results for American and...
	More or less, 21, Programme 7. The parable of the ox	Tim Harford tells us what a 'guess the weight of the ox' competition tells us about a bloated and...
	Inside science : Personal genome ; Solar cells and music ; Asteroids ; Alfred Russel Wallace	A hundred thousand Britons are being asked to donate their sequenced DNA, their personal genome, to...
	More or less, 21, Programme 2. The art of polling, Kevin Pietersen, stacking lego	On More or Less this week Tim Harford looks at three polls carried out to gauge the public's...
	A history of ideas. 17, Jessica Frazier on creation myths	How did the world begin? In the Old Testament it all starts with an act of God, but where did God...
	A history of ideas. 25, Giles Fraser on Wittgenstein and Blade Runner	Giles Fraser thinks being human isn't a matter of biology or some unique attribute like language....
	More or less, 23, Programme 1. What price the life of a badger?	Has the government taken into account the worth of a badger's life in any cost-benefit analysis of...
	A history of ideas. 30, Archaeologist Matt Pope on tools and human evolution	There's a tiny bone needle at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire. For archaeologist Matt Pope it's hugely...
	A history of ideas. 16, How did everything begin?	A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Each week Melvyn is joined...
	Inside science : Fukushima ice wall ; Martian menus ; Science practicals ; Eye tracker	Dr Adam Rutherford asks whether the proposed ice wall around the Fukushima nuclear plant will...
	The bottom line : series 19 episode 5 - Waiting in line: the business of queuing	The science and psychology of the queue. This week Evan and his guests look at how businesses...
	Thinking allowed: Prostitution in community / Drinking and moderation	Prostitution in the community: The criminologist, Sarah Kingston, discusses her study of the impact...
	All in the mind : series 54 episode 5 - 10/12/2013	Claudia goes behind the scenes of the Science Museum's new psychology exhibition, Mind Maps. How do...
	The bottom line : series 17 episode 1 - Cyber security	The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion,...
	Thinking allowed: Masculinity and betting shops / New biological relatives and kinship	IVF - it's 35 years years since the initial success of a form of technologically assisted human...
	All in the mind : series 56 episode 7 - Perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder ; Mirror neurons ;...	Claudia Hammond investigates an often hidden condition: perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder...
	All in the mind : series 56 episode 5 - 02/12/2014	Driving and distraction from mobile phones - a new study from Canada shows that if someone phoning...
	Thinking allowed: A history of tennis / Talking treatments	Tennis: From Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon. Laurie Taylor talks to life long tennis fan...
	Thinking allowed: Generational divide / Webcam	'Webcam' - the use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more...