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, 22, Programme 4Tim Harford inspects the claims the UK Treasury and the Scottish government make about the...
audio record of More or less, 22, Programme 2. The true age of your dog, and how much does the EU cost?The UK Independence Party (UKIP) made substantial gains in recent local elections.It's best known...
audio record of The bottom line : series 19 episode 3 - GoldIt's soft, shiny and rare. A symbol of love, of power, of wealth - gold has been prized for...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 6. The great playing field sell off?"Playing the fields. The Olympics were supposed to inspire a generation to take up sport. No...
audio record of More or less, 23, Programme 6. An army of drunk children?Are hundreds of young children visiting A and E because of alcohol? Plus, an update on the...
audio record of More or less, 21, Programme 5. Fact-checking US gun crime statisticsThe recent massacre at a school in the United States has re-opened the debate on gun ownership in...
audio record of Inside science : Bardarbunga volcano; Geology in Minecraft; Synthesising opiods; AmmoniaBardarbungaA group of earth scientists was in Iceland performing annual maintenance of its...
audio record of More or less, 19, Programme 2. The formula that changed the worldThe Long RainThe numbers behind the drought, the hosepipe ban and how much difference recent...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 4. How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen? There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young Chinese...
audio record of All in the mind : series 54 episode 10 - Mental health triage ; Children's self-esteem ; AnxietyClaudia Hammond reports on a mental health triage scheme being run by Leicestershire police force,...
audio record of More or less, 19, Programme 3. A grand economic experiment?A grand economic experiment?Are we witnessing a Grand Economic Experiment being played out between...
audio record of A history of ideas. 22, Simon Schaffer on humans, apes and Carl LinnaeusSimon Schaffer is interested in the human species in general and one member of it in particular....
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 6. Counting the contribution of immigrantsNow the initial furore about Romanian and Bulgarian people being allowed to work in the UK has...
audio record of A history of ideas. 20, Historian Justin Champion on William Whiston's Comet TheoryHistorian Justin Champion on Early Modern Comet TheoryThose who watched in awe as the space craft...
audio record of A history of ideas. 27, Writer Tom Chatfield: Has technology rewired our brains?Is technology making us less human? Writer, Tom Chatfield is an enthusiastic downloader of the...
audio record of A history of ideas. 21, What makes us human?A new history of ideas presented by Melvyn Bragg but told in many voices.Melvyn is joined by four...
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 5. Fact-checking obesity crisis claimsEstimates that half the UK population will be obese by 2050 "underestimate" the problem, according...
audio record of More or less, 24, Programme 1. Britain's 80,000 homeless childrenEighty thousand children will wake up homeless on Christmas Day, according to the housing charity...
audio record of More or less, 21, Programme 4. The Census, and what is 'rare'?This week Tim Harford asks why the estimate for the number of Eastern Europeans likely to come to...
audio record of A history of ideas. 29, Surgeon Gabriel Weston on medical technologySurgeons of the distant past were little more than skilled butchers, trying to minimise the agony...
audio record of More or less, 20, Programme 5. How to lose money, fast?High frequency trading.Last week Knight Capital lost a lot of money very quickly. It was the latest...
audio record of A history of ideas. 28, Historian Justin Champion on Francis BaconHistorian Justin Champion on Francis Bacon's anxieties about the fallibility of technological...
audio record of Breaking science : HIV and superstitionsThe latest research on the origin of the HIV virus, how superstitions are formed and why we think...
audio record of Click : A Route 66 of the future episode 4 Signal failureHave you ever sat in a car that was not going anywhere as traffic ahead of you ground to a halt? As...
audio record of The educators 8 : Salman KhanSal Khan worked as a hedge-fund analyst before he set up the Khan Academy, almost by accident, when...
audio record of The educators 3 : Tony LittleEton College in Berkshire is one of the world's most famous schools. With so many of its old boys...
audio record of Health checkWhat would convince you to change your lifestyle and use less energy? Despite more people than ever...
audio record of The naked scientists : up all night : Laser hearing, chatty females, clean energy...The cochlear implant that uses infrared laser light for more complex hearing, clean energy from...
audio record of Digital planetGareth Mitchell travels to Copenhagen to explore the innovations behind the Green Lighthouse,...
audio record of Inside science : Pluto images, space elevator, insect migration, imagination appThis summer, the spaceship New Horizons sped past Pluto at 30,000mph, snapping photographs as it...
audio record of Breaking science : Rainforests, earthquakes and liquid glassThe Naked Scientists explore archaeologists' revelation that people have been riding on, eating and...
audio record of The climate connection 2009 : episode 1 - Are there too many people on the planet?As the global population approaches seven billion, concerns are growing that our population may...
audio record of The understanding / by P. G. MorganThe Afternoon Play presents three dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with...
audio record of A history of ideas. 60, Neuropsychologist Paul Broks onWittgensteinPaul Broks looks at the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the problem of "other minds". How do I...
audio record of Breaking science : Use or lose your dopamineThe team investigates the latest developments in global warming, stem cell research and the effect...
audio record of One planet : Copenhagen Climate SummitAnd then it was over. The Copenhagen summit lasted longer than expected, half a day longer in fact....
audio record of The ravens / Alana ValentineOpen University/BBC World Drama. A play by Alana Valentine, winner of the English as a First...
audio record of Inside science : Hiroshima radiation, Anthropocene, Bonobo noises, Physicist Henry MoseleyIn the 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what are the long term effects of...
audio record of New curiosity shop 6(1991) : music of the spheres
audio record of New curiosity shop 4(1991) : the year of the dinosaur
audio record of Greek epic poems : two modern versionsThere has been a revival of interest in Greek Epic poetry. In this programme, 'Kings' (Books 1 and...
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 6 (1992)
audio record of Mathematics miscellany Christmas lecture 2(1996) : two mathematical toys
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 3(1996) : one of our scientists is missing
audio record of Mathematics miscellany Christmas lecture 1(1996) : Early mathematical recreations
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 4(1997) : the Wizard of Oz
audio record of Mathematics miscellany 6 (1997) : the pleasure curve
audio record of Click on Episode 6Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology headlines -...
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 More or less 2 : 1 PovertyPoverty - This programme looks at the statistics surrounding poverty and the attempts to alleviate it.