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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	The singer and the song
	New curiosity shop 7(1999)
	Sex in the UK : Is sex education working?	Sexual health issues enter the classroom in this programme, under discussion will be 'how effective...
	More or less 1: 4. Nature and fraud Pensions Immigration	Nature and fraud: In More or Less this week we looked at the strange mathematical law that seems to...
	The Other Medicine : Why is CAM so popular?	Is the popularity of CAM simply a new age fashion for everything 'natural'? Does its focus on the...
	The Other Medicine : Fit to practise	Could the problems of delayed diagnosis or dangerous advice be avoided with tighter regulation and...
	The Other Medicine : How do we find out if it works?	There's no shortage of people who'll tell you that CAM works for them. But anecdote is not the same...
	Ian McMillan's writing lab : 1. Openings	Ian McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
	The making of modern medicine : 4. Paracelsus and the people's medicine	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The size of borrowing 'Masters of measurement' Healthy workout Mean mistakes	The size of borrowing - In More or Less this week we asked a simple question about Gordon Brown's...
	The making of modern medicine : 13. A long and ghastly kitchen	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	Ian McMillan's writing lab : 5. Creating characters	Ian McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
	The making of modern medicine : 12. Making signs	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	More or less 2 : 2. Passive smoking Missing women Auction winners	Passive smoking - This week More or Less stuck its head into an argument clouded by certainty. Few...
	The making of modern medicine : 30. Transplant	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The making of modern medicine : 7. Fever	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The making of modern medicine : 3. The first sexual epidemic	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The making of modern medicine : 25. Near pavillions	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The making of modern medicine : 9. The coming of the GP	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	More or less 5: 6. Flying away	This week on More or Less we presented a "bundle" (that is a rarely-used technical term) of...
	Material world : OU summer school - psychology	In the last programme in the series, Quentin Cooper goes to Durham and joins an Open University...
	Things we forgot to remember 1: the Spanish Armada	So you think Francis Drake and his bowls ended the Spanish Armada threat...? Actually, it's not...
	Ian McMillan's writing lab : 4. Making use of the poetic form	Ian McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
	More or less 5: 4. Still waiting for treatment US elections	On More or Less this week, we reveal the data that asks questions of the government's record on...
	More or less 6: Programme 2	Topics covered include more on animal numeracy; rail safety, women and numbers and medical trials.
	The making of modern medicine : 20. Stopping the rot	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	Ian McMillan's writing lab : 2. Life writing	Ian McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
	Ian McMillan's writing lab : 6. Thrillers	Ian McMillan introduces a series of entertaining and inspirational fifteen minute programmes aimed...
	Click on Episode 1	Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology headlines -...
	The making of modern medicine : 6. The early transfusion experiments	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	Material world : Future of chemistry: special edition from OU's science summer school at York...	Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their...
	Material world : Special edition from OU science summer school at Heriott-Watt University	Quentin Cooper reports on developments across the sciences. Each week scientists describe their...
	The making of modern medicine : 16. Science has no sex	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	More or less 5: 1. Diet and bad behaviour Economic perceptions	In the start of a new series, we go behind a study investigating diet and criminal behaviour. Also,...
	The making of modern medicine : 2. God's house, the hospital	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The making of modern medicine : 28. Free at the point of need	This Radio 4 series covers over 2000 years of medical history and draws on a vast range of original...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Herodotus 2	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	Click on Episode 4	Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...
	Click on Episode 3	Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...
	Click on Episode 2	Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Homer 3. Homer's world	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Tacitus compilation 1-4	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Horace 2	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Plato 1	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Homer 1. Men, heroes and superheroes	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Euripides 3	BBC Radio 3's The Essay strand explores the origins of Western culture. Greek and Latin voices is...
	Things we forgot to remember 4: Trafalgar	Nelson's victory of 1805 has lodged itself firmly in the popular imagination, but we have forgotten...
	Things we forgot to remember 3: the Suffragettes	Suffragettes are now remembered as the acceptable face of direct action, but parts of the...
	More or less 14: Programme 3	Tim Harford and the team investigate more numbers stories including how maths is taught in primary...
	More or less 16: Programme 2	We are frequently told that young people have never had it so bad. They can't get on the housing...