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 Things we forgot to remember 1: the Battle of Britain'So you think the Battle of Britain was the defining moment in preventing a German invasion...?...
audio record of Material World 3 : Food safetyThe outbreak of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly referred to as 'mad cow disease',...
audio record of More or less 4 : 4. Searching for patterns in friendshipsIn this week's More or Less we look at one of the most famous measures of our social networking,...
audio record of Connecting : network failure'Ian is on his first trip to Africa, his employers sending him to work as an IT trainer in a media...
audio record of The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Juvenal 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: 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: 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: Horace 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 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 5Topics covered include health inequality, stress in the workplace, house prices, sentiment, opinion...
audio record of More or less 8: Programme 2Topics covered include the Dungeons and Dragons computer game, company valuation, inflation in...
audio record of Click on Episode 2Click On is topical, taking the listener behind the week's most intriguing technology. This week...
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 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 The Essay: Greek and Latin voices: Homer 3. Homer's worldBBC 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 More or less 7: Programme 7
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 19Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of The Climate connection: 4. The new leadersWhat's stopping us from taking action on climate change? Can research from other fields help us...
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 More or less 15: Programme 1We look at the numbers behind the increase in the cap on undergraduate tuition fees in England. Are...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 40Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 32Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 17Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Catholic police officers in Northern Ireland Facebook cultureIn the wake of the murder of Ronan Kerr, a Catholic police officer in Omagh, Laurie talks to Dr...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Street life Performing politics in the squareIn 1905 Russians gathered at 6 different points to march on the Winter Palace and the streetscape...
audio record of More or less 16: Programme 5This week we present a cornucopia of wedding-related numbers, including: Why we predict a jump in...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Surnames Average income - median income War, politics and superheroesLaurie Taylor talks to Marc DiPaolo and Matthew Sweet about the relationship between war, politics...
audio record of More or less 14: Programme 2Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers behind the news.
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 38Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 6Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Migration Music and politicsLaurie Taylor explores impartiality in TV political interviewing and he examines how the colour...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Race and the seaside The brainLaurie Taylor examines the limits of science and the machine age with writer Bryan Appleyard and...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 11Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of More or less 15: Programme 2Local government funding: why everything depends on Wokingham. Inflation: who came up with the 1-3%...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 5Tim Harford takes apart a rogue statistic on domestic violence which has been circulating since the...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 1Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere, in the news, in politics and...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 2Tim Harford examines how the arithmetic behind sustainable energy adds up, asks whether putting in...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 20Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 2Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 18Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 14Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Saving species : series 1 - programme 15Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...
audio record of Thinking allowed: White collar crimes - 2. Regulation of crimeIn a series of special programmes in association with the Open University, Laurie Taylor explores...
audio record of More or less 13: Programme 2Which would win in a fight - a shark or a toaster? Tim Harford finds out in this week's More or...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Muslim women's basketball Still lifeIs tradition under threat from capitalism, or are we overly negative about the cultural impact of...
audio record of More or less 10: Programme 3Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers everywhere, in the news, in politics and...
audio record of Thinking allowed: Household breakup in New Orleans Remembering CommunismHurricane Katrina led to the compulsory evacuation of all the residents of New Orleans. They were...
audio record of Writing the century: 1948-1953 starting from scratchA series written for the drama slot in Woman's Hour on Radio 4, telling the story of the twentieth...
audio record of Saving species : series 2 - programme 4Saving Species on BBC Radio 4 explores biodiversity, conservation and natural history, both in the...