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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video record Money Programme : The Blair rich projectThe announcement has finally been made: the Blairs are leaving Downing Street. But at only 54, will...
video record Money Programme : Bingo your number's up?'The bingo industry generates billions of pounds in stake money, and employs 20,000 people...
video record Money Programme : The chewing gum war'Chewing gum is at the centre of a retail battle between Wrigley, the dominant player in Britain...
video record Money Programme : Virtual world, real millions'More and more people are turning their backs on the real world and instead spending increasing...
video record Money Programme : How green is your high street?'The giants of Britain's high streets are spending hundreds of millions of pounds going green, and...
video record Money Programme : Once more with Ealing"Ealing Studios was one of the most loved names in the history of cinema. Now a new generation of...
video record Money Programme : The fall of BP's Sun KingThis programme follows the career, downfall and resignation of Lord Browne of Madingley, chief...
video record Money Programme : Buy to debt?The programme investigates whether it is still possible to make your fortune by investing in the...
video record Money Programme : The great phone swindleThis programme investigates how hundreds of thousands of people have been cheated into changing...
video record Money Programme : Britain's brilliant ideas boomBritain is becoming a nation of inventors and according to the Intellectual Property Office...
video record Money Programme : Run on the bank: penalty painThis programme is the second part of the Money Programme's high street banks special. It returns to...
video record Money Programme : Last orders for GuinnessThis programme follows efforts of the Guinness brand to reverse the recent decline in UK sales of...
video record Money Programme : FacehookedThe programme follows how the Facebook social networking website is transforming lives and changing...
video record Money Programme : Run on the bank - Northern Crock"Northern Rock is Britain's eighth largest high street bank and until recently was the darling of...
video record Money Programme : Britain's favourite fakes (OU version)The global trade in fakes from DVDs to branded clothes and electrical goods is having a huge impact...
video record Money Programme : Too young to retireWith pressures from inadequate pensions and redundancy growing, ever more people are trying to...
video record Money Programme : Plane crazy - the transatlantic price war?"The new Open Skies agreement between the European Union and the United States, which is to come...
video record Money Programme : Email is ruining my life (OU version)"Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK. That is almost three billion each day. But...
video record Money Programme : Heathrow - ready for take off"It has taken £4.3bn, 60,000 workers and 6 years to build. Now Terminal 5 at Heathrow is less than...
video record Money Programme : The great British share swindle (OU version)"Britain's 10 million small shareholders are being systematically targeted by an international...
video record Money Programme : The AA - rescue or wrong turn?'Has a private equity takeover been good or bad for the AA? Since the private equity firm Permira...
video record Money Programme : Superstar, super-richWith a global economy, successful people in all sorts of professions can now command global-scale...
video record Money Programme : Airfix: Britain's next top model?The programme follows the rebuilding of the Airfix brand by model train firm Hornby. In the 1980s...
video record Child of our time : Divide of the sexesRobert Winston and the Millennium babies return for our long-term study of child development. As...
video record Child of our time : The age of stressRobert Winston and the Millennium babies return for our long-term study of child development. As...
video record Child of our time : 24 hoursRobert Winston and the Millennium babies return for our long-term study of child development. As...
video record The story of maths : 1. The language of the universeThis series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians,...
video record The story of maths : 2. The genius of the EastThis series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians,...
video record The story of maths : 3. The frontiers of spaceThis series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians,...
video record The story of maths : 4. To infinity and beyondThis series looks at the 30,000 year history of maths including the lives of great mathematicians,...
video record Inside the Medieval mind: 3. BeliefProfessor Robert Bartlett, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, investigates...
video record Inside the Medieval mind : 2. SexProfessor Robert Bartlett, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, investigates...
video record Inside the Medieval mind : 1. KnowledgeProfessor Robert Bartlett, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, investigates...
video record Inside the Medieval mind : 4. PowerProfessor Robert Bartlett, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, investigates...
video record Can Gerry Robinson fix the NHS? One year onSir Gerry Robinson believes that any organisation, big or small, can be made to run well... and to...
video record Money Programme : Dirty little secretsCorporate espionage is as old as business itself. But today as technology develops, there has been...
video record Sacred music : Tallis, Byrd and the TudorsIn this programme Simon travels to sixteenth-century England. Through a succession of period...
video record Sacred music : Palestrina and the popesIn this programme Simon travels to Rome to investigate how the music of the Vatican powered the...
video record Sacred music : Bach and the Lutheran legacyIn this programme, Simon's travels bring him to Germany where Martin Luther's Protestant...
video record Child of Our Time 1 : Zero to HeroIn the first programme of this series, Professor Winston finds out if popular adults are marked out...
video record Child of Our Time 2 : Read My LipsIn this episode Professor Robert Winston explores how we develop the art of speech and body...
video record Child of Our Time 3 : The Making of MeIn this episode Robert Winston investigates self-esteem. He finds out how much self-esteem our...
video record The Human Mind : PersonalityProfessor Robert Winston explores how our minds shape our personalities throughout our lives, and...
video record The Human Mind : Making FriendsThis programme investigates the extraordinary way that our minds work to allow us to communicate...
video record The Human Mind : Get SmartThe first programme in the series uncovers what happens in our minds when we learn, remember and...
video record Being Positive : dead unluckyBeing Positive, a two-part investigative Open University/BBC series, examines the nature of the...
video record Being Positive : dead luckyBeing Positive, a two-part investigative Open University/BBC series, examines the nature of the...
video record ArchitectureThe architectural styles that the ancients used were, to a large extent, dictated by the rocks...
video record ArtThis programme relates rocks and geology to the use of pigments in art. Early cave painters began...
video record SaltIn this programme Iain Stewart looks at how salt is central to Mediterranean history. Salt is a key...