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Music in Code
History & The Arts

Music in Code

...introduction to this album The Decap Cafe Organ The mechanical music manufacturer’s craft - how a robot organ plays music through code. The Pin Barrel What is a pin barrel and how does it create music? The mechanisms of pin barrrels in the Nickelodeon Collection at Ashorne Hall. Street Piano The story of a traditional barrel piano from Warwick, its mechanism and...
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Audio 29 mins
This Sporting Planet
Society, Politics & Law

This Sporting Planet

...introduction to this album. What Sport Tells us About Life Ed Smith, professional cricketer and author of 'What Sport Tells Us About Life' (2008), discusses how and why sport has come to acquire such intense and diverse social meanings. Sport and Change Sue Tibballs chief Executive of the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) focuses on the role of women in sport and their...
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Audio 1 hr 29 mins
Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini
Science, Maths & Technology

Island Arc Magmatism: Santorini

...introduction to this album. Welcome to Santorini The beautiful Greek Island of Santorini, the site of one of the largest volcanic eruptions known to humanity. Dr Steve Blake looks at the structures of the island's volcanic rocks. Santorini's Volcanic History Steve Blake pieces together the volcanic history on the island by closely examining two different kinds of rock....
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Audio 39 mins
Globalisation and health
Society, Politics & Law

Globalisation and health

...introduction to album. The impact of globalisation Globalisation affects public health at many different levels, from the micro scale of virus transmission to the macro scale of world trade. The global-local interface How globalisation destroys borders creating a mutually interdependent world. Players in global health The players in global health, from international...
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Audio 24 mins
Space, Time and Consciousness
Science, Maths & Technology

Space, Time and Consciousness

...introduction to this album Consciousness and the Limits of Science Professor Russell Stannard asks how can we ever understand the relationship between consciousness and the physical brain. Free Will and Determinism All day long we have to make choices. Professor Russell Stannard asks if were really free to choose. Cosmology Professor Russell Stannard explores what kind of...
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Audio 1 hr 49 mins
Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Mo Vernon On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Management with the OU so she knows what it’s like to be an OU student! Mo is a long-standing Associate Lecturer at the OU and has been involved in systems thinking for many years, not just as an AL but also as a residential school tutor and Course Director and through consultancy work across a range of large and small organisations in the Public and Private sectors....
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Audio 15 mins
Learning our way to a better environment
Nature & Environment

Learning our way to a better environment

...managing our environment? This short video looks at developing a more sustainable relationship between humans and the environment...World Environment Day is celebrated on the 5th June each year. Around the world, events and stories are used to highlight the environmental threats and challenges communities face and to celebrate the ways in which they are adapting...
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Video 5 mins
The solar system and the night sky
Education & Development

The solar system and the night sky

...Manager...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses I’m the Curriculum Manager for YXM130 and my favourite characteristic about the module is that it provides you with the option to study what interests you. If I was to study this module, I would be interested in studying courses that would help to expand my knowledge of the solar system and the...
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