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Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...public to crowdsource metadata into our crown jewels, our archive, is a fascinating idea. It’s finding someone to fund it that I think is the real challenge. It’s very easy in our modern day of cuts and rationalisation and all of that to see that as a quaint, passion project and what’s going to be the result of it? I think there may also be, from a BBC point of...
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Video 40 mins
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...publicity, his Europe-wide contacts among influential people, including crowned heads – notably Frederick the Great of Prussia and Empress Catherine the Great of Russia – and above all by his inimitable style, pointedly ironic, forceful, mischievous, malicious and funny. Voltaire never missed his target. He made the authorities, the ecclesiastical perpetrators of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...public imagination. Together with the anti-Vietnam War movement and the counterculture, the civil rights movement has become part of the popular memory of the 1960s, helping to characterise the decade as a period of rapid transformation and upheaval. But how successful, ultimately, was this struggle for racial equality? Was it a radical, revolutionary movement, or...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...health, gambling and alcohol addictions (BBC Sport, 2024). In Activity 2 you will hear from three people, Lowri Morgan, Nick Nicholson and Tim Gardner, who choose to take on extreme endurance challenges. They will explain their own motivations and Greg Roebuck from Monash University will provide an academic’s viewpoint on this key topic within sport and exercise...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...Health Service (NHS) or its equivalent, only after patients have undergone genetic counselling. This is defined as the provision of information and advice about inherited disorders, and includes helping people to: Understand medical facts; Appreciate the way in which inheritance contributes to the disease in question; Understand the options for dealing with the disorder;...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...public funding? What is the relationship between marketing, box office returns and film success? The course will examine these topics in the film industry as it stands today, as well as considering how further changes could impact the industry and its stakeholders. This course material was originally written for FutureLearn in 2015. It was published on OpenLearn in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out
Money & Business

Turning rebellion into money: The upstarts who sell out

...publicity, no matter how offensive (a beer called “Trashy Blonde”, anyone?) – and which attracts some hard questions about corporate culture which don’t suggest a rebellious workplace encouraging freedom of thought. And in the final chapter, there is a rapid move from challenging capitalism to embodying it. It’s not easy trading on rebellion. Monetised, not...
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Article 5 mins
What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the AKP victory mean for Turkey?

...public broadcaster, the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT), which once again displayed blatant favouritism toward the government and Erdoğan. More worryingly still, reports are circulating of vote-rigging. The news agencies announced the results very rapidly. The election was called for the AKP within only a few hours, despite the fact that many votes were...
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