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Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...history filmmaking because you capture your image with an optical device, a pair of binoculars, you arrange the image with an editing device or tweezers and then you display your image in a jam jar or perhaps through a television screen. And that early experience of seeing those wild animals when I was a boy of eight or nine, I think, pretty much set my course. What films...
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...family and friends, neighbours, wider communities and those people have with social institutions such as governments, schools or universities. But what happens when things go wrong in social relationships – how do societies deal with that? When social relationships rupture, the forms of formal repair that many Western societies rely on tend to be facilitated through...
Life in Law
Society, Politics & Law

Life in Law

...family lawyers or immigration law advisers? What if you have credit card debt or are faced with an eviction notice and can't afford a lawyer? This collection gives us an insight into the daily lives of those in the legal profession. (NB The legislative process audio podcast contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0.)... The...
Audio 1 hr 6 mins
The stories behind our streets
Society, Politics & Law

The stories behind our streets

...History of Our Streets: London first broadcast on BBC Two, 6th June 2012 and The Secret History of Our Streets: Scotland first broadcast on BBC Two, 25th July 2014. To coincide with the final programme of the first series, Arnold Circus, London, we published some stories behind the streets in Dublin, Ireland alongside Manchester and Sheffield in England, Cardiff in Wales...
The Wizard of Oz: From Fractions to Formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

The Wizard of Oz: From Fractions to Formulas

...History of Numbers Starting in Africa 20,000 years ago, trace the history of numbers through time, including Egyptian use of fractions and the problems of Roman numerals. Complex Numbers Computer generated animations looking at 'Complex Numbers'. Rational and Irrational Numbers Using tally sticks, a cake, a thermometer, a number line and graphics boards, David Brannan and...
Imperial Rome and Ostia
History & The Arts

Imperial Rome and Ostia

...history. Aqueducts in Rome A look at how aqueducts were a great engineering achievement in Imperial Rome. The Aurelianic wall The renewed threat of barbarian invasion led to the construction of the Aurelianic wall - the second fortification in the history of Imperial Rome. Feeding the Roman Empire This track looks at how grain - a staple part of the Roman diet - was...
Earth and Life
Science, Maths & Technology

Earth and Life

...history A look at the geological history of Tibet and the Raymo Ruddiman hypothesis; that chemical weathering increased as the temperature dropped due to the rise in the plateau. Raymo and Ruddiman believed that the uplift of the Himalayas caused global cooling. Tibet: The signifiicance of the strontium ratio The importance of strontium isotopes in chemical weathering, a...
Audio 1 hr 8 mins
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...history of how economic modernity came to be really matters. Historians have been debating this subject for years, and the literature is vast and diverse. But, to simplify for a moment, one could talk of two schools of thought that seem to go “in” and “out” of fashion. One is the view that economic modernity emerged in a rush, in a sudden “Industrial...