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History & The Arts
Behind the camera
When you use film as a historical source, explains Douglas Allen, you must first understand the person behind the camera.
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History & The Arts
How did the USSR react to the bombing of Hiroshima?
A meeting between the US ambassador and Stalin reveals what the Soviets felt about the bombing of Hiroshima - and Churchill's return to the Opposition benches.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
OpenLearn Live: 3rd November 2016
Did a Russian scientist create a zombie dog? No. Learning and research across the day.
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Science, Maths & Technology
OpenLearn Live: 19th August 2016
The poles that allow athletes to vault; and 25 years on from the Soviet Coup. Free learning from across the day.
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Nature & Environment
OpenLearn Live: 25th January 2016
How extreme winters following extreme summers bring misery to Mongolia, and a first attempt to understand how common fat shaming is. Then more free learning through the day.
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History & The Arts
OpenLearn Live: 3rd November 2015
The dog who didn't return from space; then more free learning across the day.
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TV, Radio & Events
OpenLearn Live: 21st September 2015
A state that vanished before dawn; the value of expensive trainers; public fruit trees - and then more free learning across the day.
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History & The Arts
When Heath met Nixon
This declassified memo records the conversations between the UK Prime Minister and US President in December 1971.
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Society, Politics & Law
Why Russia’s flak jackets beat the NATO safety-suit
Putin’s sins will go unpunished abroad because of greater resilience to their financial aftershocks at home, writes Alan Shipman.
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Society, Politics & Law
Moving out the red: The experience of leaving Communism behind
Chris Swader talks about the experiences of moving from a communist to a capitalist society - and why learning to tell untruths was just one of the new skills needed to survive.
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Society, Politics & Law
Why we should remember the Armenians
Next year sees the centenary of the Armenian genocide. Armenia has crucial links to the development of British and world civilisation as Professor Hovhanness I. Pilikian explains.
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TV, Radio & Events
The Rest Is Noise: Art of fear
11/12 May: Music of oppression and war. The Rest Is Noise considers darkest period of death, destruction and cruelty the world had ever seen.