Open University Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• An A to Z of English
• The Academy of Waste?
• Acid Politics
• The Ad Factor
• After the Genome
• After the Genome

  Genetic code of humans.

• After the Revolution
• Alaska: The Last Frontier?
• Angelica Kauffman
• Animal Physiology: A Time to Be Born
• Animated English: The Creature Comforts Story
• Apples, Risks and Recriminations
• The Arch Never Sleeps

  How massive structures such as Gothic cathedrals, which were built of stone but using very little mortar, have survived for centuries.

• The Argument From Design
• Art: A Question of Style
• Art in Australia
• Art in Australia: Postmodernism and Cultural Identity
• The Art of Breathing
• The Art of the Restorer
• Asteroid Hunters
• Asteroid Hunters
• Asthma and the Bean
• Athens: Democracy for the Few
• Attack on the Wires
• Auntie's Big Adventure
• The Authentic and Ironical History of Henry V

  History, patriotism and propaganda collide in this story of our obsession with reconstructing the past.

• Bangkok: A City Speaks
• The Baptistery, Padua
• The Battle for Congress
• Behind a Mask

  Looking for common threads to the lives and work of six women writers.

• Behind a Mask

  The lives of six women writers.

• Berlin: Unemployment and the Family
• Berlin: Unemployment and the Family
• Big Money in Kentucky
• The Birth of Calculus
• The Birth of Calculus

  Discovery of calculus.

• The Black Triangle
• Blue Haven
• The Bobigny Trial
• Breaking The Seal: Church Courts
• Breaking the Seal: Criminal Records
• Breaking the Seal: Domesday
• Breaking the Seal: Land Records
• Breaking the Seal: Military Records
• Breaking the Seal: Tax Records
• Brief Encounter
• Bringing Home the Bacon

  A Cumbrian boar farmer travels through Europe to discover how the Common Agricultural Policy has changed farming, food and the countryside.

• Britain and Germany
• Building by Numbers
• Building the Perfect Beast

  A focus on 'Frankenstein' - how and why does Mary Shelley's creation continue to exert such power over our collective imaginations?

• The Care Industry
• Catalysts Against Pollution

  A look at the use of high-tech solutions for curbing vehicle emissions.

• The Celebrated Cyfarthfa Band
• The Census

  The answers to the questions on the census form help local authorities plan their services.

• The Challenge: The Riddle of the Tay Bridge Disaster
• The Challenge: To Engineer a Million
• The Challenge: To Rebuild the Human Body
• Changes in Rural Society: Piedmont and Sicily
• Changing Berlin: Changing Europe

  Political and social change in Berlin.

• Chardin and the Still Life
• The Chemistry of Creation

  An offbeat exploration of the role chemistry plays in the creation of life.

• The Chemistry of Creativity

  Exploring the relationship between art and science.

• The Chemistry of Power

  A double-edged relationship exists between chemical knowledge and military, commercial and political power.

• Children First
• Children First
• Chinese Cultures
• Church and Mosque: Venice and Istanbul
• Cine Cinephiles
• Cinema For the Ears
• Cities in a Hurry
• Cities in a Hurry

  Kuala Lumpur.

• Citizens of the World
• The Civil War: Endgame
• Civil War: Nick of Time
• Civil War: The Breakdown
• Civil War: Total War
• Classical and Romantic Music: Putting on the Style
• Classical Sculpture and the Enlightenment
• Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut?
• Clayoquot Sound: The Final Cut?
• The Clinical Psychologist
• Code and Catastrophe
• Coming Home
• Coming Home

  Journalist Agnieszka Rakoczy.

• Coming Home to Banaba
• Composing George Fenton in Conversation
• Containing the Pacific
• Cool Hand Luke
• The Copulation Explosion
• Cosmic Recycling
• Cosmic Recycling

  Death of a star.

• Cosmology on Trial
• The Cretaceous Greenhouse World: Poles Apart
• Cultures of the Walkman

  How the Sony Walkman has been designed, redesigned, marketed, and produced to become a cultural icon.

• The Cutting Edge of Progress
• Daisyworld
• Daisyworld

  James Lovelock.

• Danger: Children at Play
• Danger: Children at Play

  Bullying.

• The Dangers of Powerful Neighbours
• Danish Energy
• Deaf-Blind Education in Russia
• Declining Citizenship
• Defining Moments

  The funerals of Sir Winston Churchill and Diana, Princess of Wales, illustrate how Britain has changed.

• Design for an Alien World
• Design for an Alien World
• Designer Rides: The Jerk and the Jounce
• Designing a Lift
• Developing Language
• Development Aid
• Dialogue in the Dark
• Difference on Screen
• Difference on Screen
• A Different Way of Learning

  Studying at the OU.

• Does Science Matter?
• Driving While Black
• Duccio: The Rucellai Madonna
• Dynamic Analysis
• Edison: The Invention of Invention
• Encyclopedie

  The great 18th-century French encyclopaedia.

• The End of the Race Against Time
• Energy From Waste
• Energy Through the Window
• An English Accent

  A study of received pronunciation, the English accent associated with prestige and privilege.

• An English Education
• An English Education

  Teaching English.

• English, English Everywhere
• English Is Not Enough
• English Only in America?
• The Enlightenment: Reason and Progress

  A look at the 18th-century period of Enlightenment and the origins of the social sciences.

• Ensembles in Performance
• Environmental Solutions?
• Euripide's Medea
• The Euro Beat
• The Euro Beat
• The Euro Beat
• Evaluating Preschool Education
• Evaluating Preschool Education

  Early education.

• Ever Wondered?
• Ever Wondered?

  Space tourist.

• Ever Wondered?

  Mediterranean diet.

• Ever Wondered?

  Why music makes people tingle.

• Ever Wondered?

  Rubbish.

• Ever Wondered?

  Cornish countryside artists.

• Ever Wondered?

  Love junkies.

• Ever Wondered?

  Tamara Beckwith.

• Ever Wondered?

  Gardens.

• Ever Wondered?

  Great artists.

• Ever Wondered?

  Influential grass-roots action.

• Ever Wondered?

  Dinner the 15th-century way.

• Ever Wondered?

  Secrets behind Vermeer's paintings; re-creating the past in Handel's London home.

• Ever Wondered?
• Ever Wondered?

  History of the Venice carnival.

• Ever Wondered?

  Clever clothing.

• Ever Wondered?

  The pros and cons of celebrity.

• Ever Wondered?

  High art and high street.

• Ever Wondered: Is Utopia a Pointless Dream?
• Experiments and Energy
• Extracts From Dialogue in the Dark by Michael Ignatieff
• Eyewitness Memory
• Family Ties: The Story of Adeline Yen Mah
• Final Frontier
• Finding a Balance
• Finding a Voice: Alex and Leigh

  Two children experience sudden brain trauma.

• Finding a Way: Bowbridge and Great Bardfield
• Finding a Way: Luke, Carl and Matthew

  Exploring attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

• Finding a Way: Marni and Renee
• Flexible Work: Insecure Lives
• Flexible Work: Insecure Lives

  Workers adapt.

• Flexible Work, Insecure Lives
• Following a Score
• Forecasting the Economy
• Forest Futures
• Fortress Britain

  Immigration policies.

• Fortress Europe

  Germany's border with Poland is the front line for war refugees.

• France in the Viewfinder

  How photographers helped rebuild a sense of French national identity after the Second World War.

• Frederick the Great and Sans Souci

  What does this palace near Potsdam reveal about Prussia's philosopher king?

• Free Body Diagrams
• The French Revolution
• The French Revolution: Impact and Sources
• From a Different Shore: An American Identity
• From Here to Modernity
• The Front Desk
• The Front Desk
• Fuelling the Philippines Tiger
• Fuelling the Philippines Tiger

  Protecting their environment.

• Galapagos: Research in the Field
• Gender Matters
• General Interest: A Living Doll -- A Background to Shaw's Pygmalion
• Getting It Right
• Giotto: The Arena Chapel
• Gitto: The Arena Chapel
• Given Enough Rope

  The modern rope - a piece of materials engineering, and a technical marvel.

• Glastonbury Tales
• The Glastonbury Tales
• A Global Culture?
• Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game?
• Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game
• Global Fantasy 2: The Irresistible Rise of the Computer Game
• Global Finns, Shrinking Worlds
• Global Firms in the Industrialising East
• Global Firms, Shrinking Worlds
• Global Tourism
• Global Warming: Global Policy?
• The Golden Thread
• Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station
• Gothic in India: Bombay Railway Station

  Victoria Terminus Station.

• Greenberg on Jackson Pollock
• Groupware: So What?

  Increasing reliance on computer systems to move information around affects the business world.

• Hack the Planet
• A Hard Act to Follow
• Hard Questions, Soft Answers

  Key people from the history of object computing explain what software objects are, and how they were invented.

• Hard Rock Cafe
• Harlem in the '60s
• Healthy Living ... Back to the Future
• Hearing the Call
• Hidden Power
• Hidden Visions
• Home and Away

  How can the risks of chemicals be balanced with the benefits they bring?

• Housing: Business as Usual

  The housing markets in Britain and Germany.

• How We Study Children
• Hubbard Brook: The Chemistry of a Forest
• Human Rights
• Humanity and the Scaffold

  The impact of Enlightenment thinking on the gruesome penal systems of 18th-century England and France.

• Images of Disability
• Images of Disability
• Images of Education
• Images Over India
• Imagining New Worlds
• Imagining the Pacific

  Examining the different ways people have thought about the Pacific region.

• In Pursuit of Pleasure at Home
• In Search of Identity
• In Search of Vector Spaces
• In Search of Vector Spaces
• In the Nick of Time

  A young MEP forces a piece of telecoms legislation through Brussels in record time.

• In Tune With America
• Independent Living
• The Information Society
• Informer, Eduquer, Divertir?
• Inspection by Torchlight
• Introduction to Psychology: Two Research Styles

  Two contrasting methods used by psychologists to study people's behaviour.

• It Futures
• It's Only Plastic
• Jazz, Ragga and Synthesizers
• Jean Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Retreat to Romanticism

  Philosophy on his life.

• Jets and Black Holes
• Jets and Black Holes

  Mysterious phenomena.

• Jump Over Your Shadow

  The economical impact of the reunification of Germany.

• Just an Illness
• Just Like a Girl
• Just Like a Girl
• Just Seventeen: The Geometry of Patterns
• Kedleston Hall
• Keeping Watch on the Invisible
• The KT Event
• La Bonne Formule
• Lab Detectives
• Landfill For the New Millennium
• A Language for Movement
• The Lapedo Child
• Large-Scale Production
• Le Corbusier and the Villa La Roche
• Learning to Care
• Learning to Love Grey
• A Lesson in Progress?
• Lie of the Land: Three Revolutions in Mapping
• Linkage Mechanisms
• Listening in the Dark
• Living With Risk
• Living With Risk

  Modern labour market.

• Long Remembered Hills
• Look What Happens in Hospital
• Looking at What Happens in Hospital
• Looking Glass World
• Los Angeles: City of the Future?
• The Lyonnais: A Changing Economy

  Tracing the industrialisation of the Lyonnais region in 19th century France.

• The Magic Flute
• Making Astronauts
• Making Contact
• Making the News
• The Man Who Loved Trees
• Management in Chinese Cultures

  The success of the Chinese approach to business may have lessons for the West.

• Management in Chinese Cultures

  The continuing success of the Chinese approach to business may have lessons for the West.

• Manchester Divided!
• Mapping the Milky Way
• Mapping the Milky Way

  The secrets of our galaxy.

• Meaning in Abstract Art
• Meaning in Abstract Art

  Development of abstract art.

• Mexico City: Whose City?
• Mexico City: Whose City?
• A Migrant's Heart

  Theatre director Jatinder Verma traces roots in the search for home.

• Mind Readers
• Mind Readers

  Televised experiments.

• Missing the Meaning?
• Modelling in the Long Term
• Modelling in the Long Term
• Modelling in the Motor Industry

  A look at how motor companies such as Ford and Toyota use economic models to forecast their market positions.

• Modernist Primitivism: Gauguin and Pontaven
• Molecular Engineers
• Mondrian
• Moral Panics: The Agony and the Ecstasy

  Britain's youth culture provokes moral panic.

• Mosaico Hispanico
• Moscow: A City in Transition
• Moscow: A City in Transition
• Mother Knows Best
• Mr. Moore Runs for Washington
• Musee Du Louvre
• The Museum of Modern Art
• The Museum of Modern Art

  Influential art institutions.

• Music and Place: In Tune With America
• Music of Mali

  The story of Mali's best-known musicians reveals a rich history of diverse musical traditions.

• Music to the Ear
• My Favorite Things
• My Favourite Things: Looking at What Things in the Living Room Reveal About the Owner
• Mystery of the Marriage
• The Myth of Medea: Authenticity in Greek Tragedy
• Nathan the Wise
• Nathan the Wise

  Extracts from the play.

• Natural Navigators
• A New Sun Is Born Part 1: The Coup
• A New Sun Is Born Part 2: The Revolution
• A New Way of Life
• New York: Making Connections
• New York: Making Connections

  Networks.

• News and the Democratic Agenda?
• News Stories
• News Stories

  News programs.

• No Lay-bys at 35,000 Feet

  A look at how materials are chosen for three vital parts of an aeroplane: the airframe, the tyres and the engine.

• No Place to Hide
• The North Sea: Managing the Common Pool

  A look at how environmental problems in the North Sea are handled.

• Oceanography
• On Pictures and Paintings
• Open Advice

  The three degrees. Students discuss taking a higher degree.

• Open Advice
• Open Advice: A Different Way of Learning
• Open Advice: Exam Success
• Open Advice: Staying on Course
• Open Advice: Study to Succeed
• Open Advice: The Three Degrees
• Open Advice: The University Without Walls
• Open Advice: The University Without Walls
• Open Advice: The University Without Walls

  Personal accounts.

• Open Advice: Time for You
• Orsanmichele

  Florence's shrines.

• Orsanmichelle
• Our Invisible Sun
• Out of Development
• Out of the Melting Pot
• Ozone: The Hole Story
• Pacific Studies: Patrolling the American Lake
• Packaging Culture
• The Palazzo Pubbtico, Siena

  A tour of Siena's great medieval town hail, built to honour and beautify what was one of Italy's wealthiest city states.

• Paper
• Paris and the New Mathematics
• Partnerships
• Passing Judgements
• The Passion for Distinctiveness
• Pathfinding in the Brain: A Fish and Bird's Eye View
• Persisting Dreams

  What was Byron really like and how did he influence later Romantics such as Delacroix and Verdi?

• Personal Passions
• Personnel Selection
• Philosophy in Action
• Picasso's Guernica
• Picturing the Modern City
• Play and the Social World
• Plugging In to the Sun
• Plus Ca Change
• Poetry and Landscape
• Population Transition in Italy
• The Poverty Complex
• Power and Vision: The West and the Rest
• Powers of the President
• Private Lives
• Problems With Patterns
• The Programmers

  The history of computing - from hardware and software to programming.

• The Programmers

  History of computing.

• Psychology in Action
• The Publicity of Oxygen
• Putting Training to Work: Britain and America
• Putting Training to Work: Britain and America

  Unemployment.

• Putting Training to Work: Britain and Germany
• Putting Training to Work: Britain and Germany
• Pyramids, Plato and Football
• The Qualifications Chase
• Quality Care

  A look at getting the right daycare for young children.

• A Question of Identity: Berlin and Berliners

  Berlin and its people evolve from the time of Napoleon's arrival to World War I.

• The Rainbow

  Properties of rainbows.

• Raising Arms Against Air Pollution
• Rapid Climate Change
• Rapid Climate Change
• Refining the View

  Examining the many uses of mathematics, from erecting bamboo scaffolding to monitoring the survival of an endangered dolphin population.

• Reflections on the Global Screen
• Reindeer in the Arctic
• Reinventing the City

  Examining the forces that have shaped the redevelopment of New York and Los Angeles during the last 30 years.

• Relationships: Social Sciences
• Relative Risk: The Human Genome Project
• Renaissance Secrets
• Rich Mathematical Activities
• The Rinuccini, Florence
• Risk

  Statistics in relation to taking risks.

• A Robot in the Parlour?
• Romans in Britain
• The Roof of the World
• Running the Planet
• Samples of Analysis
• A School for Our Times?
• Science Shack
• Science Shack

  Jacuzzi; champagne.

• Science Shack
• Science Shack

  Flying machines.

• Science Shack

  Buildings protected against lightning.

• Scotland in the Enlightenment

  The buildings and art of 18th century Scotland reflect social and political thought during the Enlightenment.

• Seal Secrets

  Examining the physiology behind the diving abilities and feeding habits of grey, common and elephant seals.

• The Search for Reality
• The Search of Reality

  Albert Einstein.

• The Secret of Sporting Success
• The Secret of Sporting Success

  Mathematic guide.

• Secrets of Sporting Success

  Mathematical guide to achieving sports success.

• Seeing Through Maths

  A brief history of mathematical models, revealing how people use everyday maths to describe and control their world.

• Sensing Intelligence

  A look at what constitutes intelligence in machinery.

• Ships and Boats and Strain
• Shooting Video History

  How to get more out of a video camera by using it to record the life and times of family or community.

• Shooting Video History
• Sickle Cell: A Lethal Advantage
• Siena Cathedral

  The story of one of Italy's greatest ecclesiastical buildings dramatically illustrates Siena's rivalry with Florence.

• The Signature of Life
• Simple Beginnings
• Slaves and Noble Savages
• Smithson and Serra: Beyond Modernism?
• Soaring Achievements
• Soaring Achievements
• Software Surgery
• Software Surgery
• Somewhere a Wall Came Down
• Sounds of Paradise
• A Source of Inspiration
• South Korea: The Struggle for Democracy
• The Spanish Chapel, Florence
• Spanning Materials
• The Spiral of Silence

  Investigating the reasons why opinion polls failed to predict the result of the 1992 General Election.

• Statistical Sciences
• Strike a Light
• The Sunbaskers

  Although they can't heat themselves, reptiles are by no means cold-blooded.

• Surviving Cities
• Surviving Cities
• Swedish Science in the 18th Century
• Sydney: Living With Difference
• Sydney: Living With Difference

  Transforming Sydney into a cosmopolitan city.

• Synthesis of a Drug

  A focus on how chemists set about developing a new kind of painkiller.

• Taking Off
• A Tale of Two Capitals: Paris and Rome

  Napoleon's new Paris, modelled on Ancient Rome, ironically becomes the inspiration for changes in the Italian city.

• Talking About Care
• Talking Buildings
• Talking Buildings

  Virtual reality.

• Tax Rules OK?
• Television to Call Our Own
• Theory and Practice
• Theory and Practice
• They Did It Their Way
• This True Book of Ours: The Human Body
• The Three Degrees
• Time for You
• To Build the Fastest Round-the-World Yacht
• To Create the Duchess's Water Garden
• The Train to Cluj-Napoca
• Transforming the World
• Trend Trackers
• The True Geometry of Nature
• Under the Walnut Tree

  An exploration of the integrated approach of one community school that provides primary education for children of all needs and abilities.

• A University Without Walls
• Unusual Suspects
• Valued Environments, Environmental Values

  How 19th century campaigners fought to preserve the character of the English Lake District.

• Velocity Diagrams
• Venus Unveiled
• Virtual Democracy
• Virtual Democracy

  Internet in democratic involvement.

• A Vunerable Life
• A Wall Came Down
• Wallace in Wales
• Was Anybody There?

  Seances in Victorian society.

• Water Is for Fighting Over
• Wayang Golek: Puppeteers of West Java
• We the Peoples: Democracy and the UN

  Changing role of the UN since the end of the Cold War.

• We the Peoples: Democracy and the UN
• The Web Weavers
• Welfare for All?
• Well Connected
• Wembley Stadium: Venue of Legends
• Wendepunkte
• West Africa: Art and Indentites
• What Is Religion?
• What's All This Fuss About It
• What's Right for Children?
• The Wheels of Innovation
• The Wheels of Innovation

  The concept.

• Which Body?
• Who Belongs to Glasgow?

  The recreation of Glasgow's international identity in response to a changing economy over the last century and a recent tourism programme.

• Whose History Is It Anyway?
• Whose Web Is It Anyway?

  Software companies fight to control the World Wide Web.

• Why Do Peacocks Have Elaborate Trains?
• Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands
• Wild Moves
• Women and Allegory: Gender and Sculpture
• Women at the Wire
• Women in Science and Technology

  Looking at why more women than ever before are turning to science and technology for rewarding study and careers.

• Women of Northern Ireland
• Wood, Brass and Baboon Bones
• Words and Music
• The World Network

  Examining how and why India is becoming a force in the new global software market.

• The World Network
• The World of the Dragon
• The Write to Choose
• Yes, We Never Say No