Library: Film and Media: Useful websites and links

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is ashared online off-air TV and radio recording service which enables all staff and students from Staffordshire University to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ TV and radio channels. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely (no expiry) and added to a growing media archive, currently at over 1 million programmes.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
Watch, record, create clips, search for upcoming programmes by title or keyword, compile favourite shows into playlists and share them with others.
Only available in the UK

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How to use BoB Video guides on how to search, clip and extract content from BoB
BoB Frequently Asked Questions
A link to a few selected programmes featuring cinema
A link to a few selected programmes featuring sound and music
Stars, Stardom, and Representation: a BoB playlist The study of stars opens up many avenues to explore issues of representation; from considerations of race and ethnicity to examinations of class, gender, sexuality and national identity. Although stars frequently become extraordinary icons, they are also ordinary individuals, reflecting national and cultural characteristics. This playlist includes particular stars that are useful to consider in relation to these issues.
National and Transnational Spanish Cinema: a BoB playlist It is not always easy or productive to set the boundaries of a national cinema. Spanish-language films and professionals are involved in national and transnational production. Here are films made in Spain, produced by Spanish producers elsewhere and transnational films where Spanish film professionals take part. There is audiovisual material to help to contextualise the study of Spanish-language cinemas. Curated by Nuria Triana Toribio, Professor of Hispanic Studies, University of Kent,
Stanley Kubrick, A Life in Documentaries - a BoB playlist
A link to a few selected programmes featuring journalism and reporting
Creative Immersive Storytelling and Human Trafficking: a BoB playlist Human Trafficking involves over 21 million people around the world and generates an estimated $150 billions worth of trade. This playlist includes programmes which investigate the issue of human trafficking and present the findings in a traditional factual format.

Some LinkedIn Learning courses to support screen and media

Some external websites

Screen and media

BBC Radio Times 1923-2009 (Genome Project) This link opens in a new window
This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.

BBC Rewind
The Rewind website allows people to explore thousands of films from the BBC news and current affairs archive for the first time. This unique collection shows life and events across the UK since the 1940s.