Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an on-demand TV & Radio streaming service for education and research. It contains over 2 million broadcasts from over 75 free-to-air channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and more.  View a complete list of channels.

As well as giving stable, legal access to broadcast content, BoB offers some exciting features for teaching and learning.

• Links to broadcasts or clips can be embedded into presentations, or embedded into Canvas.
• Advanced search: It’s possible to search BoB by subject or program as well as by date e.g. it’s possible to see everything broadcast from a date in time.
• Clips and notes: You can use slider bars on a broadcast to create clips and write annotations on those clips. It’s possible to put these clips into a compilation. No extra software is needed.
• Playlists: Tutors can create playlists, with annotations, and make these available publicly, to a cohort, or keep them private in a workspace. There are over 80,000 publicly available playlists, and it’s possible to search these by curator, keyword, or institution. Playlists can include programmes, individual broadcasts, clips or clip compilations.
• Transcripts: BoB also offers transcripts, which would be helpful for accessibility, language comprehension, and quoting for essays. Transcripts are fully searchable by keyword.

Box of Broadcasts is often known as 'BoB'! So if you hear the term 'BoB' being used by lecturers or library staff, it is not a member of staff or student, but is a fabulous resource of television and radio broadcasts which we encourage you to use in your research.

As well as searching for television and radio programmes you can also find public playlists, many of which have been curated by academic staff in UK universities. Here are just a couple of examples that may be interest to you.

The Library has a range of DVDs in stock including documentaries, films and television programmes. You can search for these on Library Search, and borrow them to watch them at home.

If you do not have your own viewing device, students from any faculty can view DVDs in the David Puttman Media Centre Room 225 (St Peter's campus) - this room is not bookable but is usually available for viewing purposes. On City Campus, if no one is using Room 108 in Library@Murray, you can use the fixed computer in that room to view DVDs via the projector on the large screen.

We have a limited subscription to Kanopy, a streaming film resource. If you are a student or staff member in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and would like to view any films in Kanopy for your study or research, fill in the form you see in Kanopy to request access.

The guide produced by a team from the University of Leicester shares insight into how you can use Box of Broadcasts and TRILT as tools for academic research on broadcast media.