Box of Broadcasts
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) is an on-demand TV & Radio streaming service for education and research. It contains over 2 million broadcasts from over 65 free-to-air channels including BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and more. View a complete list of channels.
BoB offers transcripts, which would be helpful for accessibility, language comprehension, quoting for essays, as well as scriptwriting. Transcripts are fully searchable by keyword
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BOB is an academically-focused system that allows staff and students, at subscribing institutions, to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and search an archive of over 3 million broadcasts.
What can you find on BoB?
As well as searching for tv and radio shows you will find public playlists, many curated by academic staff at UK Universities. Here are some examples that will be relevant to hospitality, events, aviation and tourism students.
Tourism On Screen (Teaching Resource)
This teaching resource by Professor David Martin-Jones, Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, uses clips, quotes and questions around the issues if heritage, diaspora, the environment and city branding.
Documentaries
BoB is great for documentaries that would have been aired on TV and radio shows. Some examples include:
- Living Among the Dragons, BBC News 24 (21/07/2019)
- Report on Tourism in Venice on the BBC Radio 4 show ‘PM’ (15/10/2018)
There are many public playlists, many curated by academic staff at UK Universities.