Box of Broadcasts
November 13, 2016 2:10 PM   Subscribe

The recently revamped Box of Broadcasts allows UK users with an academic computer log-in (staff and students to universities and other colleges) legal access to everything broadcast on television and BBC radio since about 2007. All of the BBC, ITV, channel's 4 & 5 and dozens of Freeview stations, the films, dramas, comedies and documentaries. Also includes a Shakespeare database of material broadcast since 1990 (plenty of material from before then is at the BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource).
posted by feelinglistless (7 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: This is super-cool but I think unfortunately too widely blocked. Maybe if there's an article ABOUT the service it could work as an FPP even if people can't access the main content? -- Eyebrows McGee



 
Question: does this include students of the Open University?
posted by Rabarberofficer at 2:17 PM on November 13, 2016 [1 favorite]


!!!!
posted by latkes at 2:22 PM on November 13, 2016


Free passwords?
posted by clavdivs at 2:39 PM on November 13, 2016


Rabarberofficer: Yes it does. Just type it into the institutional list on the log-in page.
posted by feelinglistless at 2:40 PM on November 13, 2016


is this geo blocked?
posted by srboisvert at 3:24 PM on November 13, 2016


I would guess so, if you have the login for access you most likely have access to a login that lets you look like you are accessing it from a uk uni site too.
posted by biffa at 4:36 PM on November 13, 2016


Question: does this include students of the Open University?

Rabarberofficer: Yes it does. Just type it into the institutional list on the log-in page.

The OU is on the list, but when you try to log in: "Your institution does not currently subscribe to BoB."
posted by catchingsignals at 4:37 PM on November 13, 2016


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