Maps
One Direction. Disorientation. Audio, 14 minutes
Author Jerry Brotton explores the story of the four cardinal directions.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted29 March 2022
Biff and Chip. Series 1, Nice Neighbours. Video, 11 minutes
Biff and Chip try to be the nicest neighbours, but their competitiveness ends in disaster.
- AttributionCBeebies
- Available for over a year
Witness History. The invention of Google Maps. Audio, 9 minutes
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted29 November 2021
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- Posted18 November 2021
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- Posted7 November 2021
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- Posted22 July 2021
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- Posted21 June 2021
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- Posted21 June 2021
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- Posted17 June 2021
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- Posted27 January 2021
A Point of View. Off the Map. Audio, 9 minutes
Sara Wheeler on navigating unmapped territory.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Postcolonial Derby: Privateers, Pieces of Eight and the Postwar Playhouse. Audio, 45 minutes
What connects a "double elephant" sized map, an academy of dissenters and Daniel Defoe?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted16 October 2020
- Attribution
- Posted3 July 2020
Mapping the Future. Audio, 28 minutes
Jerry Brotton navigates the transformation from paper to digital mapping.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
BBC Inside Science. Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic. Audio, 28 minutes
Back to School and Covid-19 and Ordnance Survey and the pandemic.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Forum. Gerard Mercator: The man who revolutionised mapmaking. Audio, 44 minutes
The mapmaker who defined the modern world
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted7 April 2020
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- Posted9 April 2020
- Attribution
- Posted14 February 2020
BBC Inside Science. Ordnance Survey - Britain's 220-year-old tech company; Launching synthetic voices and personality test. Audio, 41 minutes
Ordnance Survey - 220-year-old tech company, synthetic voices and personality test.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
World Wise Web. GPS. Audio, 10 minutes
How Professor Bradford Parkinson and his team developed GPS
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
