About BoB - On demand TV & radio for education (Learning on Screen): About

BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education that lets you record and view TV and radio online from over 65 free-to-air channels including an archive of over 2 million programmes. View on campus or at home (UK only).

BoB is available to staff, students and researchers at member universities and colleges across the UK.

Key features:

• Access 2 million broadcasts dating back to the 1990s
• Record from over 65 free-to-air channels
• Create playlists, clips and clip compilations
• Search programme transcripts and subtitles
• Available on all devices

In order to use BoB you need to have a modern browser installed:

• Internet Explorer 11 (or later)
• Edge 12 (or later)
• Mozilla Firefox 44 (or later)
• Safari 8 (or later)
• Google Chrome 48 (or later)

Earlier versions of these browsers may work with BoB but are not supported.

Contacts

For general enquires contact:

Angharad Evans (BoB representative) 

Your Faculty Librarian will also be able to tell you more.

You can access BoB by clicking on the icon below or via the library home page.

The first time you log in you will need to verify your account. To do this enter your university email address and agree to the terms and conditions of use.

If you have any problems logging in, please contact us.

The University's ERA (Education Recording Agency) licence permits registered users to record off-air broadcasts by ERA's members (including the main terrestrial channels), for non-commercial educational purposes.