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Professional Knowledge - English

Subject

Education; Information technology

New technologies are second nature to most young people. This programme seeks to explore how they can help and encourage learning in the classroom - particularly in an English lesson. Teenagers discuss their...

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Migrants and Maritime Law (2015)

Producer

Hannah Barnes

Subject

Law; Social Studies

Podcast from BBC Radio 4’s LAW IN ACTION series presented by Joshua Rozenberg. The first item in this magazine format asks what does the law say about commercial ship captains’ duty to help those they...

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Cancer and the Genome (2 Parts) (2005)

Subject

Biology; FE; Medical sciences

Two 15-minute programmes. The first looks at cancer and its causes and the second shows an A-level biology class demonstrating their knowledge of DNA and proteins.

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Turing’s Test (2009)

Director

Mike Heath; Neil Gardner

Subject

Drama; Information technology; Social Studies

A fictionalised account of the final moments in the life of Alan Turing, in the first collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper (The Independent) and an independent production company. The...

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Asperger’s - Oops, Wrong Planet! (2010)

Subject

Psychology; Social welfare

This documentary explores how the Asperger world, once a solitary, cut-off place, has entered the mainstream of modern life, thanks to the increasing importance of digital technology. It also shows how this...

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Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene, 1940-70 (1972)

Director

Emile de Antonio

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 116 minutes), £19.99

Emile de Antonio was a close friend of many New York painters long before abstract expressionism, action painting and pop art became well known and filmed the painters informally in their studios. Shows...

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Animated Minds (8 Parts)

aka: Troubled Minds

Director

Andy Glynne

Subject

Medical sciences; Mental Health and Counselling; Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 mins approx), £103.50

A series of award-wining, short, animated documentaries which use real testimony from people who have experienced different forms of mental distress. The first four films, made in 2003, focus on adults’...

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Lab Rats: Fit to Fly (2004)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL)

A series of four 30-minute programmes in which four volunteers undergo a range of physical and psychological experiments. Cut off from the outside world and confined to a laboratory for twenty-four hours,...

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Coi Collection: Vol 4 - Stop! Look! Listen! (2010)

Subject

Health & safety; History; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 237 minutes), £19.99

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN is the fourth volume released in the BFI’s series of films made by the Central Office of Information. It includes films looking at health, welfare and safety messages for the public...

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Cosmos, The: A Beginner’s Guide (2007)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

This double DVD contains six programmes from the BBC Two series presented by Adam Hart-Davis. Programme 1 - Are we alone or is there other life out there? - We meet the alien hunters, who spend their time...

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