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Harper Audio: John Donne

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. HarperAudio! presents the love poetry of John Donne, read by academy-award winning actor Richard Burton. This...

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Oldest Geordie, The: Environmental History of the River Tyne (2015)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; History

Historian Leona Skelton, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol, presents this look at the extent to which people have shaped the River Tyne. Skelton’s project challenges us to see...

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Hell on Earth (1931)

aka: Niemandsland

Director

Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff

Subject

History

The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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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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Way of the Morris (2011)

Director

Tim Plester

Subject

Dance; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £13.40

Morris Dancing is a form of English folk dancing that dates back to the 15th Century, in which men in costumes adorned with bells would offer their version of the dance of the Moors, with scarves, sticks and...

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What in the World (4 Programmes) (1951)

Subject

Archaeology; Media studies

WHAT IN THE WORLD was the Penn Museum’s popular weekly half-hour television programme which was first seen in the US in 1951 and which ran for 14 years. On each programme, four or five unidentified...

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Coi Collection: Vol 5 - Portrait of a People (2011)

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 291 minutes), £19.99

The fifth volume in the COI collection, PORTRAIT OF A POEPLE, proudly looks at Britain and its people. Promoting an idealised notion of Britain has often been at the forefront of COI film production: from...

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Interview with Peter Kosminsky, An (2008)

Subject

Media studies

Peter Kosminsky, director of BRITZ and THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, talks to Broadcast in an online video interview about his role as the industry’s self-confessed "troublemaker". The interview is in four...

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Safer Medicines (2007)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 32 minutes), £5.00

Safer Medicines showcases state-of-the-art approaches to ensuring that drugs in the future will be safer than they have been in the past. World leading scientists from industry and academia present their...

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