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Face to Face: Maya Angelou (2011)

Subject

Literature

In this programme first broadcast in 1994, Jeremy Isaacs asks the black American writer Maya Angelou about her life, her writing and her hopes for the future. What unfolds is a frank and sometimes shocking...

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How we Built Britain (2007)

Subject

Architecture; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

A series of six programmes in which David Dimbleby travels around the country to present a social history of the nation through its buildings, revealing a thousand years of change written in architecture.

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Psychology of Alan Turing, The (2014)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Audio (Download)

Podcast from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Michael Ferguson has written book reviews of two recent biographies on the mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing - who recently received a royal pardon...

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Headskills with Ed Start (1996 Multimedia)

Subject

Education

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive training programme for new or potential primary headteachers, offering ideas and perspectives on how to cope effectively with the varied responsibilities of a headteacher. Covers issues of...

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Contenders, The: Television Production (2005)

aka: Building Blocks

Subject

Careers Guidance; Media studies

Distribution

VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), subscription only

The challenge for Martin Bashir is a hectic three days directing a consumer story for BBC’s ‘Watchdog’ programme. He has to draw on all his skills as he wrestles with researching directing a film crew...

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Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker (1980 Film, Video)

Director

Joanne Grant

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Using the life of Ella Baker as a connecting thread, traces the history of the US civil rights movement from the 1940s to the 1960s. Ella Baker’s political career was intertwined with most of the events of...

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Saturday Morning Pictures: Best of the Children’s Film Foundation, Vol 3 (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 123 minutes), £9.99 (inclusive)

Two films made by the Children’s Film Foundation. The DVD contains 2 extra programmes from THE MAGNIFICENT 6 1/2 series.

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Coffee-Coloured Children (1988)

Producer

Ngozi Onwurah; Simon K Onwurah

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 16 min), £4.00

An autobiographical account of the film-maker’s experiences of growing up as a child of mixed race. Born in Newcastle to an English mother and a subsequent absent father in an area where there were no...

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Mental Maths for New Curriculum Year 1 to 6 (2013)

aka: New Curriculum Mental Maths Tests. Year 1 to 6

Subject

Education; Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, CD-ROM (6 CDs (each pack)), £50.00 (each pack)

The New Curriculum Mental Maths Tests (Key Stage 2) have been written to support teaching of the new national curriculum. The tests are designed for use with pupils once per week to build number fluency and...

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Vikram Seth - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Audio extracts from a radio interview with Indian poet and novelist Vikram Seth, originally broadcast as a Meridian Feature on 4/10/1999, In the extract Vikram Seth talks about: his view of himself as a...

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