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Sneyd Pit Disaster

Producer

Ray Johnson

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

This documentary is dedicated to the memory of the 57 men and boys who lost their lives on New Year’s Day, 1942. The explosion at Sneyd is put into the context of wartime, explained by experts at Apedale...

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Influence of Joyce’s Writing on Iain Sinclair’s Own Style of Urban Narrative (2016)

Subject

Literature

Recording of the John Coffin Memorial Reading, which took place at the Institute of English Studies on June 16, 2016. Writer Iain Sinclair discusses the influence of Joyce’s writing on his own style of...

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Finsbury Health Centre (1983 Video)

Producer

David Kemp

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £45.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the work of Berthold Lubetkin through a study of one of the buildings he designed with the Tecton partnership - the Finsbury Health Centre. Uses material from diverse contemporary sources to...

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Anthony Burgess: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)

Director

John Musilli

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess takes a freewheeling look at James Joyce’s great experimental novel "Finnegans Wake". Burgess has always been fascinated by Joyce’s final work: its idiosyncratic...

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European Volunteer Workers (2013)

Producer

Mark Whitaker

Subject

History; Social Studies

Between 1947 and 1949 the British government, desperately short of workers in the ‘essential’ industries of agriculture, coal mining and textiles, turned to the millions of East Europeans living in...

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Man-Made Famine (1986 Video)

Subject

Agriculture; Development studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 55 min.

Argues that neglect of women farmers is a major reason for famine in Africa. Three quarters of Africa’s food is grown by women, but most of Africa’s land is owned by men, and most agricultural investment...

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Kazakhs of China, The (1983 Video)

aka: Inside China: The Kazakhs

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Kazakhs are horse-riding herders of sheep and yak, living on a vast territory administratively called East Wind Commune in Sinkiang province of China. For the first time a western television team was...

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Some Cns Disorders in Sheep (1985 Video)

Subject

Veterinary science

Distribution

Hire (RVC UVCE) Sale (Univ Edinburgh), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 31 min., 1997 hire: £13.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Concentrates not on individual diseases or specialised diagnostic methods but on ways in which the central nervous system disturbances may be detected, the similarities which can occur between disorders with...

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Chinua Achebe - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

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

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Chinua Achebe, originally broadcast on 27 July 1986 in the AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES series on the BBC World Service. Chinua Achebe talks to Fiona Ledger about: 1)...

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Infections and the Nerves (2018)

Subject

Medical sciences

Certain infections have a particular impact on the peripheral nerves as part of their normal disease process. Some infectious effects are predominately on the motor nerves such as polio (currently heading...

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