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Virtual Democracy? (1996 Video)

Producer

Jeremy Cooper

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A debate about the value of the Internet as a tool for enhancing democracy. The programme uses two case studies: the 1995 UN World Conference on Women held in Beijing, and the 1995 Labour Party conference at...

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Blood of Hussain, The

Director

Jamil Dehlavi

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 min; 51 min), £19.99

Political, subversive and artistically maverick, Pakistan’s leading filmmaker Jamil Dehlavi’s body of work stands out for its originality and engagement with social and political questions. His vision...

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Fat Cats and Skinny Mice (1997 Video)

aka: Fat Cats, Thin Mice

Producer

Deborah Cadbury

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at new approaches to weight loss, as one in seven people in Britain are reputed be clinically obese. Follows a women who underwent stomach-stapling surgery and looks at no-calorie fat (Olestra) and a...

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Terence Gray and the Cambridge Festival Theatre (1980 Multimedia)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, 50 slides. col.

Terence Gray was the foremost theatrical innovator of his day in England. Under his management the Cambridge Festival Theatre of the ‘twenties presented highly stylized and innovative productions...

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Mineralogy Tutorials: Interactive Instruction on Cd-Rom (1995 Multimedia)

Subject

Geology

Distribution

CD-ROM

An interactive multimedia tutorial developed as a companion to Klein and Hurlbut’s ‘Manual of Mineralogy’ 21st edition and ‘Minerals and Rocks’, revised edition, using colour graphics, 3-D...

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Boer War, The: The First Media War (1997 Video)

Producer

William Cran

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Boer War (1988-1902) saw correspondents - among them Winston Churhcill, Rudyard Kipling and Edgar Wallace, photographers and newsreel cameramen play a major part in war propaganda for the first time....

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Inside the Internet (1997 Video)

Producer

David Malone

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An account of the development of the Internet looking at key stages of its development, from its beginnings as the ARPA military information system. Includes interviews with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the...

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If: A Film About Rudyard Kipling (1997 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Actor Mace Richards visits Batemans, the Sussex home of writer Rudyard Kipling, picking up some clues about Kipling’s first, seemingly unpublished, novel. The film mimics a favoured story form, with a...

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Shipwreck (1997 Video)

aka: Wreck, The

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The wreck of a 16th-century ship, possibly the most important marine archaeological find since the ‘Mary Rose’ was discovered in the English Channel off the coast of Alderney. Archaeologists had to...

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Turned on by Danger (1997 Video)

Producer

Michael Mosley

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Profiles Dr Polly Matzinger and her idea of the ‘danger model’ in biology, which has led to a man’s cancer being injected with bacteria and a mouse living with a rat’s heart. Matzinger believes that...

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