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Michael Ondaatje - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Extracts from two BBC Radio 3 NIGHTWAVES programmes of interviews with Michael Ondaatje, the Canadian novelist known for his skill in combining the real and the imaginary, the surreal and the factual. In...

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Small Rnas That Silence Genes (2005)

Subject

Biology

Video recording of a lecture given by David Bartel, a member of the Whitehead Institute, on 20/6/2005. From the Director’s Lecture Series for Non-Scientists. 56 minutes

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Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The (2007)

aka: Chavez: Inside the Coup

Director

Kim Bartley; Donnacha O’Briain

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

An intimate profile of the charismatic and unconventional Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the coup attempt against him in April 2002, and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later. 75 minutes

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Debtocracy (International Version) (2011)

Director

Costas Efimeros

Subject

Economics; Geography

For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. DEBTOCRACY seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. The documentary...

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Why the Enlightenment Still Matters Today (2012)

Subject

History

Video recording of the 2012 Joint Royal Historical Society/Gresham College Annual Lecture in which Professor Justin Champion argues why we would be wise to go back to explore some of the more radical...

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State of the Universe, The (2017)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Film

Our universe was created in ‘The Big Bang’ and has been expanding ever since. In this public lecture, Professor Brian Schmidt, from the Department of Physics at University of Oxford, describes the vital...

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Volcanos: From Fuming Vents to Extinction Events (2017)

Subject

Geology

Volcanologist Professor Tamsin Mather, winner of the 2017 Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture, explores some of the different types of volcanic activity that we see on Earth today and have seen over our...

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State Involvement in War Crimes Trials (2013)

Subject

Law

This lecture by Sir Geoffrey Nice examines the difficulty of assessing the responsibility of states in international war crimes courts, which deal only with the responsibility of individuals for crimes they...

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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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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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