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Timewatch: The Empire State Story (2011)

Subject

Engineering

First transmitted in 2001, this programme chronicles the construction of the Empire State Building in New York, which was the world’s tallest skyscraper when opened in 1931. The iconic building’s history...

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Whither Labour?: Stewart Wood on the Future of the Left in Britain (2016)

Director

Stewart Wood

Subject

Politics & government

Following the Labout Party leadership election, Lord Stewart Wood speaks about the party’s future. Wood has been a Labour peer since 2011 and served in Ed Miliband’s Shadow Cabinet. He held an advisory...

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Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2016)

Subject

Social Studies

Three part documentary series filmed using camera phones by people smuggling themselves into Europe. Episode one begins with a look at the thousands of Syrian refugees arrive in the Turkish port of Izmir....

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Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

Subject

History; Politics & government

A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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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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Discover .... Korean Art and Society

Subject

Art; Crafts; Design

A series of 3 short videos created to provide background information about Korean history and society for visitors to the Samsung Gallery of Korean Art at the V&A. BUDDHISM IN KOREA (2 min 32 secs) Buddhist...

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Approaches to Advanced Japanese Translation (2 Parts) (1996)

aka: Advanced Japanese

Subject

Japanese studies

1 TRANSLATION: A STRATEGIC APPROACH (1996, 49 minutes). This video demonstrates a strategic approach to translation from Japanese to English, designed to enable intermediate to advanced level students to...

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Critical Social Work Practice (2009)

Subject

Social welfare

This series of 25 audio tracks looks at social work practice around the world and compares attitudes and management techniques within the social work field. Material is taken from The Open University Course...

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Connecting Lines: Artists Talking About Drawing (2010)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Audio (CD)

CONNECTING LINES celebrates twenty years of the ongoing ‘Artists Lives’ project, run by National Life Stories in association with the Tate. A crucial aim of the project is to create an opportunity for...

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