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Britain’s Greatest Pilot (2017)

aka: The Extraordinary Story of Captain Winkle Brown

Subject

Aviation

TV documentary. Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown recounts his flying experiences, encounters with the Nazis and other adventures leading up to and during the Second World War. Illustrated with archive footage...

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George Mackay Brown: Readings (1971)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Audio (Cassette), Free loan

George Mackay Brown, the Orcadian poet, reads his poems and a story ("Witch".) Recorded in Stromness, Orkney in 1971.

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Christy Brown: My Left Foot / Sunshine House (1962)

Subject

Art; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 27 minutes), 60.00 Euros

This film documents the life of Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who was born with severe cerebral palsy. It contains interviews with Brown and his mother. The programme also shows how Brown typed...

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Capability Brown (1964 Film)

Director

D C Chipperfield

Producer

D C Chipperfield

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The life and work of Capability Brown, one of the first landscape gardeners, showing the great influence he had on the development of landscape design during the eighteenth century. Among the locations shown...

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Michael Brown and Joseph Glodstein (198 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col., £35.00

Michael Brown and Joseph Glodstein, winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine talk about themselves and their work on blood cholesterol levels.

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Terence Brown on W B Yeats (1998 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) higher education - master tape for re-editing and copying 2000 sale: £35.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) VHS

Terence Brown, Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin, lectures on the young W B Yeats, focusing on two of the writer’s preoccupations - work and sexuality.

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Brig, The (1964 Film)

Director

Adolfas Mekas; Jonas Mekas

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A film of the stage production ‘The Brig’ by Kenneth H Brown at the Living Theatre, New York, directed by Judith Malina and designed by Julian Beck, depicting twenty-four hours in a marine brig in Japan.

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Incident at Brown’s Ferry (1977 Film)

Producer

Robert Richter

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines the question of nuclear power plant safety, based on an accidental fire at Brown’s Ferry, Alabama in 1975.

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Towards the New Politics (2010)

Subject

Politics & government

As the 2010 election approached, the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr) hosted a series of speeches by senior politicians and leading thinkers to set out their vision of a progressive future for...

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Neave Brown: Unique Housing Models (1999 Multimedia)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 40 min.; 24 slides. col., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Architect Neave Brown reflects on the period during which he worked for the London Borough of Camden and was selected to design and build the huge Alexandra Road housing estate, against enormous political...

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