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Merely Players: A Fantasy of Dreams and Dollars (1935 Radio)

aka: Fantasy of Dreams and Dollars, A

Producer

Howard Rose; Owen Reed

Satirical radio play by written L. du Garde Peach and produced by Howard Rose and Owen Reed. Set in Stratford-upon-Avon it features an "inquiring American" meeting "money-grabbing inkeepers, a pedantic...

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London - Chess

Date released

Jul 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346337

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: N.C.B. headquarters chess team NCB Commentary - Some pasttimes demand concentration. For Derek Coleby, Captain of the Coal Board’s Headquarters Chess Team, and for his team mates, amongst...

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Leicestershire - Vision from the Dark

Date released

Nov 1967

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346391

Story no

4 / 4

NoS synopsis: A faceworker, Harry Haines, at Donisthorpe Colliery writes poems of his experiences down the pit. NCB Commentary - 20 years as a faceworker at Donisthorpe Colliery has not dimmed Harry...

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DOWNBEAT

Date released

Mar 1956

Series name

Mining Review 9th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

345908

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: jazz enthusiasts at a Kent colliery club. NCB Commentary - It’s Sunday Afternoon at Aylesham Institute. Men of Snowdon Colliery sit and listen to the band, a local combination this, the...

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A STORY FROM NORTHUMBERLAND

Date released

Apr 1963

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346204

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: what the building of a new power station, Blyth and B, means for the miners of Northumberland. employing 10,000 men. NCB Commentary - This island of ours has precious few natural resources....

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NEW SCHOOL

Date released

Nov 1952

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

345765

Story no

4 / 4

BFI synopsis: opening of a new school at Kelloe, Durham, mainly for miners’ children. NCB Commentary - South-east of Durham City is the mining village of Kelloe, with its characteristic pit tip. Here a...

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SAFETY FIRST

Date released

May 1965

Series name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346285

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: George Brown, M.P. presents safety prizes in the Board’s East Midlands Division NCB Commentary - It’s a quiet Sunday morning outside the Miners’ Welfare Centre at Church Gresley, but...

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Street Fight (2008)

Director

Marshall Curry

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £14.99

STREET FIGHT chronicles the ferocious political clash in 2002 between Cory Booker, a 32-year-old Yale Law School graduate, and long term incumbent Sharpe James, for Mayor of Newark, N.J. Fought in Newark’s...

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ISLAND OF COAL

Date released

Jul 1964

Series name

Mining Review 17th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346251

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: Island of Coal film competition - the culmination of a nationwide children’s competition on the subject of coal. NCB Commentary - It was childrens’ day at a big London cinema - the climax...

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TOUCHE

Date released

Jul 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

11

NoS ID

346050

Story no

2 / 4

NoS synopsis: students at Wigan mining and technical college practise fencing and gymnastics in their spare time. NCB Commentary - Trevor Prebble and Sean O’Roirdan are coal board apprentices and students...

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