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Take It from Here [11/02/1951] (1954 Radio)

aka: Hamlet Pantomime

Series

Take It from Here

Producer

Charles Maxwell

BBC radio comedy series. In a sketch within this episode June Whitfield (Hamlet), Jimmy Edwards (Gertrude) and Alma Cogan (Ophelia) stage Hamlet as a pantomime. Sections of the dialogue run thus: June: Now,...

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Decade of Destruction (1986 Video)

Director

Adrian Cowell

Producer

Roger James

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 52 min., 1993 sale: £40.00 (+ VAT +p&p)

An account of the destruction of the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. The destruction of the world’s tropical forests is the greatest single threat to the stability of environmental systems on our planet....

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That Hagan Girl (1947 Film)

Director

Peter Godfrey

Producer

Alex Gottlieb

Feature film. Mary Hagan (Temple) lives in small-town Ohio and is subject to vicious gossip about the identity of her father, Tom Bates (Reagan), rumoured to be a prominent lawyer. When the lawyer returns to...

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Research And Life

Date released

1960

Series name

People And Places

Issue no

7

NoS ID

327437

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Ali Nour talks about research in Britain, illustrating his talk with accounts of three specific projects: testing a new prototype bus; a system of quelling wash at harbour entrances; and a plan...

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Research And Life

Date released

1960

Series name

Report From London

Issue no

7

NoS ID

327500

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Hussein Darabaghi talks about research in Britain, illustrating his talk with accounts of three specific projects: testing a new prototype bus; a system of quelling wash at harbour entrances;...

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Yorkshire - River of Coal

Date released

May 1968

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346411

Story no

3 / 3

NoS synopsis: Seven Yorkshire collieries keep Ferrybridge Power Station, one of the largest in Britain, supplied with five million tons of coal a year. NCB Commentary - Ferrybridge in Yorkshire. One of...

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Kings of the Jungle (1991 Video)

Director

Chris Christophe

Producer

Chris Christophe

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1993 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The story of Brazil’s greatest living explorers, Claudio and Orlando Villas Boas, now both in their 70s, who retrace their 1943 expedition into a then unexplored region of the southern Amazon. Their...

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Up the Yangtze (2008)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 93 minutes), £14.99

The Three Gorges Dam, the largest engineering project since the Great Wall and hotly contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle, provides the epic and unsettling backdrop for UP THE YANGTZE, a dramatic...

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Liverpool on Film: 1897 to 1967 (2007)

Subject

Architecture; History; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

To mark Liverpool’s 800th birthday this DVD of archive film footage tells the story of Liverpool during the turbulent times of the twentieth century. Liverpool was one of the first cities in the world to...

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A KINGDOM OF Coal

Date released

Sep 1964

Series name

Mining Review 18th Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

346259

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: Sid Chaplin, author and miner, presents a view of Co. Durham, past, present and future. NCB Commentary - This is the county where I was born - County Durham - a tight little kingdom which...

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