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Caernarvonshire - Face Workers

Date released

Dec 1965

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

4

NoS ID

346311

Story no

1 / 4

NoS synopsis: Miners learn about mountaineering in Snowdonia NCB Commentary - A bus load of young miners - 40 lads from the Yorkshire Coalfield arrive in Snowdonia for a week’s adventure course in the...

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TESTING TIME

Date released

Nov 1952

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

345764

Story no

3 / 4

BFI synopsis: the loco testing station, Rugby, where main-line trains are put through their paces and their performances assessed. NCB Commentary - The railways are among the nation’s biggest coal users....

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Evening with Shakespeare, An (1925 Radio)

Radio programme dedicated to Shakespeare’s works in music and verse. J. Forbes Knowles and Neil Mclean perform Act III, iii of Much Ado About Nothing (19:55-20.05) and the ‘tent scene’ (III iii) from...

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Kent - Sea Change

Date released

Mar 1966

Series name

Mining Review 19th Year

Issue no

7

NoS ID

346321

Story no

1 / 3

NoS synopsis: Kent miners who go to sea to fish at Deal NCB Commentary - The Straits of Dover - one of the world’s busiest seaways. The town of Deal on Kent’s south east shore, looks out over the...

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GLAMORGANSHIRE - WELSH SHOVEL

Date released

Jun 1959

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

10

NoS ID

346046

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: New techniques at Nantgarw colliery, near Cardiff. New technique for concreting tunnel walls shown with two men experimenting on wall of surface, then underground. Shot of driving tunnel to get...

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Romeo and Juliet (1944 Radio)

Producer

Mary Hope Allen

Radio adaptation of Shakespeare’s play arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon, produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Fay Compton and David King-Wood in the title roles.

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Rapid Transit

Date released

May 1968

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346409

Story no

1 / 3

NoS synopsis: Britain’s coal industry depends on modern transport methods both for men and materials NCB Commentary - Moving people - and objects - fast is in tune with the times. It’s as true in our...

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ART

Date released

Feb 1955

Series name

Mining Review 8th Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

345860

Story no

1 / 3

BFI synopsis: ex-miner Arthur Newton paints pictures in colliery canteens NCB Summary - Brightening canteens in Yorkshire with pictures by Arthur Newton, himself once a miner but now on N.C.B. training...

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CRUNCH: Northumbria

Date released

Nov 1957

Series name

Mining Review 11th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

345979

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: miner Joe Steel, world champion crisp eater. NCB Commentary - At Choppington Colliery, Joe Steel comes off shift. In nearby Bedlington his "Local" is the Howard Arms. With Mrs. Steel, Joe is...

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Nottinghamshire - Coal Grown

Date released

Apr 1968

Series name

Mining Review 21st Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346407

Story no

3 / 4

NoS synopsis: African violets, popular house plants, are literally reared on coal NCB Commentary - This house at Lambley is the home of Mr. G. J. Wicks. Mr. Wicks has the distinction of being Britain’s...

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