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Rocket Misses the Moon: The Sun and the Weather

Date released

16 Oct 1958

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

2948

NoS ID

159025

Story no

6 / 6

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Weather (1996 Video)

Producer

Peter Coltman

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 18 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Demonstratess how weather is influenced by temperature, air movement and precipitation. Looks at each of these factors and illustrates how they can be measured, how predictions can be made, and what the...

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Change in the Weather, A (2008 Radio)

Series

Words and Music

Producer

Elizabeth Funning

Radio programme marking 85 years of weather forecasting on the BBC with poetry and music. The programme includes an excerpt from Shakespeare’s King Lear ('Blow wind and crack your cheeks’) read by Mark...

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Extreme Weather (2005)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

First-hand accounts and pictures of the best and worst of British weather during the last sixty years including the blizzards of 1947, coastal floods of 1953, the winter of 1963, the summer of 1976, the...

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Weather, Climate, River and Floods

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 7 x 20 minutes), £60.00

This secondary Channel 4 Learning compilation demonstrates the key physical processes affecting weather and climate. Topics include: Air Around Us; Temperature Differences; Rainfall and water cycle; Tropics;...

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Interpreting Weather at Sea

Subject

Physics; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL)

Explains how the weather works, to help interpret official forecasts more accurately and read between the lines to turn a large area forecast into a local one. Covers energy transfer, gas law, adiabatic...

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Extreme Weather: Coastal Flooding (2016)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £49.00

Through the use of two case studies: the Dawlish Railway Collapse and the East Coast Tidal Surge, this resource looks at the impacts of the 2013/2014 winter storms. The extreme weather conditions that led to...

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Sunshine with Scattered Showers (1996 Video)

Producer

Richard Dale

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines Piers Corbyn’s weather forecasting technique whereby he reads the weather from sunspots and claims to be able to predict th weather up to 12 months in advance. His work is profitable, but...

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Weather on the Move (1989 Video)

Subject

Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) (World Microfilms)

Francis Wilson of SKY News Weather discusses how the earth was created, the link between climate and life on earth, predicting the weather, jetstreams and how they affect the earth’s climate, the Gulf...

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Stormy Weather (1997 Television)

Series

Conjuring Shakespeare

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

The storm scene in King Lear is examined, discussing how the balance can be maintained between the strength of the text and conveying the range of the weather. Four theatrical groups have two days to devise,...

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