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Connecting Lines: Artists Talking About Drawing (2010)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Audio (CD)

CONNECTING LINES celebrates twenty years of the ongoing ‘Artists Lives’ project, run by National Life Stories in association with the Tate. A crucial aim of the project is to create an opportunity for...

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Dangerous Dynasty, A: House of Assad (2018)

Subject

History; Politics & government

This three-part BBC series is a thorough lesson in how Syria has ended up in its current predicament. Right at the centre of it are President Bashar and his wife Asma, who met and fell in love in London....

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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation (1998)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 120 minutes), $16.95

Many years after the Civil War had ended, those survivors who had once been slaves were interviewed by a variety of scholars and researchers. Accounts of many of those interviews were set down on paper, and...

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Interview with Peter Kosminsky, An (2008)

Subject

Media studies

Peter Kosminsky, director of BRITZ and THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR, talks to Broadcast in an online video interview about his role as the industry’s self-confessed "troublemaker". The interview is in four...

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Zoo Quest for a Dragon (6 Parts) (2009)

Subject

Anthropology; Biology; Geography; Media studies

ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON, first broadcast in 1956, was the third in David Attenborough’s groundbreaking ZOO QUEST television natural history series. In these programmes he pioneered techniques in programme...

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War of the World (2010)

Subject

History

A 6-part series of 60-minute programmes in which Professor Niall Ferguson presents a major history of the 20th century. He argues that the underpinning forces behind the conflicts of the last century were...

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Cancer and the Genome (2 Parts) (2005)

Subject

Biology; FE; Medical sciences

Two 15-minute programmes. The first looks at cancer and its causes and the second shows an A-level biology class demonstrating their knowledge of DNA and proteins.

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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Climate Wars (2005)

Subject

Environmental science; Politics & government

Gerry Northam delves into the politics that often underlie the science of climate change. In the UK, the government’s chief science adviser has called global warming a greater threat than international...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 3 (2006)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

David Starkey’s third series examining the relationship of the English Monarchy with the people, laws, and land throughout history. Programme 1. THE RETURN OF THE KING. Starting in 1660 with the return...

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