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  1. Wired for Books: Peter Ackroyd (About Charles Dickens) (1991)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Peter Ackroyd, author of Dickens: Public Life & Private Passion, and Dickens’ London, speaks with Don Swaim in this 1991 interview about the life of Charles Dickens. According to Peter Ackroyd, Charles...

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  2. Normal Distribution, The: An Introduction (2012)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    A lecture on normal distribution by Charles Taylor of the University of Leeds. In three parts, each about 13 minutes long. Aimed at A-level Maths students.

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  3. Barnaby Rudge (1960)

    Director
    Barry Morris
    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature

    Thirteen episode BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ historical novel set amidst the Gordon Riots of 1780. (780 minutes)

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  4. Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

    David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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  5. Celebrating Dickens (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    This documentary, presented by Professor John Mee, explores the life and career of Charles Dickens in his various guises: the author, the public performer, the philanthropist, the celebrity, the boy and the...

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  6. Babbage and Lovelace (2015)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    The central figure of 19th-century computing was Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who may be said to have pioneered the modern computer age with his ‘difference engines’ and his ‘analytical engine’,...

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  7. Darwin and the Ancient Earth: Dinosaurs and the ‘Deep Past’ In the 19th-Century Imagination (2009)

    Subject
    Geology; Natural history

    Why was the young Charles Darwin’s fascination with geology so important for his later work and why was prehistory so popular in early nineteenth-century Britain? This podcast with Professor Jim Secord,...

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  8. Fighting to Fish / Un Siecle de Lutte (2004)

    Director
    Charles Menzies
    Subject
    Languages; Social sciences

    Adapted from Dr. Charles Menzie’s book ‘Red Flags and Lace Coiffes’, this film uses animated archival images to tell the turbulent history of industrialisation and resistance over the last century in...

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  9. Powers of Ten (2000)

    Director
    Charles Eames; Ray Eames
    Subject
    Mathematics; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 21 minutes), £19.14 (Art Data); $24.99 (Eames Gallery)

    The collection from Arts Data and Powersof 10.com contain: "Powers of Ten 1978" (9 minutes) "A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe"...

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  10. Our Mutual Friend (1958) (2016)

    Director
    Derek Tayler
    Subject
    English language and literature

    1958 television adaptation, in twelve parts, of Dickens’ last completed novel. Originally broadcast between 7th November 1958 and 23rd January 1959.

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