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Marriage in the 1950s and 60s: from Wedding Vows to Happily Ever After? (2010)

Subject

History; Social Studies; Women’s studies

After World War II, during which most women worked outside the home as part of the war effort, everything changed. As the men went back to their jobs, the women were expected to return to their role as...

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Muriel Spark - BBC Front Row Interview (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Dame Muriel Spark talks to Mark Lawson at her home in Tuscany about her disastrous teenage marriage, the boyfriend who tried to sell her back her own letters and her conversion to Catholicism.

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Harper Audio: Dylan Thomas

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. This presents the Dylan Thomas reading a selection of his poetry including ‘No Sun Shines’, ‘The Hand...

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Alice Walker - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from two radio interviews with American author and poet Alice Walker, whose poems and short stories typically depict the racism and sexism encountered by black women in America. Both broadcast in...

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David Starkey’s the Six Wives of Henry VIII (2003)

aka: Six Wives of Henry VIII, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 195 minutes), £19.99

Historian David Starkey tells the stories of the women who married Henry VIII, revealing in intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous, dangerous life at court, including the...

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African Schools (2005)

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £17.00

The complete series of 8 programmes about life in a primary and secondary school in Uganda. AFRICAN SCHOOL captures the daily lives, concerns and personalities of young Africans and their teachers in the...

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Future School (10 Parts)

Subject

Architecture; Design; Education

10 programmes following the progress of all aspects of the development of Hadley Learning Community, a new PFI scheme state-of-the-art extended school, from design of the building, to its opening.

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