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Inside Incredible Athletes (2010)

Subject

Sports science

Broadcasting two years to the day before the Paralympic 2012 Games begin, this programme examines the demanding training regimes and particular skills required for high performance at each sport. The...

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Nation on Film , Series 2 (2007)

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

The second series of six programmes in which aspects of life in the twentieth century are depicted on film, much of it shot by amateurs. Disc One contains Selling Cars, Women’s Football and Kearton’s...

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Reith Lectures 2001, The: The End of Age - Tom Kirkwood (5 Lectures) (2005)

Subject

Medical sciences; Social Studies

The Reith lectures 2001 are presented by Tom Kirkwood, Professor of Medicine and Head of the Department of Gerontology at the University of Newcastle. This year’s lectures deal with growing old. Dramatic...

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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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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With Reference to ... (2005)

Subject

Librarianship

A series of five 15-minute Radio 4 programmes each recorded on location at a unique or definitive collection of some sort (eg teeth, plants, ice, recordings of English dialects). With the help of the...

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Reith Lectures 2003, The Emerging Mind - Vilayanur S. Ramachandran (2006)

Subject

Medical sciences; Psychiatry; Psychology

This year’s Reith lecturer is the neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of California (San Diego). The five lectures study neurological...

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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