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Reith Lectures 2011: Securing Freedom (2 Parts) (2011)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Lecture 1 : LIBERTY - in the first of two Reith 2011 Lectures, Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi explores what freedom means. Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in Burma, she...

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On Stage (2015)

Subject

Drama

Eleven part series about regional theatre in the UK=, including: Bristol, Coventry, Exeter, Frinton-on-Sea, Leicester Liverpool, Margate, Portsmouth and York.

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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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Sound Waves (2008)

Director

Sasha Andrews; Jeanne Guiraud

Subject

Social welfare

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device which can make it possible for the profoundly deaf to hear sound. Although it sounds like a miracle cure, the use of cochlear implants is...

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Shakespeare on Screen (2023 Video)

YouTube video by Jeff Palermo in which he discusses the film and TV adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays that he thinks worked most successfully. He references a number of celebrated adaptations including...

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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 1) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

What’s really going on in Wagner? Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him for as long as he can remember. The...

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Keynes V. Hayek (2011)

Subject

Economics

Audio recording of a debate held at the LSE which looks at the global economic crisis according to the sharply contrasting views of two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century. John Maynard Keynes...

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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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Five Numbers (2005)

Subject

Mathematics

A series of 15-minute programmes in which Simon Singh investigates the history of some of the most special numbers in mathematics - zero, Pi, the golden ratio, the imaginary number and infinity.

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Killing Kindness, A (1997 Television)

Series

Dalziel and Pascoe

Director

Edward Bennett

Producer

Paddy Higson

Television drama series. Second episode of the second series of murder mysteries. In this episode, written by Malcolm Bradbury, the detective duo investigate a serial killer who has carried out three ritual...

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