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Jobs With A Thrill

Date released

1961

Series name

Look At Life

Issue no

133

NoS ID

349757

Story no

1 / 1

BFI synopsis: Demonstrates some thrilling occupations, including a steel erector, a quarry blastman, steeple jacks and riding the wall of death.

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Principles of Caste (1982 Film)

Director

Tom Selwyn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Analyses the religious principles behind the caste system and how these work in a Hindi marriage ceremony. Through an interview with an untouchable, and discussion with people working in various occupations,...

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Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [09/09/2007] (2007 Radio)

Series

Twenty Minutes

Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the writer and former diplomat Rory Stewart who chooses his favourite writing about the rhetoric of...

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Working (2004)

Subject

Drama; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

A musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examining the average worker’s viewpoint...showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people -...

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Rural Life 1: Image and Reality (1987 Video)

Producer

Nick Levinson

Subject

History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at three Victorian villages - Old Warden and Steppingley in Bedfordshire and Wortham in Suffolk. The Bedfordshire villages are the product of improvements made by wealthy landowners and represent...

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Recruitment and Selection: How It Really Happpens (1997 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1999 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Advice on how to obtain a suitable job, explaining the criteria used by employers to select and appoint the right people for their organisations. Presents practical advice from employers in a range of...

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Hard Life, A (1983 Video)

aka: Mia Skliri Zoi

Director

Colette Piault

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £24.00

Follows Kalliopi Kalogerou, who has spent her entire life in the Greek village in Epirus where she was born in 1900. A simple witness to the century, she has lived through Turkish domination and successive...

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Audition/Talent Competition (1963)

Director

Milos Forman

Subject

Czech studies; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 79 minutes), £12.99

Milos Forman’s debut film launched what became known internationally as the Czech New Wave. Although made as two separate ‘featurettes’, the style and themes were very similar and they were released as...

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Hazardous Business (1990 Video)

Subject

Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1996 sale: £19.95 (+VAT +p&p)

A training video for those at the risk of hepatitis B contamination - people whose occupations bring them into contact with blood and other body fluids. COSHH regulations require employers in high risk areas...

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How Are You Today?: The Risks of Asbestos in Buildings (2001 Video)

Subject

FE; Health & safety

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 2004 sale: £42.12 (+VAT + p&p)

Provides advice on undertaking a visual asbestos survey, preparing a location plan, and preparing and implementing a management plan. Also advises on the health risks associated with asbestos, the risks of...

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