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Shall We Escape Crisis

Date released

8 Jan 1951

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2072

NoS ID

042793

Story no

1 / 7

Miners’ Union executive meets Prime Minister at No 10 to make plans to avert threatened fuel crisis. Sir Will Lawther, President MWU [Mine Workers Union], gives Paramount exclusive interview.

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Sonnets of Shakespeare, Series

Subject

English language and literature

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Shakespeare and the Language of Possibilty (2015 Audio)

Series

Shakespeare Unlimited

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. The 2015 Shakespeare Birthday lecture delivered by Lynne Magnusson, Professor of English at the University of Toronto. Prof. Magnusson shows how a set of small...

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The Adventures of Felix the Cat, by Pat Sullivan -: Felix Has His Tail Bobbed

Date released

5 Feb 1925

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

192

NoS ID

331201

Story no

5 / 5

Pathe Intertitles - "(Newspaper cutting)" ""You have saved the Queen of the Fairies. Any wish you make shall be granted."" "Felix gets his wish, and his amusing adventures in Fairyland you will see - next...

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Five day week?

Date released

Sep 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

1

NoS ID

334707

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: Miners discuss the possibilities of a five day week for miners in a pub. COI Commentary - 1st man: A Five Day week. Can we afford it? 2nd man: Well, I am all in favour of a five-day week. We...

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Nyasaland’s Cotton

Series name

Rhodesian Spotlight

Issue no

28

NoS ID

351941

Story no

4 / 4

Rhodesian Spotlight synopsis: Cotton production in Nyasaland is centred along the Lower Shire River Valley. Grown by Africans who sell it at the local cotton market, it is processed in the Ginnery then towed...

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Scenes from ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Soliloquies from ‘Hamlet’ And Five Sonnets (1951 Audio)

Series

Decca Gold Label

Scenes from Shakespeare read by John Gielgud and Pamela Brown. Scenes from Romeo and Juliet. What lady’s that, which doth enrich the hand (I v); He jests at scars that never felt a wound (II ii); Wilt thou...

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Speech at a Democratic Party (?) Banquet, Wisconsin, 1960 (Video)

An extract from a speech made by President John F. Kennedy at a Democrat Party banquet in 1960. Kennedy expounds his belief that the current Republican administration promises action but only if it is not...

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Dreams of Avarice (2008 Television)

Series

Ascent of Money, The

Director

Adrian Pennink

Producer

Melanie Fall; Joanna Potts

Six-part documentary series on the history of global finance written and presented by Professor Niall Ferguson. In this first episode Ferguson speaks (c 10 mins) about the history of usary, referring to...

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NUM Conference

Date released

Nov 1947

Series name

Mining Review 1st Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

334729

Story no

1 / 3

BFI Summary - The 1947 N.U.M. conference at Rothesay. COI Commentary - Commentary: This year’s National Union of Mine Workers Annual Conference was at Rothesay on the Isle of Bute in the Firth of Clyde....

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