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Sea Mystery: Soviet Trawlers "Invade" Channel

Date released

25 May 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

2007

NoS ID

042381

Story no

1 / 7

Thirty fishing vessels with parent ship, anchor off Penzance, causing much speculation as to purpose of their voyage.

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Kenya Boran (2 Parts) (1975 Film)

Director

James Blue; David MacDougall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A growing town and a new road encroach upon the territory of a once isolated desert people. Two fathers and their sons confront difficulties between old ways and new. The films lead to speculation on the...

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Shakespeare: The Sonnets (1980 Audio)

Series

Critical Forum

Ronald Draper, Emeritus Professor of the University of Durham, discusses a selection of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Some attention is given to the place in the story of the golden young man, the dark lady, and...

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Papabile: The Men Who Could Be Pope (1997 Video)

Director

Leanne Pooley

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Amid speculation as to who will succeed Pope John Paul II to the papacy, the film goes behind the scenes of the papal conclave in the Vatican showing how the voting process works and looking at the main...

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Bubble Trouble (3 Parts) (2000 Video)

Producer

Bill Treharne Jones; Marcus Kiggell

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series documenting the speculative fever that gripped the Japanese economy in the 1980s and the financial crash that followed.

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Arise Ye Workers - The Dockers’ Fight (1973)

Subject

Film studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £8.00

A campaign film supporting the dockers’ fight against redundancy and wage cuts caused by containerisation. The film charts the struggle against ruthless rationalisation, profiteering and land speculation,...

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"Betwixt Tavern and Tavern" (2015 Audio)

aka: Shakespeare and the Tabard Inn

Producer

Richard Paul

Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Episode 28 in the series. The link between Shakespeare and Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales stems from an anecdote found in a little-known manuscript which...

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Is There a Gene for Happiness (2004)

Subject

Biology; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 29 minutes), £40.00

A programme in 3 parts. As our knowledge of the human genome increases, so does press speculation about the influence that genes may have on our lives and behaviour. Is there a gene for mathematical ability...

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Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings (1996 Video)

aka: £830,000,000: Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings

Producer

Adam Curtis

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tells how Nick Leeson and the executives of Barings, the oldest bank in Britain, lost £830 million. For over two years Leeson, working in Singapore, deceived everyone around him into believing he was a star...

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Plunder: The Crime of Our Time (2010)

Director

Daniel Schechter

Subject

Economics; Finance & Accounting; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 59 minutes), $250.00

Exposing the forces responsible for the loss of trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, massive foreclosures and the disappearance of retirement funds, this film investigates the unregulated fraud and theft...

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