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Heart and Sole (1985 Video)

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

Thrombosis can be caused by clots formed after surgery. Now doctors believe that they can prevent it with the discovery of a natural pump in the sole of the foot that sends blood back through the veins....

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Best Bottoms in the Land: A Shakespearean Dream, The (2016 Television)

Six amateur actors from each of the English regions play the Mechanicals and perform with the Royal Shakespeare Company in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Samuel West narrates. London: Tower Theatre from East...

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Bernard Leach & Barbara Hepworth

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £10.00

A DVD produced from the South West Film & Television Archive (SWFTA). During the sixties the local South West TV company Westward Television produced a documentary TV programme about each of these artists....

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Passage to Britain, The (12 Parts) (1983 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 180 min.

Twelve programmes exploring the history of immigration into Britain. The six programmes on tape 1 focus on the legacy of the Empire, the Jews, the Irish, World War II, the Poles and the Hungarians. Tape 2...

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Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj (2002)

Subject

Development studies; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 57 minutes), £30.00 (+VAT)

Filmed in different regions of South Asia from Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province in Pakistan to Kandy in Sri Lanka and in remote villages of Bangladesh and Nepal, the film covers the impact of...

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Nitha (1991 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

Leslie Woodhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...

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Blood on the Cross (1996 Video)

Director

Mark Davis

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

Mark Davis investigates the role of the International Red Cross, the British military and South African mercinaries in the murder of civilians in the highlands of West Papua (Irian Jaya).

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Albert and the Story of Olaudah Equiano (1997 Video)

Subject

Drama; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min.

David Oddie’s theatre performance of a play by Jane Newton-Chance play about the travels of an 18th-century Nigerian as seen by a museum caretaker in south-west England.

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Changing China (1999 Video)

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 100 min., 1999 sale: £19.99 (inc VAT +p&p)

A series of five programmes examining the stagggering pace and scale of change in the People’s Republic of China - both in the cities and in remote villages. Asks who gains and who may be getting left...

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Talking Television: Pity the Poacher (1988 Video)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

A video-based pack that provides teachers with a range of materials for a practical and investigative study of television. The video PITY THE POACHER is taken from the TVS current affairs series ‘Facing...

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