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Brief History of Swatch, A (1994 Video)

aka: Nicolas Hayek: A Brief History of Swatch

Producer

Jeff Ferry

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1994 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Interview with Nicolas Hayek, chairman of SMH, the makers of the Swatch watch, which is regarded as having saved the Swiss watch industry. SMH has an annual production of over 200 watch designs, and is...

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Oldest Geordie, The: Environmental History of the River Tyne (2015)

Subject

Environmental science; Geography; History

Historian Leona Skelton, a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Bristol, presents this look at the extent to which people have shaped the River Tyne. Skelton’s project challenges us to see...

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Dismantling the Bomb (1994 Video)

Director

Richard Melman

Producer

Richard Melman

Subject

Engineering

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

Examines the process involved in dismantling bombs. It is easy to dismantle bomb cases, but the plutonium pits cannot be simply destroyed. Shows PANTEX in Texas where bombs are dismantled and plutonium pits...

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Wonders of Life (2013)

Producer

Gideon Bradshaw; Michael Lachmann; Paul Olding; Stephen Cooter

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 293 minutes), £19.99

This series reveals how, 3.7 billion years ago, a few fundamental laws gave birth to the most complex, diverse and unique force in the universe - life. Light, gravity, time, matter and energy are the...

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Climate Change and Extinction (2009)

Subject

Environmental science

Video recording of a public lecture given by Dr Richard Leakey at the Royal Society on 27 April 2009. Over one hundred years ago the first national parks were established in order that nature might be...

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Do the Math (2013)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), $350.00

Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben delivers a clear message: to avoid climate catastrophe, we have to limit carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere to 350 parts per million or below, but we...

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Design for an Alien World (1998 Video)

Producer

Cameron Balbirnie

Subject

Astronomy; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tracks some of the development from 1992 to 1997 of a space mission to be launched towards Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn, in October 1997. Follows two experiments being developed at the University...

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Dutch Courtesan, The (2013)

Director

Michael Cordner

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Video recording of The Department of Film,Theatre and Television at the University of York’s production of John Marston’s play ‘The Dutch Courtesan’ which was performed on the 20, 21, and 22 June...

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Green Energy (1998 Video)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £24.95 (inc VAT +p&p)

Reviews some of the sustainable energy projects and plans that have emerged in and around the area covered by the Milton Keynes-based South Midlands Renewable Energy Advice Centre, following on from the...

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Chinua Achebe - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Chinua Achebe, originally broadcast on 27 July 1986 in the AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES series on the BBC World Service. Chinua Achebe talks to Fiona Ledger about: 1)...

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