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Surviving buildings indicate that wealth-creating activities in the countryside were as often industrial as as agricultural. This programme looks at industrial and agricultural building in France, Scotland...
Microbes have given us some devastating diseases, everything from the Black Death to cholera, syphilis, typhoid and the occasional yeast infection. But our microbial friends have also done us some good....
The snowmelt of the Andes mountain accounts for roughly 80% of the water supply for Andean cities, including drinking water, irrigation and hydro-electric power. New evidence suggests that most of the Andean...
Paul Heiney looks at the Victorian age of farming, period machinery and traditional livestock breeds. He follows three crops - oats, potatoes and grass, from sowing to harvest, re-creating the days of...
A snapshot of Berlin life, telling a story of five young Berliners - a taxi driver, a travelling wine dealer, a record shop sales girl, a film extra and a model - spending a typical Sunday. A trip to the...
Looks at the users of lasers in telecommunications and medicine and their possible use in America’s ‘Star Wars’ programme. In medicine lasers are used in delicate eye operations and in general surgery...
Land use maps in the Italian state archives in Turin archives are used to research social and economic conditions in the regions of Piedmont - the hilly Langhe with sparse mixed farming, the flat Po valley,...
One of the few remaining silversmiths in Britain (based in Rotherhithe) receives a prize order to manufacture a massive wine cistern. This has enabled a company of 11 chasers, polishers, spinners and smiths...
A digitally remastered collection of 19 British films made between 1922 and 1933 that used groundbreaking techniques to share the secrets of the natural world with cinema audiences. The pioneering series...
In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...
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