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State banquet for West German President’s visit (1986)

Genre

News report; Speech

On the occasion of Britain taking on the Presidency of the EEC and the visit of the new West German President, Richard Von Weizsaker to the UK, the Queen gives an address at a state banquet at Buckingham...

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After eight special (1980)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Jingle

Lawrence Spicer presents this special edition of After Eight, The World of Islam. At the London Islamic Centre Chief Imam Dr Zaki Badawi explains the history and practices of the religion. Dalu Jones talks...

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H.G. Wells: The Spoken Word (2006)

Subject

Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £10.00

This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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Miners’ Film, The (1974)

Subject

Film studies; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 49 minutes), £8.00

Documents the industrial action taken by miners in the winter of 1973-4 which helped to bring down Edward Heath’s Tory government. The strike is seen as part of the successful opposition against the...

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Views on Stalin (1979)

Genre

Interview

Interview on Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, his paranoia and the rewriting of his period of government and policies, he is now seen as an embarrasment. And what he would think of the state of the USSR today....

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Troubles in Northern Ireland, The (2012)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 20 minutes), $240.00 (DVD), $216.00 (1 Year Digital Licence)

For thirty years the words ‘Northern Ireland’ were associated with violence, unrest, political instability and death. Why, and how, did this come about? Was it a religious, economic or political...

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Home Front, The: 1939-1945 (1982 Multimedia)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. b&w.

A selection of cartoonists’ graphic images designed to closely examine the Home Front during World War 2. Cartoons drawn for the major newspapers and opinion-forming journals are compared and contrasted to...

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Cause of Ireland, The (1983)

Director

Chris Reeves

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 PAL, 104 minutes), £20.00

Relates the history of politics in Northern Ireland from 1969-1983. It dismisses the notion that what is happening is a problem of law and order or a religious war; it sees the issues as unmistakably...

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Miners’ Strike, The: Twenty Years on (2009)

Subject

History; Politics & government

The Miners’ Strike arouses debate like few other contemporary political events. The 25th anniversary re-opened old divisions, with arguments still raging around the miners’ leadership, the motives of the...

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Mandela (1985)

aka: Mandela: The Struggle is My Life

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 42 minutes), £23.00

A political biography of Nelson Mandela and his unique role in the liberation struggle in South Africa, as an individual and as an executive member of the African National Congress. Even in 1985, after 23...

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