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New TV drama based on MPs (1996)

Genre

Interview; News report

Jeff Collins reports on a new political soap made by Prince Edward’s television company, Ardent Productions. Channel Four’s Annie’s Bar features the lives, schemes and loves of backbench MPs as they...

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Covering Syria and the Refugee Crisis (2016)

Subject

Media studies

Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4, gives a talk for the Business and Practice of Journalism Seminar Series on her own experiences of covering the Syrian refugee crisis for Channel 4 News....

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Jump Britain (2005)

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes), £12.99

A look at the physical sport of free running, a method of crossing a town or city by leaping between buildings and rooftops. Sebastien Foucan, the sport’s co-founder, and friends tackle some of Britain’s...

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Beaten Only by the Cold!

Date released

8 Sep 1927

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1431; Super Issue No.: 27/72

NoS ID

086236

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

Mrs Corson has to give up when within 4 miles of France -- one of the finest Channel attempts on the record. Pigeons were employed to report progess. Hard luck.

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Farewell to the Welfare State (1986)

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £31.90

A radical film examining the birth of the welfare system in the UK and its future under the Thatcher government. Archive material is used to show how poor the nation’s health was before the introduction of...

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A whole different ball game (1987)

Genre

Interview; Documentary; Advertisement; Special

It’s a Whole Different Ball Game. Documentary on American sports in Britain. Examines coverage of Superbowl on Channel 4; popularity of American football and baseball; history of American football;...

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Biggest Hovercraft

Date released

29 Oct 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/87

NoS ID

112834

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

Britain’s latest and biggest Hovercraft the SRN 4 made its public debut. It’s a craft that will revolutionise cross-channel traffic.

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(Untitled record)

Date released

3 Apr 1969

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

69/28

NoS ID

113523

Story no

4 / 6

Extras

1 film clip

Just up river from Greenwich, Tower Bridge slowly opened. There was something big coming - the SRN 4, "Princess Margaret". Seaspeed’s cross-channel passenger-car hovercraft had come to town to let London...

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Gulliver’s Travels (2002)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 206 minutes), £9.99

A star-studded television dramatisation of the satire by Jonathan Swift, adapted by Simon Moore. DVD extras include ‘The making of ...'

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Napoleon’s Waterloo (2004)

aka: War Against Napoleon - Napoleon’s Waterloo

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £13.99

A documentary examining not only the bloody conflict between the French and Coalition armies at Waterloo in 1815, but also the intense rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of...

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