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Newtonians, The (1992 Video)

Producer
Robert Philip

Subject
Physics

Distribution
Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines the influence of Newton on scientific thinking in the 18th century, and the rise of what became known as Newtonianism. Discusses ‘Principia Mathematica’ and ‘Optics’, which gave rise to the...
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Changing Berlin: Changing Europe (1995 Video)

Producer
Jack Leatham; Vic Lockwood

Subject
Geography

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Explores the relationship between local experience and global change by looking at some of the changes that have taken place in Berlin during the present century and in particular at the impact of the fall...
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Aeneid, The (1999 Audio)

Producer
Viv Beeby; Jeremy Howe

Subject
Classical studies

Distribution
Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 120 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A dramatisation of Virgil’s epic poem ‘The Aeneid’, translated by Cecil Day-Lewis and adapted by Tom Holland. Tells the story of the legendary origin of the Roman Empire through the experiences of the...
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Savagery and the American Indian (2 Parts) (1991 Video)

Producer
Ken Kirby

Subject
Anthropology; History

Distribution
Hire (Survival International) Sale (BBC), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) set

Looks at the history of the persecution by European settlers of the American Indian nations. In two parts: 1) Wildnerness; Shows how Puritan prejudices helped to generate false views of Indians; 2)...
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Scientific Community in Seventeenth-Century England, The (1992 Video)

Producer
Robert Philip

Subject
History; Science

Distribution
Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The foundation of the Royal Society, and the nature of the scientific community within which it functioned. There were few professional ‘scientists’ in the modern sense in late 17th-century Britain, but...
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Dream Machine (5 Parts) (1991 Video)

Producer
Fiona Holmes; Robert Hone; Nancy Linde; Jon Palfreman

Subject
Information technology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 50 min., 1997 sale: £250.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series tracing the development of the computer.
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Great Rift, The (1988 Video)

Producer
Keith Scholey; Adrian Warren

Subject
Environmental science; Geology

Distribution
Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 55 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 1996 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series examining the 4500-mile-long Great Rift Valley of Africa, the greatest rupture in the earth’s crust, evolved over some 40m years and still widening. 1: Begins at an active volcano in Zaire which...
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Supersense (6 Parts) (1988)

Producer
John Downer

Subject
Biology

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.99

Series on animal perception, showing the world from the animal’s angle. 1: Examines and experiences the senses animals posess but people do not. A shark, for example, has an electronic sense, that enables...
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