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Shot in Bernard Leach’s home and studio in St. Ives, Cornwall. The artist discusses the influence of his apprenticeship in Japan and his desire to bridge the differences between East and West. He...
Thirteen British Council films from the 1940s have been digitised and are now available from their Time/Image website. These documentaries reflect the work of great directors such as Mary Field (Development...
Interview with Duncan Douglas, a Savile Row tailor who came from Grenada and worked his apprenticeship for a number of tailors before setting up on his own. Shows the processes involved in making a suit.
Radio show which explores the history and traditions of Britain’s last great open air oratory site, the Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park, London. Speakers, hecklers and spectators of diverse backgrounds,...
Video-based teaching package based on the 1999 BBC adaptation of ‘Great Expectations’, which, in discussing the film, also studies Dickens himself, the nature of adaptation and the original novel. Also...
Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...
A record of the last Black Country hand steel rolling mill (John Bradley & Co.) made in 1982, only 3 days before it closed. The production follows the process from raw material to the final rolled section,...
The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...
BBC Wildlife Finder A site from the BBC that uses footage from the Natural History Unit archive to show hundreds of different animals, their habitats, and animal and plant adaptations and behaviour. The...
2012. GB. CD. 218 minutes. British Library (Spoken Word series). ISBN: 9780712351102. Price: £20.36 About the Author: Dr Alexander Beaumont is a Teaching Fellow at the University of York, where he teaches...
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