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  1. Talking To Machines

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    166
    NoS ID
    325704
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Good working relationships have always depended heavily on being able to talk with your co-workers. Now you can talk to your computer - and get an immediate response!

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  2. Promise in the Sky (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Bill Metcalfe
    Producer
    Judith Davison
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Suggests that investment in space technology is perhaps a ‘flight from reality’ with so many problems on earth requiring urgent attention. Discusses the benefits that have and will be experienced,...

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  3. Twentieth Century Cave: Tensile Structures

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    162
    NoS ID
    325690
    Story no
    5 / 6

    COI synopsis: A building technique which relies on tension, not compression, to keep the structure standing. It means that in a complex series of sweeping curves the structure can take on virtually any shape.

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  4. Kew Gardens

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    513
    NoS ID
    326803
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: London Line cameras show how the scientific knowledge of Kew can work for the benefit of Africa and the world.

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  5. Roll-On Road

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    166
    NoS ID
    325705
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Too frequently, heavy-duty vehicles meet a boggy grave. But a new, flexible matting acts as a foundation for temporary roads on construction sites. And when you’ve finished, the road can...

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  6. 500th London Line

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    500
    NoS ID
    326789
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: Some of the themes and stories covered in previous London Line programmes to date.

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  7. The Livingstone Institute

    Date released
    1974
    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    479
    NoS ID
    326768
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: At the Livingstone Institute at Strathclyde University experts from Africa and the world study the best ways of organising industry in a developing continent. London Line traces the development...

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  8. Air Rover

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    166
    NoS ID
    325702
    Story no
    1 / 4

    COI synopsis: Fly too slow in a plane, and you’re liable to stall and drop like a stone out of the air. With the new Air Rover plane, this is impossible! Which is perhaps not entirely surprising for a...

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  9. Wood Welding

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    166
    NoS ID
    325703
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: How long is a piece of wood? Often too short for the needs of efficient mass production work. Now a British scientist has come up with a new way of welding wood together - the hard parts mesh...

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  10. Wife Pleads for Edgar Sanders: Government Rejects Exchange Plan. Exclusive Interview

    Date released
    5 Mar 1953
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2297
    NoS ID
    044279
    Story no
    3 / 6
    Extras
    1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

    Wife of business man jailed three years ago in Hungary on espionage charge urges renewed efforts to secure his freedom.

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