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Twice Born (1995 Video)

Director

Deborah Cadbury

Producer

Deborah Cadbury

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Two-year-old Ben Crosland was born ‘twice’ - at only 24 weeks he was partially removed from his mother to undergo experimental surgery, and then returned to the womb and his life was saved. The...

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Fat Files, The (1999 Video)

Producer

Jill Fullerton-Smith

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 150 min., 2000 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series examining obesity, using case studies and interviews with leading scientists. In 3 parts: 1) Born to Be Fat: research has established a link between obesity and the absence of leptin, a hormone that...

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Life is Impossible (1993 Video)

Producer

John Lynch

Subject

Astronomy; Geology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at theories on the origins of life. When did life begin and did it evolve on earth, in the sea or in space? In 1953, scientists thought that they had found the answer with a recipe for a primordial...

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I-Bomb, The (1995 Video)

Producer

Kate O’Sullivan

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Claims that the idea of information as power is becoming a political reality: knowledge has become the weaponry of the future. Addresses the link between information technology and military power, using as...

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Ulcer Wars (1994 Video)

Producer

Michael Mosley

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Until the mid-1970s the only answer to serious peptic ulcers was surgery. The popular belief then, and now, is that ulcers are due to stress, which causes the stomach to produce acid. Barry Marshall...

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Expedition Congo (2013)

aka: Congo

Director

Brian Leith

Subject

Biology; Natural history

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 147 minutes), £14.19

First broadcast in 2001, this BBC documentary series focuses on the Congo River of Central Africa by exploring the rich variety of animals and habitats that are to be found along the river’s 4, 700...

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Siamese Twins (1997 Video)

Producer

Jon Palfreman

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at the surgical attempt to separate the young Siamese twins Dao and Duan, who are 3-year-old Thai orphans. They share a pelvis and a third leg, their spines and lower colons are fused and each twin has...

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Bse (2 Parts) (1996 Video)

Producer

Bettina Lerner

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

2: In the 1980s people in Britain ate BSE-infected food, and the first victims of a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human parallel to BSE, may have already died. Asks how BSE is transmitted, what...

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Edward II (1991 Television)

Director

Derek Jarman

Producer

Steve Clarke-Hall; Anthony Root

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

Derek Jarman’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s Jacobean tragedy, which draws out a number of contemporary parallels. Out of distribution for several years, this film was released on DVD in 2010. DVD...

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Antarctica (3 Parts) (1997 Video)

Producer

Kate O’Sullivan

Subject

Geography

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

2: The mystery of what formed the Antarctic continent has obsessed explorers since Shackleton and Scott. Using evidence from the tiny amount of rock exposed above the ice, geologists have come up with a...

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