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  1. Scared Straight! 20 Years Later (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Arnold Shapiro
    Subject
    Law; Psychology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS (NTSC). col. ? min., 2000 sale: US$29.95 (+p&p)

    Second update of SCARED STRAIGHT! (1978), in which men and women who as juvenile offenders 20 years earlier met face-to-face hardened criminals in Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. Narrated by Danny Glover.

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  2. Brave New Babies 1 (1982 Video)

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

    Jonathan Glover, a moral philosopher from New College, Oxford, looks at developments in genetic engineering. Experiments involving gene-mapping, cloning and embryo manipulation are already routine but how...

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  3. Mandela (1987 Video)

    Director
    Philip Saville
    Producer
    Dickie Bamber
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 150 min., 1999 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

    A dramatised biography of Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie, filmed in Zimbabwe. Traces Mandela’s shift in philosophy from passive resistance to armed struggle.

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  4. No Act of God (1978 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ian Ball; Sidney Goldsmith
    Producer
    Rupert Glover; Andy Thomson
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the dangers associated with nuclear power, explaining in lay terms the problems of storage of waste material and the extreme toxicity of radioactive substances. The film has a clear anti-nuclear bias.

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  5. Phedre (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; French studies
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 105 minutes), REFERENCE ONLY

    Video recording using two cameras of a performance of ‘Phedre’ by Jean Racine, in a new version by Ted Hughes. Directed by Jonathan Kent and performed by the Almeida Theatre Company with Diana Rigg, Toby...

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  6. Fishing Party, The (1972)

    Director
    Michael Simpson
    Subject
    Social Studies; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 57 minutes), £7.99

    Three Leeds miners enjoy a weekend fishing trip, neglect their skipper’s advice about drinking on the boat and quickly find themselves suffering the consequences as they head further out to sea. The play...

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  7. Inspector Calls, An (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    VHS (PAL, 110 minutes), REFERENCE ONLY

    Video recording using three cameras of the Royal National Theatre production of ‘An Inspector Calls’ by J B Priestley at the Aldwych Theatre, London, on 9 February 1994. Directed by Stephen Daldry,...

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  8. Plays for Britain: The Complete Series (2013)

    Director
    Michael Apted; Jim Goddard; Leslie Blair; Peter Gill; Alan Clarke; Philip Saville
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 325 minutes), £19.99

    Thames Television series which was first broadcast in the mid-1970s, featuring six contemporary plays by writers then at relatively early stages in their careers. Stephen Poliakoff’s HITTING TOWN is an...

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  9. Romantics and Realists (1870-C1920) (1984 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) 1997 sale: £89.95 (+VAT +p&p) series of 16 programmes

    Readings from Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, E A Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. Ashcroft and Glover read from Hardy: ‘The Ruined Maid’, ‘In Church’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘I Looked into my...

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  10. Real Eve, The (2004)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £19.99

    Documentary examining the theory that everyone in the world is related to one woman who lived in east Africa 140,000 years ago. It also reconsiders the migration of humans from Africa to the rest of the...

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