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  1. Instant Armchair

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    32
    NoS ID
    350920
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: A fifteen second reaction between two chemicals producing a cushion of flexible foam has been used by a go ahead manufacturer to produce what is described as the first "instant armchair".

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  2. Insulin Gives Up Secrets

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    26
    NoS ID
    350884
    Story no
    5 / 5

    COI synopsis: After 34 years of intensive research, Nobel Prize winner Professor Dorothy Hodgkin recently announced the discovery of the crystalline structure of insulin - vital knowledge in the fight...

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  3. Throwaway Sheets

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    26
    NoS ID
    325351
    Story no
    1 / 5

    COI synopsis: Paper makes the housewife’s washday dream come true. For a 25 bedroom hotel the paper sheet can slash dramatically, the £2,500 a year laundry bill.

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  4. Hover Hornet Is New Fun Mobile

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    28
    NoS ID
    350893
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: Making its debut at the International Boat Show in London the Hover Hornet is a go-anywhere fun-runabout for sand, snow or water.

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  5. Wind Tunnel For Plants

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    32
    NoS ID
    350919
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: From a zephyr soft breeze to a roaring gale - with controlled temperature and humidity - a wind tunnel at Edinburgh University has given botanists a unique tool for the study of crop development.

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  6. Captain Cook Exhibition

    Date released
    25 Feb 1979
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    2595
    NoS ID
    031259
    Story no
    1 / 3

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Captain Cook Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Captain Cook, an exhibition has been mounted at the Museum of Mankind in Bloomsbury. SHOTLIST:...

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  7. Robin Cook on patients charter (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Paul Rowley interviews Labour Party health spokesman Robin Cook who claims the Government’s new patient charter is meaningless unless the funds are provided to improve the service.

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  8. Old Glass Fibre Pub

    Date released
    1970
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    26
    NoS ID
    350881
    Story no
    2 / 5

    COI synopsis: Glass fibre moulds are reproducing the ancient timbered atmosphere of old English pubs in the most unlikely places. Elizabethan, Georgian, Victorian interiors - all are for export to order.

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  9. Robin Cook on Government’s health paper (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Report on a news conference by Labour Party MP Robin Cook following his obtaining a leaked copy of the Government’s green paper on health promotion. Includes excerpt of conference on what Cook would like...

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  10. Richard Ingrams on Peter Cook (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; Tribute

    Former Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams on comedian Peter Cook who has died aged 57 and was an investor in the magazine. Male interviewer not identified. Audio slightly muffled.

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