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  1. Ike and Kefauver Lead in Election Pointers

    Date released
    17 Mar 1952
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    2196
    NoS ID
    043570
    Story no
    1 / 7

    US primaries give great start to campaigns of General Eisenhower and Senator Keufauver.

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  2. Gambler’s Guide to Winning, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Julian Nott
    Producer
    Carey Barraclough
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 sale: £20.00 Academy 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) retail

    Using computer technology, a group of mathematicians have devised gambling strategies. Interviews casino bosses, hopeful gamblers and the professors.

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  3. Music Box, The (1957 Television)

    Director
    Douglas Hurn

    Television musical variety show. The second half of the programme is wholly devoted to a performance of the Pyramus and Thisbe scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V.i) performed by the Crazy Gang. Sets...

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  4. Beyond Genetics (2016)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 23 minutes), £25.00

    This three part film, which features contributions from Dr Nessa Carey and Dr Guy Sutton, looks at recent developments in the field of epigenetics, in order to demonstrate that the way genes work is in fact...

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  5. Lifting Trees Roots and All

    Date released
    1959
    Series name
    Rhodesian Spotlight
    Issue no
    80
    NoS ID
    351324
    Story no
    3 / 5

    BFI synopsis: The Carey Stumper new invention.

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  6. Simon Schama’s John Donne (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    Simon Schama celebrates the life and work of one of Britain’s greatest love poets, John Donne. For Schama, Donne is the poet who transformed English poetry through his emotional honesty and skilled use of...

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  7. Imposter, The (2013)

    Director
    Bart Layton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £15.99

    Documentary, featuring dramatised sections, telling the story of French-Algerian Frédéric Bourdin, who convinced the Barclay family from Antonio Texas, that he was in fact their son Nicholas, who had...

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  8. Antony and Cleopatra (1997 Video)

    Director
    Ron Daniels

    Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre’s 1996 production of Antony and Cleopatra directed for stage by Ron Daniels and videotaped for WAPAVA by James J. Taylor. Tom Hewitt and Helen Carey in the title...

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  9. Predicting Personality (2002)

    Subject
    Biology; Psychology
    Distribution
    Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

    The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of John Carey, Jeffrey Gray, Peter McGuffin and Mike Maier, discuss to what extent personality is dictated by our genetic makeup. Groundbreaking new...

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  10. Beast with Two Backs, A (2015)

    Director
    Lionel Harris
    Producer
    Patrick Barr (3)
    Subject
    Drama

    Dennis Potter’s television drama. The story tells of an Italian showman and his dancing bear arriving in the neighbourhood at the same time a violent attack occurs. The scapegoats are the bear and a...

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