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  1. Life with Baby

    Date released
    1946
    Series name
    The March of Time 11th Year
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    352262
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: Over ten million babies! That’s the startling total of births in the United States between Pearl Harbour and V-J Day, says the March of Time’s "Life with Baby" which deals...

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  2. Disappearing Childhood (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Neil Postman argues that childhood is disappearing as a result of watching television. Shows that children are not passive receivers of their culture but active agents in their own socialisation and...

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  3. When Shakespeare was a Boy (1931 Radio)

    Series
    History: Children of Other Days: 1485-1789, 2

    Radio schools broadcast. The second story in the ten-part history series by Rhoda Power features an imaginary account of Shakespeare’s childhood intended for 13-14 year old schoolchildren.

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  4. BUFVC Weekly Top 5 TV and Radio Programme Requests

    Date
    8 Nov 2013, 17:12
    Author
    Markeda Cole
    Post Type
    Post

    For the week ending 1 Nov 2013 the most requested programmes from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service were: 1. THE INVENTION OF CHILDHOOD (BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA) View TRILT record For more information,...

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  5. Creation of Childhood, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Eleanor Morris
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at Neil Postman’s controversial theory that childhood was created by the printing press. Discusses what a child’s life was like in the medieval period prior to the invention of the printing press...

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  6. My Favourite Things (1997)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R), £34.99 (CM)

    Visits seven households in the UK to consider the meanings that people attach to objects in the home. Shows how, despite individual variations, each household reveals patterns of importance attached to...

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  7. Coleridge: The Fountain and the Cave (1972)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £14.10

    Shot in some of his best loved locations, this programme portrays the life and poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poems and excerpts from Coleridge’s letters and diaries, are read by Paul Scofield. Covers...

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  8. Yesterday’s Britain: ‘Doon the Watter’ (1988 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 1997 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A compilation of three short British Transport films. 1 (1966): Emotional qualities of life in Glasgow. Traces the Glasgow man from the inhabitant of a Clydeside hamleet tot he beneficiary and victim of a...

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  9. Assassino e Quello con le Scarpe Gialle (1995 Film)

    aka: Assassin Wore Yellow Shoes, The

    Director
    Filippo Ottoni
    Producer
    Fulvio Lucisano; Guido De Laurentis; Leonardo Pescarolo

    Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...

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  10. Fateless (2006)

    Director
    Lajos Koltai
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), £19.99

    Imre Kertész’s adaptation of his own Nobel prize-winning novel (based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy who tries to come to terms with the new hellish world that faces him when he is sent...

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