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  1. Making Things Last: Heartfelt Beating

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    179
    NoS ID
    325759
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: New ways of preserving life, limb - and materials. After a heart attack, the heart may be in a weakened state. If a pacemaker is needed, it normally imposes its own rhythm on the heart, which...

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  2. Atlas Of The Earth

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    117
    NoS ID
    329554
    Story no
    2 / 4

    COI synopsis: There’s more to this atlas than maps... it sets out to satisfy our curiosity about the various forms of life on Earth, and to relate the development of the Earth and us to time and space.

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  3. Leafless Pea

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    117
    NoS ID
    329555
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Earth resources are limited, and it’s up to us to make the best possible use of them. The crops we grow are among the most important, and this is just one example of the work geneticists are...

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  4. Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: Wood Wool Walls

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    181
    NoS ID
    325767
    Story no
    1 / 3

    COI synopsis: In science, as in every-day life, things aren’t always quite what they seem... A new way of building: slabs based on wood shavings are clipped together into a type of hollow wall that serves...

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  5. Things Aren’t Always What They Seem: Radar Map Matching

    Date released
    1976
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    181
    NoS ID
    325769
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: In science, as in every-day life, things aren’t always quite what they seem... Viewed from the air, even the most obvious landmarks can seem deceptively different. A new type of map for...

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  6. London Calling

    Series name
    London Line
    Issue no
    587
    NoS ID
    326877
    Story no
    1 / 1

    COI synopsis: The BBC’s External Services broadcast to 70 million listeners all over the world, are on the air for 24 hours a day, and put out programmes in 39 languages. London Line looks at a typical...

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  7. Water Resources

    Series name
    Tomorrow Today
    Issue no
    117
    NoS ID
    329556
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Water is vital to our food and to us, yet even in countries with heavy rainfall we are close to using more than Nature can supply. In North Wales they’re using computer control and rain...

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  8. The Post Office Underground Railway

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    18
    NoS ID
    350148
    Story no
    4 / 4

    COI synopsis: Three billion travellers a year use London’s complex underground railway system - but how many of them know about a miniature train that carries its unseen cargo under the metropolis day by...

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  9. Ingenuity: One Time Weeding

    Date released
    1975
    Series name
    Living Tomorrow
    Issue no
    170
    NoS ID
    325721
    Story no
    3 / 4

    COI synopsis: Solutions to some everyday problems that didn’t need high technology to be resolved, but just a bit of ingenuity. Pull up one weed and you leave enough seeds still hidden in the soil to...

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  10. Indian Republic Day

    Date released
    9 Feb 1967
    Series name
    Pathe News
    Issue no
    67/12
    NoS ID
    112413
    Story no
    4 / 5
    Extras
    1 film clip

    India’s Independence Day is a huge and colourful affair as a nation celebrates the anniversary of its emergence as a Republic in the Commonwealth.

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