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Universities’ paid athletes

Date released

May 1936

Series name

The March of Time 2nd Year

Issue no

6

NoS ID

352144

Story no

3 / 3

The March of Time synopsis: As forty million fans pack huge football grounds and countless others tune in to the autumn’s big games, a new and jarring note is heard. Mixed with the cheers and music is paid...

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Predatory Tactics (1997 Video)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £39.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Close-up study of the survival tactics of single-celled organisms, using high magnification and time-lapse filming techniques. Micropredators are shown using vortices, sticky webs, lassoes, deceit, and jaws.

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Prince of Jutland (1993 Film, Video)

aka: Royal Deceit

Director

Gabriel Axel

Producer

Kees Kasander

An interpretation of the Hamlet story, based on the 6th-century Danish source Chronicle of Saxo Grammaticus, a possible source for Shakespeare’s play. Prince Amled (Bale) witnesses his father’s murder...

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Director on Circle of Deceit film (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a German film director (poss. Volker Schlondorff) on a film entitled Circle of Deceit (Die Falschung) based on the late journalist Nicholas Born’s experiences of the civil war in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Disablement pensions swindle (1978)

Genre

News report

Paul Woodley reports on a Whitehall swindle that kept money from ex-Army officers. An injured Colonel persevered to get his full Disablement Army Officer Pensions. Ombudsman Sir Idwal Pugh condemns Whitehall...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Privatisation debate on British Rail (1993)

Genre

News report; Parliamentary debate

Des Fahy reports on the debate over the bill to privatise British Rail. In the House of Commons, Transport Secretary, John MacGregor defends the bill, and says that ample time for debate has already been...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Eunuch, The (1999 Video)

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 2001 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A performance of Terence’s Latin satire ‘The Eunuch’ by staff and students of the departments of Classics and Drama at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in a new translation by John...

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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1993)

Director

Mark Achbar; Peter Wintonick

Producer

Mark Achbar; Peter Wintonick

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 167 + 215 minutes), £19.56

In an energetic fusion of images and ideas, Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of the controversial author, linguistic scholar, radical philosopher and activist, Noam Chomsky. Using...

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Kurt Schwitters (2014)

aka: The Schwitters Scandal

Director

Simon Chu

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £17.99

The Kurt Schwitters scandal was pure DADA. Whilst he was alive, Schwitters provoked the art world with his one-man Dada movement, Merz, which united painting, sculpture, architecture and literature in...

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Argent, L’ (2008)

Director

Marcel L’Herbier

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £22.99

Adapted from Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, Marcel L’Herbier’s L’ARGENT is an opulent classic of late silent-era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it reveals a...

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