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City week (1979)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech

City Week. The week’s news as seen by IRN’s Financial Unit. Presented by Tom Maddocks. The main topics are the elections, the value of the pound, and taxation. Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Hayes on Sunday (1978)

Genre

Interview

Hayes on Sunday. Brian Hayes visits the Motor Show at Birmingham’s NEC, and considers strikes, under-productivity and bad management, and alternative ways of powering a car. He also looks at the threat...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Succession (1986 Video)

Producer

Aileen Llewellyn

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Discusses the plant succession that takes place on sand dunes. The sand dunes at Braunton Burrows in North Devon provide the study example.

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Battle of the Bison Forest (1985 Film)

Director

Anthony Bomford

Producer

Jeremy Bradshaw

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Looks at the depopulation and restocking of the bison herds of the Bialowieza Forest on the border of Poland and the USSR, a herd now threatened by the lack of control on hunting in the area.

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Arrows Against the Wind (1992 Video)

Producer

Tracey Groome

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

Portrays the cultural beliefs of the Dani and Asmat, two tribal groups in West Papua (Irian Jayan), and the social, political and environmental upheaval following Indonesia’s invasion of the country in 1963.

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Can we Have Green Equality? (2012)

aka: Is Green Equality Possible? Reconciling Planet, People and Prosperity

Subject

Environmental science

Kate Raworth, Senior Researcher at Oxfam Great Britain explores the question of what it would take to achieve global ‘green growth’ with equity.

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Stripping of Appalachia, The (1972 Film)

Director

John Slater

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Appalachian countryside in the United States is gradually being denuded by strip coal mining. Shows how natural resources are being exploited without regard to the ecological changes which affect both...

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Life in a Tropical Forest (1971 Film)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows aspects of life in a tropical rain forest on Barro Colorado in Panama which is used as a base for scientific investigation under the Smithsonian Institute. Illustrates the diversity of animals and...

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Darwin’s Nightmare (2010)

Director

Hubert Sauper

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 111 minutes)

The African nation of Tanzania has a booming business selling fish to Europe, but its citizens live in a state of horrific poverty and degradation. Filmmaker Hubert Sauper uses his documentary DARWIN’S...

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Three Films from Eastern Indonesia (2006)

Director

James J Fox; Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £50.00

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