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Live Wire

Date released

6 Oct 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2105

NoS ID

028032

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Live Wire. DESCRIPTION: Wearing a specially designed suit that conducts electricity, a linesman demonstrates the new technique that allows working on Power Lines without switching off...

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Careers in Science: Mass Production Engineer (2009)

Subject

Engineering

Profile of Faye Banks, who is the only female engineer at the Lever Plant in Leeds. Despite having a hard childhood (leaving home at 10 years old, being taken into care at 15 and failing her GCSEs first...

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Hamlet (1936 Radio)

Series

Columbia Workshop

Director

Irving Reis

Radio broadcast. Ray Collins reads from Hamlet including the entire ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy. To demonstrate the quality of older and newer microphones, the sound engineer switches microphones...

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Engineer freed from Libyan jail (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Report on engineer Robert Maxwell being released from jail in Libya after being held for 6 years on charges of economic espionage following pleas made to Libyan leader, Colonel Qaddafi by his wife Grace and...

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Portsea Island Discs: David Whiting, journalist, engineer and animal welfare worker (1984)

This week, Andy Ferriss talks to David Whiting. He is the driving force behind compassionate world farming and a journalist, an aero space and weapon development engineer, an animal spy, and the stepson of...

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Great Western Railway [Part 1] (1985)

A documentary about the Great Western railway company, recounting its history since the days of the legendary engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and the first train journey in June 1833.

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Radio interviews with leading scientists

Date

27 Jun 2016, 15:07

Author

Cathy Grant

Post Type

Post

The Life Scientific, a new series of 30-minute programmes, begins this morning on Radio 4 at 9.00, repeated in the evening at 9.30. Each week Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at Surrey University, will...

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The Other Man’s Job No 4

Date released

13 Jan 1936

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

303

NoS ID

123425

Story no

1 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

The Chief Engineer - the other man’s job is always ineresting , beacause it d... our own - but when it happens to be a ship’s officer, an engineer or a wireless operator aboard a great liner like the...

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Girl on the Line

Date released

15 Jan 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/5

NoS ID

112371

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

An unusual sight in a London suburb recently was a girl at the top of a telegraph pole. She is Jackie Hunter, a 25 year old with big ambitions. She is the first woman telephone engineer for the Post Office,...

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Miss England II is Out to Win

Date released

15 Jan 1931

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

84A

NoS ID

002813

Story no

3 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Miss England II Is Out to Win. DESCRIPTION: Chief Engineer Wilcox describes the late Sir Henry Segrave’s Record chaser. SHOTLIST: Side view of Miss England II on slip way surrounded...

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