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Date released

1965

Series name

Frontier

Issue no

6

NoS ID

324972

Story no

1 / 1

NoS synopsis: Describes a large-scale experiment undertaken by the University of London, Institute of Education, begun in 1961 and involving over 10,000 children, to teach them to read using the Initial...

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Why Maths Doesn’t Add Up (2009)

aka: Alan and Marcus Go Forth and Multiply

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Ever since he was at school, actor and comedian Alan Davies has hated maths. And like many people, he is not much good at it either. But with the help of Oxford’s Professor Marcus du Sautoy, Alan is going...

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Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (2008 Video)

aka: Merchant of Venice, The

Director

Stefan Pucher

Video recording of Stefan Pucher’s production of The Merchant of Venice for the Schauspielhaus, Zurich with Robert Hunger-Bühler as Shylock.

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Music of the Primes, The (2004)

Subject

Mathematics; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes (approx)), £12.00

A recording of a lecture delivered as part of the London Mathematical Society’s Popular Lecture series by Professor Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University. A million dollars awaits the person who can...

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Bubble Trouble (3 Parts) (2000 Video)

Producer

Bill Treharne Jones; Marcus Kiggell

Subject

Economics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

Series documenting the speculative fever that gripped the Japanese economy in the 1980s and the financial crash that followed.

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Hunt for A.I., The (2012)

Director

Helen Sage

Producer

Helen Sage

Subject

Information technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Professor Marcus Du Sautoy investigates Artificial Intelligence and asks what it would mean if one day machines could think like people. He begins by asking what thinking is and whether it is this that makes...

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Precision: The Measure of All Things (2013)

Director

Mike Cunliffe

Producer

Mark Woodward

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £41.99

Series in which Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement....

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Marcus Gheeraerts II: Elizabethan Artist (2011)

Subject

Art; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 35 minutes), £14.99

Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time,...

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Code, The (2011)

Subject

Mathematics

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 3180 minutes), £15.00

Hidden in the world around us are mysterious symbols and bizarre numbers. Do they hold the key to understanding the universe? Professor Marcus du Sautoy takes us on a gripping treasure hunt to discover the...

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Art is... The Permanent Revolution (2012)

Director

Manfred Kirchheimer

Subject

Art; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 82 minutes), $27.95

This documentary looks at the portrayal of social reality and political protest in art -particular graphic art and print - and examines how the power of the medium has, in the hands of practitioners like...

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