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A High Flyer

Date released

5 Oct 1936

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

651

NoS ID

142731

Story no

3 / 10

Man who climbed nine and a half miles.

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Midsummer Day’s Work, A (1939 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

During the ominously perfect summer that preceded the outbreak of the World War 2 men are laying an underground telephone cable in the Chilterns from Amersham to Aylesbury, about 18 miles. Along the route...

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Shakespeare and the Storytellers (1987 Audio)

Sound recording. Professor Stanley Wells delivers The Shakespeare Lecture at the 1987 Cheltenham Literature Festival. Wells discusses Shakespeare’s plays as retold by Charles and Mary Lamb, Mary Seymour,...

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Duke of Norfolk on spying allegations (1982)

Genre

Interview

The Duke of Norfolk (Miles Francis Stapleton-Fitzalan-Howard) on claims by the former Taoiseach, Charles Haughey that he worked as a spy while employed as the Director of Service Intelligence at the Ministry...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.46: Programme 46 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

Ocean Sound This Week, No 46 Programme 46 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 6 September 1987. Presented by PAUL EASTON....

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Clare Francis on Round the World yacht race (1978)

Genre

Interview

Clare Francis talks about her Round the World yacht race of 27,500 miles. Male interviewer not identified.

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Altitude Hero’s Story

Date released

5 Oct 1936

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

585

NoS ID

034749

Story no

4 / 7

Oxygen fails eight miles up! Terrifying incident on record highest flight told by Squadron Leader Swain.

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Big Geordie takes a walk

Date released

Nov 1977

Series name

Review 31st Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346723

Story no

1 / 1

NCB synopsis: The operation of "Big Geordie" an enormous dragline in the Northumberland coalfields. Europe’s biggest walking dragline is helping to win 12 million tons of opencast coal each year. To do so...

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Chichester Sails Again

Date released

21 Dec 1970

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2168

NoS ID

028625

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chichester Sails Again. DESCRIPTION: That incredible old man of the sea, Sir Francis Chichester, sails away again to try for yet another world record. He aims to break the 200 miles a...

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Three Thousand Miles Alone

Date released

6 Jun 1968

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2035A

NoS ID

027406

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Three Thousand Miles Alone. DESCRIPTION: The longest competitive sailing event in the world - from Plymouth to Newport Rhode Island. Francis Chichester won the first race - in 1960. In...

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