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Something new under the sun

Date released

1946

Series name

Britain Can Make It

Issue no

5

NoS ID

352049

Story no

2 / 3

COI synopsis: Every now and then the sun behaves in a very strange way - and this behaviour is due to things called sunspots. Sunspots are actually whirlpool craters of flame, which appear on the sun’s...

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Wired (2001)

Subject

Engineering; Physics

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 10 minutes), £ 15 per item or £ 100 for the whole set (inclusive)

One of a series of 13 short films about remarkable scientific discoveries by Nobel prizewinners and their colleagues. This film looks at how radio, television and the computer have changed our lives through...

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Rough Science - Series 1 (4 Parts) (2000)

Producer

Paul Manners

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.50

Series in which five scientists are taken to a remote Mediterranean island, left with only the most basic of equipment and asked to use their scientific knowledge as survival skills to demonstrate how useful...

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Gimme That Old Time Radio! (2003)

Subject

Media studies; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 NTSC, 78 minutes), $9.99

Six US-produced films, produced between 1927 and 1958, about the history and format of radio.

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Radio Broadcast History Films DVD (2007)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 180 minutes), $9.99

A collection of archival films relating to the history of radio broadcasting.

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Nobel’s Greatest Hits: Science (2001)

aka: Understand Science: Nobel’s Greatest Hits Explained

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £15.99

Five 10-minute programmes from the series NOBEL’S GREATEST HITS on topics relating to advances in science and understanding that have brought us to the brink of controlling and destroying our world .

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