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Life in Space (1996 Video)

Director

Peter Howell

Producer

Harold Kroto

Subject

Physics; Space science

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

Helen Sharman, the UK’s first female astronaut, gives an account of her personal experiences of life in space, using models and film to illustrate the key scientific concepts involved in space flight....

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Shakespeare Audiotapes, Series

The pre-recorded programmes in this series combine academic criticism and actors’ rehearsals of key scenes and speeches. The scenes rehearsed on the second side of the tapes are directed by John Russell...

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Flight in Birds and Aeroplanes (1996 Video)

Director

Peter Howell

Subject

Biology; Physics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £12.50 (+VAT inc. p&p)

John Maynard Smith describes the way flight developed in the animal kingdom: the fossil record indicates that the long tails which stabilised the flight of the first birds evolved into shorter, less stable...

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Mental Health Act 1983, The (1983 Video)

Director

Peter Badger; Martin Harrison; Yvette Vanson

Subject

Law; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

Each of four parts presents basic information about the Act and contains interviews with the following experts: Lord Renton, QC, Larry Gostin, William Bingley and Oliver Thorold. The individual parts are 1:...

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Qualified to Work? (1990 Video)

Producer

Nick Brenton

Subject

Education

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

How important are qualifications in getting work? How are they perceived by employers and employees? Do they debase the education system? In 1985 Jill Howard of Sussex University conducted a research...

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Way of Working with Profoundly Mentally Handicapped Adults, A (4 Parts) (1982 Video)

Director

Yvette Vanson

Subject

Social welfare

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 4 x 12 min.

Part 1 looks at The Walnut Tree intensive support unit run by Lambeth Social Services and shows the positive and energetic approach of a group of staff working with profoundly mentally handicapped adults in...

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Moon and the Sledgehammer, The (1971)

Director

Philip Trevelyan

Producer

Jimmy Vaughan

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £16.99

Documentary by Philip Trevelyan about the Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The sons make a living as odd job men and...

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Bernal and the Social Function of Science (1996 Video)

aka: Social Function of Science, The

Director

Peter Howell

Subject

Biology; Chemistry

Distribution

Sale

Chris Freeman, the founder and first director of the Science Policy Research Unit, introduces John Bernal, the father of the protein crystallography techniques that enabled the double helix structure of DNA...

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Worthing Public Library (1980 Video)

Director

Brian Hill

Subject

Librarianship

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 33 min., 1997 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Using interviews with staff, John Allen, who is County Librarian of East Sussex, illustrates the services and modern facilities offered to the community by Worthing Public Library in West Sussex. With John...

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Mass Observation Communities Online (Moco) Workshop Videos (2010)

Subject

Social sciences

Video recordings of two presentations given at the July 2010 workshop of the Mass Observation Communities Online project. Dorothy Sheridan, Ddrector of the project, discusses two of the main Mass Observation...

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