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How the Digital Revolution is Changing the Way we Discover, Create and Consume Media (2007)

Subject

Information technology; Media studies

Audio recording of a lecture given on 11/10/2007 by David Jennings as part of the RSA’s Thursday lecture series. In today’s world of blogs, social networks, recommender systems and infinite digital shelf...

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Town of Runners

Director

Jerry Rothwell

Subject

Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £5.99

Feature documentary about the phenomenon of Bekoji, a small town in the Arsi region of Ethiopia, which produced the athletes who won all four gold medals in the long distance track events at the 2008 Beijing...

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Why Planes Vanish (2014)

Director

Miles O’Brien; Tristan Quinn

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Television documentary. The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014 stunned the world. In an era of smart-phones and GPS, how could a 270-ton passenger jet vanish? The programme tells the...

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Britain’s Trillion Pound Horror Story (2010)

Subject

Economics

Film maker Martin Durkin explains the full extent of the financial mess we are in: an estimated £4.8 trillion of national debt and counting. It’s so big that even if every home in the UK was sold it...

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Swan Migration (2006)

Subject

Biology

In 2003 BBC Radio 4’s Natural History Unit joined forces with the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust to discover more about the behaviour of some of our favourite winter visitors. Six swans from Arctic Russia...

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History of Animation in Court Series (2006)

Subject

Information technology; Law

A continuing series of video podcasts of some of the computer animations that have been used in USA courtrooms over the last 20 years. Z-Axis Corporation was a pioneer in the creation of animated trial...

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Music Instinct, The: Science and Song (2010)

Director

Elenea Mannes

Subject

Biology; Music; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $24.99

While listening to music, neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, asks the questions "where do goose bumps come from?" and "what’s going on in my brain that allows the goosebumps to happen?" Levitin leads a group...

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Sky at Night Series, The (2004)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

Monthly astronomy programmes from the BBC SKY AT NIGHT series, presented by Patrick Moore, are available for free viewing online. The archive contains programmes broadcast since December 2001 and new...

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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James May’s Twentieth Century (6 Parts) (2007)

aka: James May’s 20th Century

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £39.99

Documentary series about 20th century innovations. Separate programmes cover worldwide travel and communications, space exploration, how warfare drives ingenuity, emergence of the teenager, and urbanisation.

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