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Double bill of BBC films featuring narration from the poet John Betjeman. THANK GOD IT’S SUNDAY (1972) takes a look at how Londoners spend their Sundays. SUMMONED BY BELLS (1976), based on Betjeman’s...
This week updates to websites in the fields of biological research, multimedia training, chemistry and experimental/art films. SpectraSchool A site entirely devoted to spectroscopy, produced in close...
Shot in the Chernobyl region during the months following the nuclear disaster in April 1986. It covers the huge clean-up operation and shows the evacuated village of Pripyat and interviews evacuees. Also...
Sir John Betjeman reads his verse autobiography, describing the pains and pleasures of growing up. Covers his earliest boyhood memories of Highgate and of Archibald, his old stuffed bear, through to his...
Sir John Betjeman takes an unashamedly nostalgic journey through his earliest memories, in a classic television documentary based on his autobiography. He revisits scenes of his childhood including his prep...
Recorded at the Poetry Society, 1967. Contents: Side 1: ‘Middlesex’, ‘Eunice’, ‘The Irish Unionist’s Farewell to Greta Hellstrom 1922’, ‘Caprice’, from ‘Beside the Seaside’; ‘Business...
A video-based package, with film of songs and dances carried out by the wives of King Gbèfa (1948-1976) from the palace at Porto-Novo in Benin. The women sing long poems ‘a capella’ while resting on...
A documentary showing the craft of bellringing as seen from the inside. From the origin of bells to modern day ringing, from small-town parishes to some of the most famous cathedrals, the film covers...
Records the activity of bell ringing. Scenes show the use of the bell to announce impending church services. Shows the working of bells in detail, in particular the trajectory on the swing of the bell. A...
Morris Dancing is a form of English folk dancing that dates back to the 15th Century, in which men in costumes adorned with bells would offer their version of the dance of the Moors, with scarves, sticks and...
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