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  1. Afghanistan: The Great Game (2013)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £12.99

    Rory Stewart tells the story of foreign intervention in Afghanistan from the 19th century to the present day. In part 1, Stewart looks at how control of Afghanistan was seen by Victorian Britain as key to...

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  2. London: A Tale of Two Cities (2013)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.99

    Presenter Dan Cruickshank explores the history of London in the 17th century via witnesses John Stow and John Strype, whose surveys and observations depict a city surviving war, plague and fire to become one...

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  3. History of Tractors (2013)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £12.99

    A detailed history of tractors.

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  4. Home Front Britain with Jim Carter (2011)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Ruby Grierson; Jack Lee; Brian Desmond Hurst
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 270 minutes), £19.99

    The six-part documentary series, Home Front Britain With Jim Carter, looks at the British home front during World War II. Presented by British actor Jim Carter, the series explores the archives of British...

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  5. Story of Margaret Thatcher, The (2010)

    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £19.99

    This programme profiles the life and career of controversial British prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Dubbed ‘The Iron Lady’ by friends and foes alike, Thatcher led her country through the hard times of...

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  6. Stephen Hawking’s Universe (2010)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 174 minutes (DVD) 240 minutes (Blu-ray)), £24.99

    Series of six programmes in which Professor Stephen Hawking considers topics in cosmology. 1: Explores mathematics and how it revolutionised our view of the universe. Covers Ptolemy’s theory of the motion...

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  7. Bitter Taste of Tea, The: A Journey into the World of Fair Trade (2010)

    aka: Den Bitre Smag Af Te

    Director
    Tom Heinemann
    Subject
    Agriculture; Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 58 minutes), 28 euros

    This programme travels to tea estates in Sri Lanka, Kenya, India, and Bangladesh—some traditional, some fair trade—to expose unsafe work environments and labour exploitation. The workers are plucking tea...

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  8. James May’s Big Ideas (2009)

    Subject
    Energy; Engineering; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    In this 3-part television series James May travels across the UK, US, Spain, Germany, Holland, Japan, Russia, and Ireland to find examples of cutting-edge science and technological innovation. Individual...

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  9. Brits Who Made the Modern World (2009)

    Subject
    Engineering; Technology

    Series of six 30-minute programmes in which Peter Snow looks at the untold stories of British scientists and engineers who developed some of the modern world’s most incredible technology. The series covers...

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  10. World’s Lost Tribes (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £29.99

    Six-part documentary series in which extreme travellers Mark Anstice and Olly Steed venture into the jungles of West Papua to live with the Kombai tribe, who were discovered only 25 years ago. Largely cut...

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