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  1. This Week: Volume 1 (2014)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £9.60

    THIS WEEK was the first weekly current-affairs programme aired on commercial television in the UK. Beginning in 1956 as a light, magazine-style show punctuated by more serious items, by the mid-1960s it...

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  2. Bully: Something About a Uniform (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Julian Mercer
    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Three 16-year-old army recruits, sent to Whittington Barracks on a training course in July 1992, were subjected to violence and sexual degradation by their training officers, two of whom were...

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  3. Guide to Armageddon, A (1983 Video)

    Director
    Mick Jackson
    Subject
    Social welfare; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    Examines the effects of nuclear weapons. Looks at the physical effects of a single medium-sized nuclear warhead on a large city such as London, questioning how effective the various types of shelter might...

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  4. Swastika (1973)

    Director
    Philippe Mora
    Producer
    David Puttnam
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes + 82 minutes extras), £11.99

    Met with a tumultuous reception at Cannes in 1973, Swastika was subsequently banned in Germany until 2010, when it was acknowledged for its significant contribution to understanding Hitler and Nazism; as...

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  5. Date with History, A: Hiroshima (1965 Video)

    aka: Date with History, A

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (81 minutes)

    Follows the history of the war in the Pacific, tracing the American successes at Midway, the Solomons, the Gilberts, and the Marianas Islands, leading up to the decision to use the atomic bomb. Details the 6...

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  6. Tonight [22/11/1975] (Television)

    Subject
    Drama

    Twice-weekly television news magazine programme. In this episode Ludovic Kennedy interviews Peggy Ashcroft. In her first television interview Dame Peggy speaks of her unease at the way stage drama translates...

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