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  1. To Walk Invisible (2017)

    Director
    Sally Wainwright
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.99

    Sally Wainwright writes and directs this one-off British television drama which follows the lives of renowned authors the Brontë sisters. Set in 1840s Yorkshire, sisters Anne (Charlie Murphy), Charlotte...

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  2. Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    A film poem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, performed by Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon. [60 minutes]

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  3. Patience (After Sebald) (2011)

    Director
    Grant Gee
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £15.99

    Film essay based on the work and life of German writer W.G. Sebald, with particular reference to his book The Rings of Saturn, a melancholy and atmospheric account of a walking tour of Suffolk, in which...

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  4. Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, The (2009)

    Director
    Peter Hall; Trevor Nunn; John Barton; Adrian Noble; Sam Mendes; Michael Boyd; Gregory Doran; Peter Brook; Bill Alexander; David Thacker
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 150 minutes), £15.50

    Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...

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  5. Cretaceous Greenhouse World, The: Poles Apart (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Paleobotanist Bob Spicer examines various field sites in New Zealand and several exotic locations around the world to show how plants and their fossils can give detailed information about the earth’s...

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  6. Daisyworld (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    sALE, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows James Lovelock, the originator of the Gaia hypothesis, at work at his home in Commbe Mill in Devon, surrounded by things and places that have inspired his writing. Looks at the Daisyworld modelling and...

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  7. Did Tibet Cool the Earth? (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In September 1994 an international expedition to Tibet to investigate a controversy linking the uplift of the Tibetan plateau with changes in the earth’s climate - with cooling and the strengthening of the...

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  8. K-T Event, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows evidence for an extraterrestrial object colliding with the earth - the Chicxulub impact crater of more than 200km in diameter in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, rocks in Haiti and northern Mexico, and...

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  9. Nature of Impacts and Their Impacts on Nature, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the evidence for and the effects of extraterrestrial impacts on the earth’s surface. Asks if scientists really know whether a crater on earth was produced as a result of impact with a rock from...

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  10. Volcanoes and the Atmosphere (1997 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Environmental science; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 2006 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the mechanisms by which volcanic eruptions can cause short-term global effects and explores their possible role in profound environmental change. Shows the nature and extent of plateau lava...

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