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Considers the pollution of the River Thames, tracing the history of the problem from the 19th century and showing the improvement brought about in recent years by the construction of two sewage treatment works.
Discoveries made in Africa have revolutionised long-held views of how mankind evolved. This video explores how anthropologists are able to piece together the jigsaw of man’s ancestry.
An account of fraud - because of computer troubles the Equity Funding Corporation of America in 1969 was unable to make an accurate profit forecast and guessed very inaccurately. Two young executives fed...
A 6-part look at the skill of the potter, past and present, considering the work and ideas of leading British potters: 1) clay and its preparation, and how to make pinch, coil and slab pots; 2) the use of a...
Report on the health service in Tanzania where conventional systems have been rejected for a less costly reliance on medical aides and village health workers, rather than fully trained doctors.
Examines a new way of understanding blindness and the blind, demonstrating a range of ways in which blind people are coping with their difficulties. Also highlights the problems of blind children.
Investigates the chemical plant explosion at Flixborough in which 28 people died, and asks what lessons can be learned for the future.
Henderson Hospital in Surrey is a mental hospital where patients must make their own rules for social behaviour and face the consequences when these rules are broken. As children the patients have failed to...
A series of documentaries about the individuals who developed the art of photography in its earliest days. 1: The work of William Henry Fox Talbot. 2: The work of Nicephore Niepce and his partnership with...
A series surveying the evolution of architecture in Britain since the Middle Ages. (Part 3 mentions St Paul’s Cathedral).
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