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  1. Future Labs (2005)

    Subject
    Science; Technology

    The three programmes in this series tell the stories of the small groups of research scientists whose inventions in the fields of communications and computing, transport, materials and medicine, changed the...

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  2. Lab and the Mosque, The (2005)

    Subject
    Religious studies; Science

    In the Western world, science and religion occupy different spheres. Religion might sometimes be called on to provide an ethical dimension to a scientific issue, but by and large, it is believed that science...

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  3. Science is Knowledge and Knowledge is Power - A Discussion with Tony Benn (2005)

    Subject
    Politics & government; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 32 minutes), £25.00

    In an interview with Sir Harry Kroto, former UK Minister for Science Tony Benn discusses the interaction between scientists and politicians. Benn, having spent a life-time as a leading politician closely...

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  4. Science of Detecting Fakes and Forgeries, The (2004)

    Subject
    Science

    The spiralling prices paid for antiquities have boosted the quantity, range and sophistication of fakes. As knowledge of the appropriate materials and techniques used to make the genuine objects become more...

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  5. David Attenborough: Perception, Deception and Reality (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies; Science

    A recording of the Michael Faraday Lecture delivered by David Attenborough at the Royal Society on 28 January 2004. Once, technical inadequacies led natural history film-makers to distort events or even...

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  6. Nanotechnology (2003)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Free streamed access on Vega website Online, 35 min.

    The panel, chaired by Colin Blakemore and consisting of Sir Harry Kroto (Nobel Prize winner from Sussex University), Jim Gimzewski (leading nano-technologist from IBM), Peter Dobson (Professor at Oxford...

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  7. Rough Science - Series 2: Survival on Carriacou (6 Parts) (2002)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £15.00

    Compilation of the series of 6 programmes in which five scientists are taken to a remote island, left with only the most basic of equipment and asked to use their scientific knowledge as survival skills to...

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  8. Christmas Lectures 1991: Waking Up in the Universe (1991)

    Subject
    Science

    Richard Dawkins presents the first in a series of lectures on the theme of "our own growing knowledge of how life grows up in the universe." (57 minutes). The other lectures in the series are also available...

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  9. Christmas Lectures 1977: The History of Mars (1977)

    Subject
    Astronomy; Science

    Carl Sagan’s introduction to the Red Planet from the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures series from 1977 is streamed here by the Ri Channel as part of a collection of videos gathered under the...

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  10. Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

    Director
    D. I. Yashin
    Subject
    Biology; Science

    Controviersial Soviet medical film showing Dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko using mechanical resuscitation techniques to induce clinical death in a dog which is then revived. Part of the film shows a seemingly...

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