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Jan Svankmajer’s surreal version of the Faust legend. Uses live action, animation and grotesque puppets. Based on the Faust plays by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christopher Marlowe....
Follows Andrew Webber, a five-year-old boy whose behaviour causes serious concern, and his family as they undergo therapy at London’s Maudsley Hospital. Demonstrates techniques including individual therapy...
Investigates musical talent, or giftedness, in young people. Recent research by Professor Michael Howe and John Sloboda on the development of musical ability is illustrated by mini-portraits of six young...
Questions Piaget’s theory that children go through a universal development process, discussing new evidence about cultural influences. The argument is illustrated by looking at children’s drawings in...
Looks at the German social security system through the eyes of three Berlin families. Notes the various benefits available to the unemployed and at the way different groups benefit in different ways....
Looks at the impact of increased unemployment in East Berlin as a result of German unification, examining the stresses and strains felt by families in the Berlin suburbs of Pankow and Hellersdorf, and at the...
Examines the influence of Newton on scientific thinking in the 18th century, and the rise of what became known as Newtonianism. Discusses ‘Principia Mathematica’ and ‘Optics’, which gave rise to the...
The foundation of the Royal Society, and the nature of the scientific community within which it functioned. There were few professional ‘scientists’ in the modern sense in late 17th-century Britain, but...
Series tracing the development of the computer.
Looks at the history of the persecution by European settlers of the American Indian nations. In two parts: 1) Wildnerness; Shows how Puritan prejudices helped to generate false views of Indians; 2)...
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