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  1. Biology at War (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 115 min.

    2 (55 min): Explores the history of biological warfare from World War 2 until 1969, when President Nixon renounced American use of biological weapons, and examines current research in the West. Notes that...

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  2. Cruel Choice, The (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Fanny Prior; Sophy Robinson
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Questions whether animal experiments are essential. Professor Zbinden, Director of the Toxicology Unit of Zurich University, is developing more sensitive toxicology tests to replace LD50. The Fund for the...

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  3. Task Force South: The Battle for the Falklands (8 Parts) (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Gordon Carr
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 30 min.

    On 18th March 1982, a group of Argentine scrap-metal merchants raised their country’s flag on the island of South Georgia. It was an act that started a chain of events ending with Britain’s biggest and...

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  4. Wreck and Raising of the ‘Mary Rose’, The. Part 4 (1984 Video)

    Producer
    John Selwyn Gilbert
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 47 min.

    Continues the story of the ‘Mary Rose’ since her raising on 11 October 1982. Now in dry dock at Portsmouth, the hull is constantly sprayed with water to prevent the timbers drying out. Margaret Rule,...

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  5. Impossible Bird, The (1983 Video)

    Director
    Hugh Miles
    Producer
    Richard Brock
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Study of the behaviour of ostriches. Made in Kenya with the co-operation of zoologist Lew Hurxthal who spent eight years conducting his research.

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  6. Micros in the Classroom (5 Parts) (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Education; Information technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 25 min.

    1: A school with a strong tradition of engineering and electronics has been using micros for about three years. Students make early contact with graphics and word processing which they use for letters,...

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  7. Wheels of Fire (10 Parts) (1983 Video)

    Director
    Julian Stenhouse
    Producer
    Howard Smith
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 10 x 30 min.

    The series examines some of Indias’s more successful development schemes which are transforming the lives of communities throughout the sub-continent. The programmes focus on the individual lives of men,...

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  8. Axing of the Himalayas, The (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The forests on the hill slopes of the Himalayas are disappearing and it is no longer possible for the hill people to find enough firewood or fodder for their animals. Discusses the conflict between...

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  9. Birth Reborn (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    In the maternity unit of a state hospital in the small French town of Pithiviers, Dr Michael Odent has evolved a philosophy of childbirth which challenges medical orthodoxy. Dr Odent believes that women...

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  10. Imagined Worlds. Part 1: Serpent in the Garden of Eden (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    A series in which each programme is a personal account by an eminent scientist of recent changes in scientific thought. Professor Walter Herbert of Harvard University has been engaged for 20 years in...

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