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  1. Seeds of Hope: The Village (1985 Video)

    Director
    Malcolm Hirst; Charles Stewart
    Producer
    Charles Stewart
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Filmed in Ethiopia over a three-year period from 1983 to 1986, the programme chronicles how environmental destruction and mismanaged aid pushed a village and its people to the edge of extinction. Focuses on...

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  2. Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

    Director
    André Singer
    Producer
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

    Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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  3. Taking the Lid off (1985 Video)

    Producer
    Nigel Evans
    Subject
    Mental Health and Counselling; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    Examines aspects of child abuse and the effects of such abuse on children and parents and their relationships. Filmed at the Gravesend Catholic Children’s Society Familymakers Unit where abused children...

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  4. Tenor Man’s Story, The: Sir Peter Pears (1985 Video)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 53 min.

    A film made to celebrate Peter Pear’s 75th birthdayin which the tenor talks about his life to Donald Mitchell. His works are illustrated by stills, film clips and excerpts from Britten’s works.

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  5. Reclaiming the City (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Birmingham has become a concrete city designed to cope with the motor car but ignoring its human components, resulting in a dangerous and unattractive environment. Planners and architects are concerned with...

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  6. Second Nature (1984 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Derelict land can be regard as either decaying poisoned wasteland or an uncultivated wildlife site. It co-exists with the steady erosion of greenfield sites. The Ackers Project in Birmingham and the West...

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  7. Stealing the Sun (1984 Video)

    Director
    Ashley Bruce
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min.

    Examines the low priority accorded to research into renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, water, and biomass. In the United States, funding goes to a few large projects rather than small-scale...

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  8. Flying into the Wind (1983 Video)

    Director
    Edward Bennett
    Producer
    Margaret Matheson
    Subject
    Drama; Education
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2011), £30

    A television play in which the parents of a brother and sister who do not attend school got to court to have them education at home. A just spends a day with the children to decide whether the parents’,...

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  9. Made in Britain (1983 Video)

    Director
    Alan Clarke
    Producer
    Margaret Matheson
    Subject
    Drama; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

    David Leland’s play about unemplyment and racism. A teenage skinhead is determined to reject other people before they reject him, and the play traces his increasing confrontation with the authorities...

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  10. Nicaragua: A Nation’s Right to Life (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Alan Lowery
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    John Pilger visits Nicaragua and investigates the society in post-revolutionary times, in the context of the feudal role of the Samoza family which preceded the Sandinista takeover.

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