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  1. Nuclear Power Plant Safety: What’s the Problem? (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Engineering; Health & safety
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    A Royal Institution Discourse in which John Collier of Nuclear Electric discusses safety measures in the nuclear electricity industry. He uses models that simulate reactor behaviour to illustrate how safety...

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  2. Origin of Life, The (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    A Royal Institution Discourse by Professor John Maynard Smith about heredity and DNA, the essential features of life. Heredity is the property that like begets like, DNA stores and transmits genetic...

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  3. Constructing Total Quality (1995)

    Subject
    Civil Engineering & Building
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 20 minutes), £5.00 (subscribers only)

    A series of construction site interviews illustrate both clients’ and the construction industry’s positive response to the application of total quality management. The programme demonstrates that the...

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  4. Dambusters (1994 Video)

    aka: Dambusters’ Raid, The

    Director
    Alex Beetham
    Producer
    Chris Haws
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Uses archive footage and interviews with bomber crews to examining the attacks using the bouncing bomb invented by Sir Barnes Wallis on the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. Suggests that details of the bomb fell...

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  5. Dismantling the Bomb (1994 Video)

    Director
    Richard Melman
    Producer
    Richard Melman
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA

    Examines the process involved in dismantling bombs. It is easy to dismantle bomb cases, but the plutonium pits cannot be simply destroyed. Shows PANTEX in Texas where bombs are dismantled and plutonium pits...

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  6. Journey to the Centres of the Brain (5 Parts) (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Melman; William Woollard
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 5 x 60 min., 1995 sale: £55.00 (inclusive) series

    The 165th Royal Institution Christmas Lectures series, in which Dr Susan Greenfield examines the workings of the brain. 1: How what we do, think, feel and experience is related to electrical signals...

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  7. Bridging the Future (1993 Video)

    Director
    Chris Haws
    Producer
    Chris Haws
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An analysis of the triumphs and disasters of civil engineering in relation to bridge building. Those involved in their construction have to struggle to balance the requirements of safety with the desire to...

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  8. City Under Siege, A (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Melman; William Woollard
    Subject
    Business studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Filmed over six months, shows how the the people and the City of London reacted to the IRA bomb that exploded on 24 April 1993 and discusses the precautions to prevent further terrorist activity in the City.

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  9. Codebreakers, The (1993 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the work of World War 2 codebreakers, who worked behind the scenes and eventually managed to capture the enemy’s most secret signals. This programme covers the war in the Pacific and the winning...

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  10. Cold Spring, Morning Sun (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An insight into China during the years of revolution and reconstruction. Examines the work of the ‘quiet Americans’ Joan Hinton and Sid Engst, over a period of 40 years in China.

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