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  1. Out of Asia (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Hale
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    Late in 1996 archaeologists in the remote north-west Australia’s Northern Territory claimed to have found the oldest art in the world and evidence for the arrival of people in Australia three times earlier...

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  2. Overkill (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Philip Martin
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1963 human remains were found in a Cheshire peat bog, renewing interest in the archaelolgical investigation of Iron Age bog bodies. Archaeologists used modern forensic scienctific techniques to establish...

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  3. Psychedelic Science (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Bill Eagles
    Subject
    Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1969 research trials involving psychedelic drugs were banned following the Charles Manson killings, curtailing work in psychiatry relating alcohol and drug addiction treatment, schizophrenia and human...

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  4. Siamese Twins (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Jon Palfreman
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the surgical attempt to separate the young Siamese twins Dao and Duan, who are 3-year-old Thai orphans. They share a pelvis and a third leg, their spines and lower colons are fused and each twin has...

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  5. Silent Children, New Language (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Judith Bunting
    Subject
    Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Report on a sign language invented by children in Nicaragua who were unable to hear, talk or lip-read. American linguist Judy Kegl finds proof that the rules for language are built into our brains.

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  6. Smallpox on Death Row (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Although officially eradicated as a disease, the last samples of the smallpox virus, now held in the two top security laboratories in the USA and Siberia, are to be destroyed. But a debate has erupted over...

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  7. Virus That Cures, The (1997 Video)

    Producer
    Judith Bunting
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at a virus derived from sewage that can kill bacteria - a bacteriophage, and the possibilities for using it against antibiotic-resistant disease-causing bacteria. Since the 1930s scientists in Tbilisi...

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  8. Aliens from Mars (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Danielle Peck; Max Whitby
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Fossils in a small meteoric rock discovered in the Antarctic have been cited as evidence that life once existed on Mars. Follows the detective story of rock ALH8401 and speaks to NASA scientists and their...

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  9. Bse (2 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Bettina Lerner
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    2: In the 1980s people in Britain ate BSE-infected food, and the first victims of a new form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human parallel to BSE, may have already died. Asks how BSE is transmitted, what...

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  10. Butchers of Boxgrove, The (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Chris Hale
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1993 a fossil was unearthed from a Sussex gravel pit which turned out to be the shin of a half million-year-old human: ‘Boxgrove Man’. Archaeologists returned to the site in summer 1995 to investigate...

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