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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Chernobyl Sarcophagus (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Ten years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion in the Ukraine, survivors of the mission to enter the plant in 1991 explain how things have changed, but the optomistic mood of the workforce...

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  4. Death by Design (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Jean-Francois Brunet; Peter Friedman
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Uses microphotography to look at the world of the cell inside the human body, a world where each individual cell is programmed to die. The notion that cell death gives birth to life has major implications...

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  5. Einstein 1 (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Peter Jones; Tom Levenson
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 2 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    The life and work of Albert Einstein. Looks at the man behing the genius and his inspiration to accomplish so much. Draws on Einstein’s personal letters and newly released material. Andrew Sachs plays...

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  6. Fall out from Chernobyl (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Viv King
    Subject
    Medical sciences; Physics; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Since 1992 British scientists Keith Baverstock and Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams have been trying to convince the world that cases of thyroid cancer in children in Belarus have been caused by Chernobyl...

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  7. Fermat’s Last Theorem 1 (1996 Video)

    Director
    Simon Singh
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1963, schoolboy Andrew Wiles decided to solved the world’s most famous mathematical problem, Fermat’s last theorem, that had been baffling mathematicians for over 300 years. Thirty years later he saw...

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  8. Gene Race, The (1996 Video)

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

    Sean Conroy, a 21-year-old cystic fibrosis sufferer, volunteered to be a guinea pig for the first British trial of a new gene therapy to affect the incurable lung disease. Looks at research teams in London...

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  9. Ice Mummies (3 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tim Haines; Andrew Thompson
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    1 (producer Andrew Thompson): In Siberia in 1993 archaeologists found the body of a young woman whose flesh, clothes and possessions were preserved by the permafrost. From her frozen body are emerging clues...

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  10. Living Death (1996 Video)

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

    Looks at new techniques that can help to diagnose and treat brain injuries and bring patients who are labelled permanently unconscious - in a persistent vegitative state - back into consciousness. Case of...

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