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  1. Romantics and Realists (1870-C1920) (1984 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) 1997 sale: £89.95 (+VAT +p&p) series of 16 programmes

    Readings from Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, E A Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. Ashcroft and Glover read from Hardy: ‘The Ruined Maid’, ‘In Church’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘I Looked into my...

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  2. Six Centuries of Verse: The Complete Series (1984 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 400 minutes), £19.99

    Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...

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  3. Schindler (1983 Video)

    Director
    John Blair
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 79 min., 1999 sale: £14.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Oskar Schindler was a Czech-German industrialist and a German spy. He was also the only German to save thousands of Jews from Hitler’s extermination camps during World War 2. This documentary of his life...

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  4. Someone to Talk to. Part 2: Women (1983 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Mervyn
    Subject
    Media studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Betamax, VHS. col. 26 min.

    Looks at the conflicting demands placed on women in society and at the sexual stereotypes used in the media. Dr Judy Greenwood, a community psychiatrist, and a group of counsellors discuss the issues raised.

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  5. Evolution of Darwin, The (6 Parts) (1982 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (BUFVC), Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 30 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    A series of lectures recorded at the Linnean Society in London to mark the centenary of Charles Darwin’s death.

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  6. Troubles, The (5 Parts) (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Broad; Ian Stuttard
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire (BFI) Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 54, 72, 80, 68, 60 min.

    1: An account of the British conquest of Ireland and the sense of grievance and resentment it created. 2: Examines how Ireland came to be partitioned in 1921. 3: Traces the history of the Northern Ireland...

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  7. Warming Warning (1981 Video)

    Producer
    Richard Broad
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    The carbon dioxide content of the earth’s atmosphere acts like the glass in a greenhouse. Burned at the present rate, the resulting emission of carbon dioxide will have warmed the earth’s atmosphere by...

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  8. China: Acrobats (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 48 min.

    Before 1949 and Liberation, acrobats in China were likened to tramps, thieves and vagabonds. After the Revolution, new attitudes to all forms of art were adopted and acrobats were re-established amongst the...

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  9. China: Ballet (1980 Video)

    Director
    Charles Nairn
    Producer
    Charles Nairn
    Subject
    Dance; Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    The Peking ballet was turned into a ‘model’ company by Chiang Ching during the time of Mao Tse-Tung’s leadership. This film describes what became of the company during that time. It gives a sense of...

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  10. Creggan (1980 Video)

    Director
    Michael Whyte
    Producer
    Mary Holland
    Subject
    History; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    The people who live on the Creggan estate in Londonderry describe life before and after the British troops arrived in August 1969, and the effects of the arrival on the families and life on the estate.

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