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  1. Culture Clash. Part 2: The Power Houses (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    A sobering study of the arts-science divide in post-war English secondary and higher education, and of the frustrations and disappointments experienced by many scientists in Whitehall during the 1960s and...

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  2. Culture Clash. Part 3: Experiments with the Truth (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 50 min.

    Historians and sociologists of science gleefully dissect many of the myths and legends of scientific discovery, and look at science as a fertile source of many of the images, myths and ideologies which...

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  3. EncyclopÉdie, The (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Art; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The ‘Encyclopédie’ is probably one of the greatest single enterprises of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Edited by Diderot and d’Alembert, it was published in France between 1751 and 1772. Giles...

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  4. Late Show, The 1 (14 January 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 45 min.

    Sarah Dunant chairs a round table discussion about science’s claims to unique cognitive status and its place in contemporary society and culture. With Professor Lewis Wolpert, Dr Jonathan Miller, Dr Robert...

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  5. Late Show, The (1 December 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The third of four programmes for Science Week. The regular review of cultural highlights of the month, with a scientific theme.

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  6. Late Show, The 2 (29 November 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The first of four programmes for Science Week looks at space exploration.

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  7. Late Show, The (2 December 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The fourth, concluding, programme for Science Week on the theme of how science is affecting the way we understand our culture.

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  8. Late Show, The (30 November 1993) (1993 Television)

    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Television broadcast. col. 40 min.

    The second of four programmes for Science Week. Philosopher Ray Monk asks how brain research is affecting our ideas about who we are and scientist Richard Dawkins traces the rise of the cultural virus; and...

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  9. Nature Display’d (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Alison Tucker
    Subject
    History; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Studies the complex associations made in the 18th century between the concepts of Woman and Nature, and how these were depicted in art and in sciences. Looks at women in relation to botany, health, charity...

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  10. Breakthrough or Ballyhoo? (1992 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min.

    Are newspaper headlines and their stories to be believed? Recent examples include ‘British breakthrough likely to end asthma suffering’, ‘Vitamin K linked to child cancer’, and ‘Astronomers find...

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