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  1. When the Lights Go on Again (2002)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Third programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT covering the period 1943-47. Tells the story of the British people preparing for war and living through the events of the ‘Phoney War’, Dunkirk, the...

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  2. Terrible Beauty, A: Ireland’s Struggles (2001)

    aka: Terrible Beauty, A: Two Films About the Irish Uprising

    Subject
    HISTORY & POLITICS CATALOGUES
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 146 min), £21.99 inc

    Two films by Kenneth Griffith on the Irish Uprising of 1916.

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  3. Century of Fairground Memories, A (2000)

    Producer
    Claire Allam
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 27 minutes), £15.00

    Tells the stories of show people’s lives and culture, and how it has changed over the last hundred years. Individual recollections are combined with contemporary and old film footage, photographs and...

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  4. Put That Light out! (2000 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 70 min., 2000 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    First programme in the series BRITAIN’S HOME FRONT, covering the period 1940-42. Eyewitness accounts by ordinary British citizens tell how they coped with everyday life against a backdrop of air raid...

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  5. Stranger’s Eye, A (2000 Audio)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 150 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    BBC correspondent Fergal Keane travels around Britain listening to the stories of ordinary people who find themselves on the fringes of society and surviving on limited means. He begins in Glasgow, among the...

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  6. Century Speaks, The (1999 Audio)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. 220 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (+p&p)

    In July 1998, producers at 40 local and regional BBC radio stations began interviewing 6,000 people from all backgrounds, ranging in age from 4 to 107. The aim was to capture the experience of the last...

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  7. Finest Hour (1999 Video)

    Director
    Nick Read
    Producer
    Phil Craig
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 2 x 100 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive)

    Ordinary British people recall the critical months starting in May 1940 when Britain faced the threat of Nazi Germany. In four parts: 1) up to the Dunkirk evacuation, showing Chruchill at work and Thora Hird...

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  8. Life in the Trenches (1999 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w./col. 55 min., 2001 sale: £2.99 (inclusive)

    Explains what it meant to live and fight on the Western Front, from the innocent patriotism of Kitchener’s Army to the war-weary anger of the war poets. Uses contemporary film footage and photographic...

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  9. Western Front, The (1999 Video)

    Director
    Steven Clarke; Keith Sheather
    Producer
    Mark Fielder
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col/b&w. 180 min., 2000 sale: £17.99 (inclusive)

    Series in which military historian Richard Holmes examines how World War 1 was fought in trenches, forts and bunkers, with the aim of highlighting the contrasts on the battlefields where ‘ancient ideas of...

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  10. Bygones: The Horsemen (1998)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £14.95

    A BYGONES special produced by Anglia Television in 1975, recalling the age before the tractor when farm work revolved around the horses. Oral historian George Ewart recognised that as this generation of...

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