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Follows the complex circumstances under which the Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton, using models at the Museum of London and identical old iron castings from Oxford station, and drawings...
A drama-documentary set in the industrial landscape of power station and pit, framing the blackened beach of Lynemouth where, for generations, local people and travellers have made their living from...
Mixes traditional Glasgow songs with stills, archive and contemporary images and uses the river to tell the story of social issues facing the city and its communities in 1937, 1956 and 1985. Draws upon young...
Compilation of 15 films/extracts from 1912-1950 looking at family life - health care, school, housing, weddings.
The fourth programme in the series that started in 1964 with SEVEN UP, in which 14 seven-year olds were interviewed about their views and how they saw the future. Now they are 28 years old, and all but two...
Shot over two years, Edgar Reitz’s 11-part series HEIMAT, made for German television, is a semi-autobiographical drama telling the the saga of a German family, living in a small village, from the end of...
A major series of 12, 60-minute television programmes presenting a penetrating look at post-Mao China. The first programme, REMEMBERING, puts modern China in a historical perspective, and each of the...
Given that Newtonian science is usually identified with the culture of the Enlightenment of the 18th century, Dr Simon Schaffer considers the relationship between the way of life of the English élite and...
Discussion between Robert Rhodes James and Professor John Mackintosh. Considers how the dilemmas of 1964 developed - rising expectations with poor market performance; rigid social structure with belief in...
Discussion between Robert Rhodes James and Professor John Mackintosh. Decribes and provides factual support for the analysis presented in ASPECTS. Issues discussed include minority politics, nationalism,...
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