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  1. 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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  2. Masters of the Ionosphere (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tim Haines
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Documents the bizarre history of scientific attempts to understand the atmospheric layer called the ionosphere and the American military’s plan to master this volatile region with a $58m machine in Alaska...

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  3. Hunt for the Doomsday Asteroid (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Tim Haines
    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses the thousands of asteroids orbiting the sun that are on a potential collision course ith earth. A warning of a possible disaster was given when a huge comet the size of Australia smashed into...

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  4. Curse of the Killer Bug (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Linda McDougall
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at an outbreak of streptococcus A that began in Stroud, Gloucestershire, in May of 1994, described as flesh-eating bacteria. Examines how the superbug scare happened, how hospital staff handled it and...

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  5. Vital Poison, A (1993 Video)

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

    How researchers discovered that a lethal gas, nitric oxide, was behind some of the most basic functions of the human body. It is manufactured in cells and involved in functions from blood pressure control to...

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