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  1. Homes for All

    Date released
    Sep 1946
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    1
    NoS ID
    346924
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: BRITAIN’S HOUSING PROBLEMS, AND THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT’S HOUSING PROGRAMME explained. Stresses the present plight of Britain’s homeless, traces the causes, and points the way to solution....

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  2. Scotland Yard

    Date released
    Oct 1946
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    2
    NoS ID
    346930
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: The workings of London’s police headquarters, Scotland Yard, are explained through the example of a murder case.

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  3. Tomorrow by Air

    Date released
    18 Nov 1946
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    3
    NoS ID
    346940
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: The history of British aviation, from the pioneers of flight to the jet- research Lancastrian; current developments and modern civil aircraft types, culminating in the State-owned airways,...

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  4. Fabrics of the Future

    Date released
    7 Jan 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    4
    NoS ID
    346946
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: A history of the British woollen industry from the Middle Ages onwards. Modern problems are characterised as competition, labour shortages and factory conditions. Demand from the Commonwealth...

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  5. Thoroughbreds for the World

    Date released
    Feb 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    346956
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: Begins with Lord Derby at home with his horses, trainer and stud groom, then on to famous race horses, from the Godolphin Barb to Airborne, and from foalhood to maturity. The emphasis is on...

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  6. Palestine

    Date released
    Mar 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    6
    NoS ID
    346958
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: The political problems of modern Palestine illustrated. Focuses on the conflict of Jews and Arabs which the British encounter in the administration of the territory under League of Nations...

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  7. Coal Crisis

    Date released
    Apr 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    7
    NoS ID
    346964
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: Opening industrial shots whilst the commentary emphasises how much industry depends on coal. Other uses of coal are given including its use as an export. Shots of coal being loaded onto a cargo...

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  8. Sudan Dispute

    Date released
    Apr 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    8
    NoS ID
    346970
    Story no
    1 / 1

    NoS synopsis: An illustration of the facts of the problem facing Britain and Egypt in their joint adminstration of the Sudan in deciding whether it should now become an independent nation.

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  9. Development Areas

    Date released
    May 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    9
    NoS ID
    346976
    Story no
    1 / 1

    BFI synopsis: A survey of the depressed areas of the 1930s, concentrating on those in the N.E. of England. Rl.1 Industrial South Wales, N.E. England - the river Tyne, Durham and S.W. Scotland - the Clyde,...

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  10. The Rape of the Earth

    Date released
    28 Jun 1947
    Series name
    This Modern Age
    Issue no
    10
    NoS ID
    346982
    Story no
    1 / 2

    Enticknap synopsis: Soil erosion which threatens the food supplies of the increasing world population, and the work being done, both to preserve fertile land and to repair damage in already eroded areas.

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