Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City
Home » archives In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain[…]
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1960: The Changing Face of Youth Clubs | Panorama
Home » archives Ludovic Kennedy reports on youth clubs in the Elephant and Castle area of South London. He compares[…]
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1971: Syd Scroggie – Blind Mountaineer Poet | Nationwide | BBC Archive
Home » archives “Well perhaps I am out of my mind a little bit – of course most people who[…]
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1977: The Sky Above… The Earth Below
Home » archives David Jason narrates this information-packed documentary looking at the people who make air travel possible, from the[…]
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1969: Stalin’s Daughter on Defecting From the Soviet Union
Home » archives This programme contains discussion of suicide. Robin Day talks to Svetlana Allileyua, the daughter of the former[…]
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1962: Starting a Job as a Secretary | Going to Work | World of Work | BBC Archive
Home » archives BBC film for Schools, introduced by Peter West. More than 87,000 girls go into some kind of[…]
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1979: Will Computers Revolutionise Education? | Tonight | Predicting the Future
Home » archives Tonight’s James Bellini reports on some of the ways children are being educated to live in the[…]
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New innovations in credit cards, 1985
Home » archives Credit card companies debut anti-fraud features like magnetic strips and invisible chips. Aired Nov. 6, 1985 on[…]
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Victorian Britain in Colour | Rare 1890s Footage Restored
Home » archives Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new[…]
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The Futurists (1967) | Scientists Predict The 21st Century
Home » archives How close were they? What did they miss? Discusses the physical, social, and economic forces which have[…]
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