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Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...out under my vision were so extraordinary, I just got carried away by this and I started to get very interested in the smaller forms of life, in insects and small marine creatures. I then, at school, got very interested in zoology, became hooked on zoology and that’s what I really wanted to do. My parents wanted me to be a doctor but I wasn’t interested, I wanted to...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...out noise and to alter the signals so that they can be communicated. Communications looks at how the communication subsystems work, showing how the electronic signals are converted to radio waves for transmission and reception. Are there any other possible sub-systems? Yes, there are many, but the one other major area of electronics is control. In the scenario above,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...out with children...Attachment in the early years: 1 Introduction to attachment - The following audio is an interview between Professor Elizabeth Meins, from the University of York psychology department and John Oates of The Open University. Professor Meins’s research focuses on caregiver ‘mind-mindedness’ and its role in predicting children’s development and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...out of 10, we work on our own. We work through the night, which means that we have to prioritise work. We have to do assessments and investigations. And so there's a lot of responsibility and accountability, really, because obviously, we have to stand by those decisions that we make at that time. NARRATOR: After a handover from the colleague she's relieving, Sam's work...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...out of 600). Programme B has a one-third probability of saving 600 lives and a two-thirds probability of saving no one. Version 2 Programme A will result in 400 deaths (out of 600). Programme B has a one-third probability of no one dying and a two-thirds probability of 600 deaths. You will find the answers to this activity below. Once you have checked the answers make a...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...out novel experiences. The participants describe how exploring individual limits can be fun, such as when you get to the point where you think you have nothing left to give but find something inside yourself to keep going. Two participants suggest that they started to run long distances as a response to difficult times in their lives, either so they can work things out...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Alastair Fothergill - Earth in Vision

...out there and I think we have a job to report them and show people them, people that can’t go there in this increasingly urbanised world. Over 90% of the human population lives in cities, most people will never see the things that we’re bringing to them with blue chip natural history, so I make no apologies for doing that. Blue-chip, Attenborough and green issues We...
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Video 15 mins
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...out where in the Atlantic the German battleship Bismarck was located and, more to the point, where it was going to go next. Earlier messages, sent out by the battleship and deciphered at Bletchley, had revealed its mission: to attack British convoys in the Atlantic. I’m now going to head inside to meet Michael Kushner, one of the volunteer guides here at Bletchley....
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Article 5 mins