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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective, but I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Krishan Arora - Earth in Vision

...becoming harder to get those sorts of films away. That’s a very generalist perspective of how I think it is. Environmental programmes: How to get a commission I think it’s about finding the right way of telling them. I can think of a film made by a Bristol company that went out I think in the Natural World strand on BBC earlier this year, which I think was called...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...become Sir Humphry, inventor of the miners’ lamp, President of the Royal Society and domineering genius of British science – stripped to the waist, placed a thermometer under his armpit and stepped into a sealed box specially designed by the engineer James Watt for the inhalation of gases, into which he requested the physician Dr. Robert Kinglake to release twenty...
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Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America
OpenLearn Ireland

Adaptation and Assimilation: The Irish Catholic Experience in America

...becoming the 35th President of the United States. Kennedy’s ancestors came to America from County Wexford during the Famine. He took pride in his Irish heritage and received a rapturous welcome during his visit to Ireland in 1963, just five months before his assassination. [This photograph depicts President Kennedy’s motorcade in Patrick Street in Cork city on the...
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Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...become a global pandemic. Here's a guide to what you need to know about the disease...[A public health announcement about dengue and yellow fevers in Paraguay] A public health campaign about Yellow Fever and Dengue Fever in Paraguay What is yellow fever? The NHS explains the basics of the disease, including what to look for: Yellow fever is a serious viral infection that...
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When Heath met Nixon
History & The Arts

When Heath met Nixon

...become looser still. After a brief photo-opportunity in the drawing room of Government House, and a one-half hour informal luncheon in the Sitting Room, the President [Nixon] and the Prime Minister [Heath] began a three and one-half hour private discussion. The conversation opened on the subject of the reverse preferences granted by the UK and EC to developing countries....
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Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...become very large and unmanageable. The question would also need to specify what it means by ‘success’ and with which NATO ‘responses’ it is concerned, but these could be achieved through sub-questions and discussed in the introduction. 2. What is the role of soft power in international diplomacy? A comparative study of the United States and China. Discussion This...
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The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...becomes super enciphered and when Alan Turing took over at Hut 8 here for his team to break Naval Enigma, he was told by Frank Birch ‘Naval Enigma is impossible to break’ and Alan Turing said ‘I like impossible tasks’. Chris Williams So May 1941 when the Bismarck was loose in the Atlantic, were Bletchley reading Naval Enigma? Michael Kushner Yes they were reading...
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