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The law and social work in Scotland
Health, Sports & Psychology

The law and social work in Scotland

...families affected by social deprivation to those with judges, lawyers and other members of the legal system. The tracks analyse the role of the family in Scottish life in relation to the many voluntary bodies that exist to assist and inform them, and the legal obligations of social workers. Participants from single mothers to solicitors presented their perspectives in a...
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Audio 2 hrs 27 mins
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...family with a history of TB, went to Nordrach-sur-Mendip, the oddly named English sanatorium modelled on a German institution. The regime there was particularly strict: patients had to conform to a rigid timetable, take their own temperatures four times a day and eat a prescribed diet. Alice Clark found Nordrach-sur-Mendip a … cruel experience, for she was by now very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Star Trek and the Greeks
History & The Arts

Star Trek and the Greeks

...history...This content is associated with The Open University's History courses and qualifications. [Apollo] The Greek god, Apollo The original series of Star Trek (1966 to 1969) was particularly obvious in drawing upon human history, with the crew of the USS Enterprise encountering the planet where everything is like Prohibition-era Chicago (‘A Piece of the Action’,...
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Article 5 mins
Culture and Climate Change
Nature & Environment

Culture and Climate Change

...History: A History of Cultural Responses to Climate Change We hear plenty about the science and policy of climate change – but what about culture? Quentin Cooper discusses the history of cultural responses to the issue with Professor Diana Liverman, Wallace Heim, Siobhan Davies and Dr Nigel Clark. Publics: Culture, Democracy and Climate Change We hear plenty about the...
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Audio 2 hrs 47 mins
Hospital: Dementia patients
Health, Sports & Psychology

Hospital: Dementia patients

...families. The Hospital team follow staff at St Marys as they respond health care needs - which might not be best suited to time spent at A&E...Carl & Patricia 75-year-old Carl's dementia has dramatically worsened and his family take him to A&E after he becomes aggressive at home. Patricia, his wife of 25 years, looks after him without the help of carers, but is reaching...
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Video 5 mins
Children's University - Free online courses
Education & Development

Children's University - Free online courses

...history of the world. More courses about art, music and literature Animals and plants [Children Uni - Subject icons 2] From the banana to the blue whale, there are a staggering variety of animals and plants around us. Many live in some of the harshest conditions on the planet and have adapted perfectly to survive. Some travel hundreds of miles every year, others stay in...
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Article 5 mins
Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?
History & The Arts

Is the blue plaque scheme still relevant?

...history of the people who’ve shaped the culture. The scheme that Ewart started back in the 1860s is now run by English Heritage. Of the 990 plaques they’ve put up over the years, 85% of them commemorate men and only about 4% are for Black and Asian people. In an interview for our project, Tony Warner, the author, historian, and founder of Black History Walks, pointed...
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Article 5 mins
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...History Unit Radio. I also do a lot of other freelance work outside radio, outside the BBC. How I got started… Interested in the natural world, very definitely. I used to go for long walks in the Peak District with my dad and we always took a geology hammer and one day we broke open a piece of limestone and inside was a shellfish, just beautifully preserved, a whole...
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Video 20 mins