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13 results found for '"Scientific expeditions"' in Keywords.
Columbia rainforest expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Captain John Saunders is interviewed about an expedition (beginning June 1977) rafting down the Rio Caqueta, a tributary of the Amazon, to conduct scientific projects in the border area of Columbia and...
Jack Temple on Columbia rainforest expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Jack Temple is interviewed about his forthcoming Columbia rainforest expedition and its archaeological, ecological and medical aims. The interviewer is Chris Hourmouzious.
Bernard Betts on Sierra Leone scorpion expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Bernard Betts talks about his planned expedition to search for scorpions in Sierra Leone, having gone on a reconnaissance mission searching the British Museum collection. His team plans to use UV lamps to...
Sussex University students on pilgrimage to Kashmir (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Sussex University anthropology students are interviewed about their plan to study pilgrimages by doing a real pilgrimage - in this case, the annual journey to the Amarnath cave in Kashmir to see the...
Glacier Retreat expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an unidentified member of Chelsea College about a planned hydro-biological expedition to look at life in areas left by retreating glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The speaker describes the...
Our kind of town (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; Jingle
Our Kind of Town, presented by Greg Strange. In this edition explorer Oliver Shepard is interviewed about his involvement, together with Charles Burton and leader Ranulph Fiennes, in the pending Transglobe...
American backed Titanic venture (1980)
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- Interview
Telephone interview with a Texas oilman (not identified - poss. Jack Grimm) on the venture to recover the wreck of the liner The Titanic from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Female intreviewer not identified.
Third Columbia space shuttle mission (1982)
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- News report; Interview; Press conference
Andrew Manderstam reports on the launch of the Columbia space shuttle on the longest NASA mission to date. Speaking are: launch director George Page; NASA spokesman Dick Young.
Falklands war - British researchers on South Georgia (1982)
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- Interview
Paul Maurice interviews Dr Ray Adie, of the British Antarctic Survey in South Georgia, on research being undertaken in the area during the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands.
Antarctic Survey team missing (1982)
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- News report; Interview
Report on the disappearance from Antarctic Survey station Faraday of three British scientists, Ambrose Morgan, John Coll, and Kevin Ockleton. Includes interview with John Bawden, British Antarctic Survey...