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49 results found for '"Science"' in Keywords.
NewsRevue (1984)
- Genre
- Special
NewsRevue - an episode of the topical satirical comedy song and sketch show. Individuals sent up include discredited forensic scientist Dr Alan Clift; UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Foreign Secretary...
Decision makers (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary
Decision Makers, presented by Tim Crook. Dr Alan Clift was a leading forensic scientist who was discredited in court, leading to all the trials in which he had given evidence being reviewed. This has led to...
Scotland Yard forensics exhibition (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report and interviews with members of Scotland Yard’s Forensic Science Department as an exhibition opens to the public. Speaking are ballistics expert David Prior; forgery expert Peter Nicholson; and an...
Royal Greenwich Observatory threatened with closure (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the news that the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Sussex will have to close and/or relocate as a result of financial cutbacks. Includes Head of the Observatory’s Time Department, Dr John...
Michael Rogan on Ronald Reagan’s acting habit (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Michael Rogan has presented a paper entitled, Ronald Reagan: The Movie to the American Political Science Association. Rogan claims that Reagan confuses movies with real life. He says that when the President...
First International police exhibition and conference (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the first International Police Exhibition and Conference at the Barbican in London where UK Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, announces new fingerprinting methods and claims new laws/confiscating...
Kenneth Baker on maths and science in British schools (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Murphy interviews Education Secretary, Kenneth Baker about two reports by Duncan Graham and Professor Thompson regarding the performance of British schoolchildren in maths and science subjects compared...
Science and education budget rise (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
After Nigel Lawson’s statement on the budget, Science and Education Secretary Kenneth Baker has won an overall increase in real terms of 4 percent. John Alcock interviews Baker who says a large part of...
The night is young (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Gill Pyrah talks on The Night is Young to the most famous astronomer in Britain, Patrick Moore. He’s written countless books on the subject and has had a long running television series, called The Sky At...
The War of the Worlds (1989)
- Genre
- Drama
Brief excerpt from the H. G. Wells story (1898), The War of the Worlds. Part of narrator read by Orson Welles. From the 1938 radio production directed by Welles?