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1980: The Mini Metro - Is British Leyland on to a Winner? | Nationwide

youtube.com1980: The Mini Metro - Is British Leyland on to a Winner? | Nationwide"This must be the most important new car we've had for many, many years. Many years. Without it, we're going to be in trouble."

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1989: Neil Diamond reveals who Sweet Caroline is

youtube.com1989: Neil Diamond reveals who Sweet Caroline isWhilst Neil Diamond spoke about being a naturally shy person, despite performing to huge audiences, he explained the origins behind his sing-along anthem 'Sweet Caroline'.

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1995: Making a Bass Guitar | Techno: Making It

youtube.com1995: Making a Bass Guitar | Techno: Making It"I believe you can probably make an interesting-sounding instrument out of everything."

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1968: The Super Cities of Tomorrow | Towards Tomorrow

youtube.com1968: The Super Cities of Tomorrow | Towards Tomorrow*This programme contains references to suicide and reflects the time it was made.*

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1982: The Wonders of Computers | Pebble Mill: Computer Special

youtube.com1982: The Wonders of Computers | Pebble Mill: Computer SpecialPebble Mill dedicates an entire edition to exploring how computers are changing our day to day lives.

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1984: The Countryside is Rubbish | One Pair of Eyes: Laurie Taylor

youtube.com1984: The Countryside is Rubbish | One Pair of Eyes: Laurie TaylorLaurie Taylor - Country Blues.

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1990: Building Dioramas and Models | Techno

youtube.com1990: Building Dioramas and Models | TechnoKate Bellingham and Mat Irvine look at the world of dioramas and models, from the detailed vehicles and otherworldly sets of science fiction shows like Red Dwarf, to scenes depicting everyday life, like model train sets.

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1972: The History of the Cornish Pasty | Nationwide

youtube.com1972: The History of the Cornish Pasty | Nationwide"Here in Cornwall they still have a whole range of different traditional pasty fillings... you name it, and a Cornishman will put it in a pasty and make a song and dance about it."

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1984: Working in Telecommunications | Job Bank

youtube.com1984: Working in Telecommunications | Job BankJob Bank is a schools and colleges programme which looks at the different careers available for young people.

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1971: Billy the Beacon on how to cross the road

youtube.com1971: Billy the Beacon on how to cross the roadHow do you teach children about the dangers of traffic? With a mildly terrifying talking Belisha beacon of course. Billy the Beacon was at a school in Hemel Hempstead giving out road safety advice. It’s a wonder he didn’t end up in Doctor Who…

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1979: A Kitchen Fit For Magnus Pyke | Design by Five

youtube.com1979: A Kitchen Fit For Magnus Pyke | Design by Five"Our desires in the 80s - in the 1980s - are going to be remarkably similar to our desires in the 1880s." - Dr Magnus Pyke.

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1958: Winfred Atwell’s piano got lost in the BBC!

youtube.com1958: Winfred Atwell’s piano got lost in the BBC!When Winnifred Atwell performed live on children’s show Crackerjack, she brought her own much-loved and battle-scared piano with her. This now iconic instrument went walkabouts in the corridors of the Beeb and was only in place 15 minutes before the

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1986: Why the West Indies are Unbeatable | Calypso Cricket

youtube.com1986: Why the West Indies are Unbeatable | Calypso Cricket*This programme contains language and attitudes of its time.*

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1974: Help Yourself to a House | Tuesday Documentary

youtube.com1974: Help Yourself to a House | Tuesday Documentary"We would never have got ourselves a house if we hadn't built our own, I just wish I had been 20 years younger that's all!"

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1969: Leaving School at 15 in Yorkshire | Girls Leaving School

youtube.com1969: Leaving School at 15 in Yorkshire | Girls Leaving School"Nobody's ever asked me what I thought - I've always been told to think this."

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1990: Does Anybody Understand the Rules to Rugby Union? | On The Line

youtube.com1990: Does Anybody Understand the Rules to Rugby Union? | On The Line"On occasions the referee has got no idea whatsoever, but he blows his whistle."

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1966: How to Throw a House Party | A Whole Scene Going

youtube.com1966: How to Throw a House Party | A Whole Scene Going"We're going to devote this programme to dates and parties and pretty girls."

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1979: Pooh Sticks played by the real-life Christopher Robin

youtube.com1979: Pooh Sticks played by the real-life Christopher RobinWith Winnie-the-Pooh now 100 years old, we take a look at the bridge that was the inspiration for the game ‘pooh sticks’. When it was rebuilt as a memorial to author A.A. Milne, his son Christopher Robin Milne spoke to BBC News about what the residen

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1975: The Life of a Beach Comber | Nationwide

youtube.com1975: The Life of a Beach Comber | Nationwide"In a good day, Tony can find around 200 coins - many of them being 10 and 50 pence pieces."

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1958: On the Never-Never: Buying on Hire Purchase | Eye to Eye

youtube.com1958: On the Never-Never: Buying on Hire Purchase | Eye to EyeSix million people buy something or other on hire purchase every year. How does H.P. work? What are the snags? How does the shopkeeper check up on his customers, and what happens if they don't keep up the payments? This programme looks at the instalm

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1979: Poly Styrene – Punk Pioneer

youtube.com1979: Poly Styrene – Punk PioneerMarianne Joan Elliott-Said better known as punk singer Poly Styrene, was profiled in a 1979 episode of Arena, televised when she was just 21 years old. The frontwoman of new-wave band X-Ray Spex talked about her ‘disposable’ identity as a pop star.

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1975: Chess Final - Speelman vs Hartston | The Master Game

youtube.com1975: Chess Final - Speelman vs Hartston | The Master Game"It is naive to think that it is expedient - let alone possible - for a player striving for the top place in a tournament to play every game all out, putting all his creative effort into every encounter." - Former World Champion and draw expert Tigra

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1982: King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose is recovered

youtube.com1982: King Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose is recoveredKing Henry VIII’s warship The Mary Rose which sank in 1545, was raised from the Solent after lying there for 437 years. Following a heart-stopping moment when part of the recovery frame snapped, the ship was raised to a salute of cannon fire.

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1975: Time to Scrap British Rail? | The Money Programme: Beware of Trains

youtube.com1975: Time to Scrap British Rail? | The Money Programme: Beware of TrainsBritain's railways are bust and bankrupt as never before. For more than 20 years they have been fighting a losing battle with the roads for passengers and freight. Now British Rail must ask the Government for more than £340 million to guarantee survi

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1979: How to Make a Shelving System | Make Your Own Furniture

youtube.com1979: How to Make a Shelving System | Make Your Own Furniture"Once you've made something from our series, and compared it with the shop prices you'd have to pay, I think you'll be delighted."

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1968: Finding a date before the world of apps

youtube.com1968: Finding a date before the world of appsThree men explain why they spend $100 a day in pursuit of women. They were regulars at the Concord Hotel in New York State, a venue renowned for one speciality - dating.

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1981: Growing Up in a Favela | Scene: Girl in Brazil

youtube.com1981: Growing Up in a Favela | Scene: Girl in BrazilSchools programme Scene travels to Belo Horizonte in Brazil, to meet 16 year-old Vera, who lives with her parents and her six brothers and sisters in a favela.

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1993: Is the BBC Failing Sci-Fi Fans? | Biteback

youtube.com1993: Is the BBC Failing Sci-Fi Fans? | Biteback"The BBC need to put on science fiction for us. Now."

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1965: The Best Tape Recorders on the Market | Choice

youtube.com1965: The Best Tape Recorders on the Market | Choice"Tape recorders, not the very cheap teenage pop music type, nor the very expensive ones - the hi-fi addict's dream of bliss - but the middle ones, costing between 25 and 45 pounds."

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1987: The footballer with a 3,000-mile round trip to games

youtube.com1987: The footballer with a 3,000-mile round trip to games“During a season I do about 100,000 miles a year…”

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1977: Does Your Kitchen Hate You? | General Studies

youtube.com1977: Does Your Kitchen Hate You? | General Studies"A perfectly pleasant-looking place can be an ergonomist's nightmare. Ergonomists? They're the people who take a scientific interest in the problems of people at work."

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1967: The Big Dig | Man Alive

youtube.com1967: The Big Dig | Man AliveTwo hundred people - women of seventy, boys of seventeen - spread over two measured acres of sandy beach and digging like mad through a hot summer's day. From time to time they had to be forced to rest, because their muscles, old and young, were driv

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1976: British Rail introduces high speed trains

youtube.com1976: British Rail introduces high speed trainsBritish Rail launched its new ‘HST’ high-speed train service – the fastest diesel trains in the world. Reporter Lucy Mathen jumped on board for a preview, enjoying a cuppa on the way, and arriving four minutes early into Cardiff.

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1980: Residents Return to St Kilda After 50 Years

youtube.com1980: Residents Return to St Kilda After 50 YearsOn 28 August this year, a very special 50th anniversary celebration took place in a tiny, remote island group 110 miles off the west coast of Scotland. The last of the St Kildans returned to the island of their birth, some for the first time since it

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1973: What Makes a Good Toy? | Parents and Children

youtube.com1973: What Makes a Good Toy? | Parents and ChildrenBritish parents spend £200 million a year on toys. How much do their children get out of it? What are the best toys for children at various points in their development? Judith Davis investigates.

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1996: Can a Computer Produce Art? | It'll Never Work

youtube.com1996: Can a Computer Produce Art? | It'll Never WorkThe science programme for children reports on AARON, an artificial intelligence program which can create paintings.

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1996: Pete Postlethwaite on leading the band in Brassed Off

youtube.com1996: Pete Postlethwaite on leading the band in Brassed OffPete Postlethwaite, star of the film Brassed Off explained how he prepared for playing the role of a colliery band leader, when in real life he couldn’t read music. The film which told the story of the fictional Grimley Colliery Band, used musicians

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1996: Dame Esther Rantzen on extraordinary TV moment

youtube.com1996: Dame Esther Rantzen on extraordinary TV momentDame Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, campaigner and charity founder, has died aged 86.

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1966: The Last of the Tay Ferries | A Quick Look Around

youtube.com1966: The Last of the Tay Ferries | A Quick Look Around"A lot of friends will be sad to see the end of these trips on the Fifies."

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2000: Windows, Linux, Oracle and the Internet | The Money Programme

youtube.com2000: Windows, Linux, Oracle and the Internet | The Money Programme"The most serious threat to Windows may not be from the regulators, but from real competition."

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1969: Leaving School at 18 | Girls Leaving School

youtube.com1969: Leaving School at 18 | Girls Leaving SchoolWhen she was eighteen, Jocelyn Secchi wanted to be an actress. Her father is a solicitor, her mother runs a hairdressing business, and they live in a cottage near Lymington in the New Forest. Jocelyn was educated at a convent, a boarding school, and

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1981: Bridge Comes to Television | Grand Slam

youtube.com1981: Bridge Comes to Television | Grand Slam"Bridge has a reputation for being an extremely difficult game, but in fact it's not - it's mostly a rather simple game, much muddied by mystique."

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1979: The New Sound of Music With Michael Rodd

youtube.com1979: The New Sound of Music With Michael RoddOnly a century ago, many of the sounds we now take for granted as music could not even have been imagined - let alone played. Today, synthesisers, computers and multitrack recording techniques give the composer amazing scope and freedom.

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1961: The London Fire Brigade | News Extra

youtube.com1961: The London Fire Brigade | News ExtraOne day last week, some 6,000 firefighters from all over the country converged on the Houses of Parliament, demanding an enquiry into the Fire Service.

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1979: How Play School got its name

youtube.com1979: How Play School got its name🪟 Which window will it be?

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1988: Wheelie Bin Woes in Teignmouth | That's Life!

youtube.com1988: Wheelie Bin Woes in Teignmouth | That's Life!That's Life! reports from Teignmouth in Devon, where the council's new bin collection policy has drawn the ire of local residents.

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1993: Lenny Henry on the Birmingham Balti

youtube.com1993: Lenny Henry on the Birmingham BaltiDudley born Lenny Henry, star of the sit-com Chef! gave professional chef John Burton-Race a crash course on how to make, and eat, a west midlands speciality - the Balti.

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1981: Nothing to do Nowhere to go in Nottingham | Grapevine

youtube.com1981: Nothing to do Nowhere to go in Nottingham | GrapevineGrapevine follows a group of teenagers in Nottingham who - in a bid to stave off boredom, stay out of trouble and give young people in the area something to do and somewhere to go - have started campaigning for their own youth centre on the Ainsley E

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22 Sept

1964: How Good is Your TV Set? | Choice

youtube.com1964: How Good is Your TV Set? | ChoiceThe launch of BBC Two in April means that many British viewers now have a choice of three television channels, making a television set a more desirable purchase than ever before, but also a more complicated one. If you are thinking of buying a televi

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1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus

youtube.com1981: Michael J. Murphy – The Folklore Collector | Ulster in Focus"All this land of South Armagh is a countryside of mystery and magic and wonder."