Strictly Bingo: A story of passion and ambition set in the bingo halls of Britain, as contestants vie for the accolade of National Bingo Caller of the Year, plus a holiday in Las Vegas.
Who will emerge victorious? Vivianne Howard's observational documentary follows three hopeful callers at different stages of the bingo calling game. There's Morecambe's highly-decorated living legend, Patrick Bowler - "the Des Lynham of bingo callers" - a twenty year veteran of the bingo business, who has come out of retirement for one more contest. There's Wigan's rookie wild card Bernard McGuinness, who wants to win the prize money so he can marry his fiancee in Las Vegas. Then there's Wood Green's finest, the all singing, all dancing Ricky Denton.
Clip taken from Modern Times: Strictly Bingo, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 8 December, 1999.
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"Now we've got your computer set up, it's time to get online and enter the weird and whacky world of the world wide web."
As part of the BBC's Computers Don't Bite campaign, The Learning Zone follows two families - the Lyons family and the Plummer family - who have just bought their first family computer. This edition focuses on how they can get their new machines "online" - connected to the internet, by installing software using the CD Rom drive, and connecting the computer to their telephone line.
Presenters Sue Davis and Dave Green have advice for anybody trying to connect a computer to the internet for the first time, and explain unusual terms like Internet Service Provider (or ISP), modem, browser programs, web pages and links.
Clip taken from The Learning Zone: Computers Don't Bite: Getting Started Online, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 18 May, 1998.
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Noted Swindonian and XTC frontman Andy Partridge takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his home town. He visits Brunel's Railway Village, the Western Region Mechanics' Institute, and the Museum of the Great Western Railway - where he stops to admire the famous steam locomotive, City of Truro. Next up, he visits the divisive Brunel Shopping Centre (It's far too tinny, it won't last five minutes) and the Avery Scale Shop - possibly the most obscure shop in Swindon. Finally, he pops in to the Oasis Family Leisure Centre, locally known as "the Pleasuredome."
Clip taken from R.P.M., originally broadcast on BBC West, 3 February, 1981.
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Robert Reid introduces a report by Godfrey Baseley on the current state of farming in Britain, including a look at the work of Farm Institutes. Is Britain making the most of its land? How much of our food is homegrown, and what improvements can be made to farms and farming practices to increase that number?
Two-thirds of the meat consumed in Britain is produced in Britain, four-fifths of eggs and green vegetables are homegrown, and Britain is effectively self-sufficient when it comes to potatoes and milk. On the other hand, only one third of the wheat we use to make our bread is British, and ninety percent of our butter and the majority of our cheese is imported.
What lies behind these figures? Godfrey speaks to farmers like Mr J.H.Vernon, Mr J.F.Gradon and Fred Humphreys about how they run their farms, and to Professor Sanders - the chief technical advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture - about whether Britain has enough farming land. Godfrey then visits the Shropshire Farm Institute, to see how the next generation of farmers and farm workers are being trained.
Clip taken from Special Enquiry: The Land, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 20 March, 1956.
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"What is the likelihood of both groups of pupils ending up in the same jobs, living in the same streets, and driving the same cars?"
As we approach the end of the 20th century, what defines a person's class in modern Britain? Is it money, or breeding?
To find out, Scene conducts a social experiment - inviting two pupils from a comprehensive school to swap places with two pupils from a public school. They will attend each other's classes, move in with each other's families, to get a sense of how how different or similar their experiences are. All four of these pupils see themselves as middle class. Despite seeing themselves as being in the same social class, 90% of the pupils attending the public school go on to third level education, compared with 20% from the comprehensive school.
After a week, how different will the pupils find each others schools, homes and social lives? Will they still think they are middle class at the end of the experiment?
Clip taken from Scene: Money, Breeding... or What? originally broadcast on BBC Two, 15 March, 1991.
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"A brand new home in a brand new town: Thamesmead, the place people have called 'the town of the 21st Century.' "
Michael Rodd narrates this schools programme, looking at life in the brand new community at Thamesmead. Thamesmead is a "new town" in South-East London, like Harlow and Cumbernauld before it, it features modernist housing and planning.
What is it like to actually live in Thamesmead? Scene follows the Foy family as they move in to their new home, speaks to residents who have lived there for a few years, and to the architect that designed it.
Clip taken from Scene: The More We Are Together, originally broadcast on BBC One, 10 December, 1972.
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Five million people in England go dancing ever week, Ron Hitchens is just one of them - a cockney barrow boy with a passion for dancing in its myriad forms.
In Ken Russell's beautiful short film, Ron leads us through the strange and varied world of the dancers of England; from jive to ballroom, folk dancing to flamenco, morris dancing to modern and even the mysterious, centuries-old, Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.
Director: Ken Russell
Film editor: Allan Tyrer
Associate producer: Nancy Thomas and Humphrey Burton
Editor: Huw Wheldon
Clip taken from Monitor: The Light Fantastic, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 28 December, 1960.
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Can you tell the difference between a tin of 'Stewed Steak with Gravy' and a tin of 'Stewed Steak with Gravy, Pie Filling'? Do you know how much water you buy with every frozen chicken or tin of ham? Could you tell the difference between a lump of vegetable protein and a lump of beefsteak? Exactly one hundred years ago, Disraeli introduced the first effective Food and Drugs Act to protect us from adulterated food. Now that Act has grown into a massive tome of rules and regulations and in this programme Christopher Brasher wends his way through the complexities of 1970s food, trying to find out what we are really eating.
Clip taken from What are you eating? Originally broadcast on 2 September 1975.
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"Mark will have some weary hills to climb, which I don't suppose he'll fancy much - and he'll have some nasty hills to go down, which I don't suppose I'll fancy much."
Fyfe Robertson undertakes a long expedition through the Highlands of Scotland aboard his trusty steed, Mark the horse. They are going to trace the old drove roads, once used to take cattle from Skye down to the trysts at Falkirk and Crieff, but in reverse, starting in the south and making their way north, as far as the Kyle Rhea strait. Their journey will take them right through the heart of the Western Highlands... and through history.
This collection of 19 clips follows Fyfe from his first horse-riding lesson to the end of his journey. They were originally broadcast on the Tonight programme over the course of eight weeks in 1964.
0:00:00 Robbie in training
0:01:29 Meeting Mark the horse in Norfolk
0:04:55 Rain delay
0:07:57 Highland grass - reclaiming the Grampian Mountains for farming
0:15:47 Changing times for the Grouse shooting industry
0:23:35 Fyfe and Mark get to know each other on the road to Aberfeldy in Perthshire
0:29:41 The road to Rannoch - a village called Dull, and the history of the Robertson clan
0:35:14 Perthshire - examining the oldest yew tree in Europe
0:40:56 Garth Castle in Glen Lyon
0:49:06 Catlodge - a cairn for the famous piper, Calum Macpherson
0:57:29 Going gets tough for the camera crew - Crossing the River Spey via the Laggan Bridge
1:04:01 Fort Augustus - a night in the Hydro-Electric Station's emergency hut
1:14:15 Dalchully Estate - Johnnie Cope and the Battle of Prestonpans
1:18:33 Invermoriston - new shoes for Mark courtesy of the MacDonald brothers blacksmiths
1:24:02 Fort Augustus abbey - the highland sport of shinty
1:30:53 Journey along the River Tay - Wade's Bridge and the history of highland road making
1:38:17 Glen Shiel - the modern day road makers
1:47:23 Eilean Donan Castle - Loch Duich, Loch Long and Loch Alsh
1:51:00 Kylerhea - Journey's end and goodbye to Mark
Clips taken from Tonight: Robbie's Rides, originally broadcast on BBC One, from 6 May - 18 June, 1964.
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