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1978: Could You Start a New Life in the Country? | In Our Nature | BBC Archive

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1995: Channel Wars: Ferry Versus Train | Modern Times | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

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1986: Dancing Up a Storm at Blackpool | Forty Minutes: Dancing in the Rain | BBC Archive

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2002: Will 3G Mobiles Take Off? | Newsnight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1976: Nevermind the Bollards | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1962: The Last Railway Horses | Tonight | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1976: The Price of a Patent | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1967: When an OUTSIDE LOO just WON'T DO | In Your Place | Classic BBC Clips | BBC Archive

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1970: The Serious Business of Shopping | Tuesday Documentary: The Retail Game | BBC Archive

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1974: Is Tourism Destroying Cornwall? | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1986: Are You Ready For Satellite TV? | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1951: How Air Traffic Control Works | Newsreel | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

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1972: Living on the State Pension | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1982: Tron - How Was it Made? | Nationwide | Science Fiction | BBC Archive

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1973: The Time Machine Man | The Fanatics | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1970: The Office Christmas Party | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1985: The British Birdwatching Record Must Fall! | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1980: Emlyn Hughes on Bill Shankly | All About Books | Classic Sport Interviews | BBC Archive

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1979: Living With Damp | Grapevine | Scotland on Film | BBC Archive

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1960: London's Changing Youth Clubs | Panorama | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1971: Syd Scroggie - Blind Mountaineer Poet | Nationwide | BBC Archive

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1962: Starting a Job as a Secretary | Going to Work | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1977: The Sky Above... The Earth Below | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1959: Unemployment in Britain | The Unemployed | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive

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1969: Stalin's Daughter on Defecting From the Soviet Union | Classic Interviews | BBC Archive

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1975: The Woman Moving Her Entire House | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1973 A Passion for Pebble Polishing | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1962: A Connemara Ceilidh | Monitor | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive

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1979: Will Computers Revolutionise Education? | Tonight | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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1963: Fyfe Robertson's Hebridean Voyage | Tonight Special | BBC Archive

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1973: The Death of the Local Pub? | Man Alive | Voice of the People | BBC

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1969: Marty Feldman - What is Comedy? | One Pair of Eyes | Comedy Icons | BBC Archive

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1961: Frank O'Connor's Cork | Monitor | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC Archive

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1984: All Aboard the FASHION BUS! | Breakfast Time | Fashion | BBC Archive

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1972: The Fun of Stock Car Racing | The Fanatics: Mod Stock Mad | Niche Sports | BBC Archive

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1962: Britain's "Scrap Iron Armada" | Tonight | BBC Archive

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1955: The State of Britain's Schools | Special Enquiry | BBC Archive

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1987: On The Piste for a Ski Holiday | Niche Sports | Classic Documentary | BBC Archive

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1972: The Historic Building Investigator | Look Stranger | BBC Archive

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1958: Free Speech for Fascists? | Panorama | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1984: "The Glasgow Style" with Peter Capaldi | Spectrum | Fashion | BBC Archive

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1959: What Worries the People of Sheffield? | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1980: The Kids are up for the FA Cup! | Merry-Go-Round | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

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1969: The Vanishing Railway | Gone Tomorrow | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1984: What it Takes to be a Champion Dog | Champion Maker | Classic BBC documentary | BBC Archive

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1968: Whicker's World of Horror | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1973: Mr Moon's Missing Budgie Bureau | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

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1962: The People Who Live on Spurn Point | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1970: Mindset of a Marathon Man | Look Stranger | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1983: A Package Holiday to Benidorm | Forty Minutes | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1984: Making The Living Planet | Making of Documentary | BBC Archive

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1972: The Life of a Football Apprentice | Scene | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

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1983: Is the "Andy Capp" Man a Thing of the Past? | Scene | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

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1980: Meet the WINDOW CLEANERS of London | Nationwide | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1964: How to Make a Television Drama | Monitor | Making of... | BBC Archive

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1985: A Good Job With Prospects | Job Bank | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1966: A Roof Over Your Head - The Tenant | Man Alive | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive

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1979: Kirkintilloch's Men of Iron | A Diary of Britain | World of Work | BBC Archive

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1988: What is a Computer and how does it Work? | Electric Avenue | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

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