Descripción: Sir Patrick Moore discusses the impending doom of the Andromeda Galaxy crashing into our own Milky Way with Prof Derek Ward Thompson & Prof Carlos Frenk, whilst Dr Chris Lintott and Astronomer Nik Syzmanek observe Andromeda with a small telescope. There are two examples of cosmic scale which particularly interested me in this program, I've known for some time the large size that Andromeda appea...

Descripción: Adult Themes - Having edited down the top 90 of Channel 4's "100 Greatest Stand Ups" to it's bare bones it now resembles the classic ITV 70's show "The Comedians" Frank Carson Ed Byrne Bernard Righton (John Thompson) Bernard Manning Chris Addison http:// iwab.org/ArticlesEng.html Sean Hughes Jenny Eclair Bernard Manning Dylan Moran Jerry Sadowitz http://jerrysadowitz.com/pages/main.h...

Descripción: Clips from a BBC documentary explaining the arguments from the 1920's until now as to whether electrons are particles, waves or both. It outlines Einstein's distaste at Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and is a good starting point in realising that the universe is far, far stranger than can be imagined. Formerly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: Eddie talks about the Diana aftermath 1997

Descripción: 1966

Descripción: The 18th century astronomy community's reluctance to accept the accuracy of John Harrison's clocks is not one of the highs of scientific research. I've had to quite heavily edit the 18 or so minutes I have of this documentary shown in early 1999 (would like to credit it further but cannot at this point) in the 9:38 I have here, I concentrate on the astronomical alternatives, the Barbados trial ...

Descripción: c2000 (edited) Talking about his career up until Partridge with Melvyn Bragg, includes clips from Live shows and the Day Today includes interviews with John Thompson, Frank Skinner & Armando Iannucci.

Descripción: Brian Johnston (Johnners) Jun 24 1912 - Jan 5 1994), Cricket Lover, Commentator and Fun Guy. BBC Grandstand 1994 Formerly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: Gary Lineker signals to Bobby Robson that Gazza had 'lost the plot' W Germany 1(4)-1(3) England 4 July 1990, Stadio delle Alpi, Turin, Italy Clips from a BBC moment show "I Love 1990". c2000-03 (Does anybody know?) Formerly on sinfulish

Descripción: From lighter times when all we had to worry about was who was blowing the presidential trombone, as opposed to why in gods name is he playing with matches in the Middle Eastern tinderbox. From Rory Bremner - Beware Of Imitations, Channel Four c1999

Descripción: Edited clip from the BBC's "Mark Lawson Talks to Stephen Fry" Aug 2007 BBC4 STEPHEN FRY NIGHT (but need realplayer to play clips - thanks for making it easy guys) http:// bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/features/stephen-fry.shtml .

Descripción: Its happened before... Carl contemplates that the "submission to ethnic, religious or national identifications" and the rejection of scientific values will leave us tenuously on the brink of a 2nd (and possibly final) dark age. http:// carlsagan.com/ User Spiff embedded this clip on Videosift with the following description: - In this excerpt from the final episode of Sagan's 'Cosmos,' he ...

Descripción: Recorded 3 yrs after the notorious 1997 "Did you threaten to overrule him?" interview.

Descripción: Professor Aubrey Manning describes the role that Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace (one of the forgotten fathers of modern science) played in realising that species development was not only affected by natural selection but also geographical changes in the earths crust. Short clip from the opening of the BBC documentary series 'Earth Story' Formerly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: Clip from an Open University program about advertising. Animator Nick Park of Aardman Animations talks about the use of unscripted conversations by the general public for the classic Electricity Board 'Creature Comforts' spin-off adverts.

Descripción: Short film about his most famous work Guernica. So named to express his abhorrence about the German terror bombing bombing of the town on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War Set to the music of Rodrigo's Guitar Concerto De Aranjuez From a BBC end of century round up New Years Eve 1999 Formerly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: Sex, Drugs, Disappearing Guitarists and Rock'n'Roll. The most epic of all Rock Bands Stories. from BBC Rock Family Trees 1994 (edited) based on books by Pete Frame narrated by John Peel Formaly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: Ye cannae change the laws of physics, river sprits, human delusions of grandeur & of course teapots Clips from an BBC Open University program c1999. Heavily edited at the time, wish I had more to put these bits into context, but it's always fun to see Richard bashing religion around. Also has a nice little bit from Peter Atkins Formerly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: In a world where all books are burnt. Montag finally meets the Books. Clips from the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451. Based on a novel by Ray Bradbury. Formaly on thingsihaveseen

Descripción: (some audio distortion) - Jan 13th 1983 Formerly on thingsihaveseen