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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Eddie talks about the Diana aftermath 1997

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: John Romer tells of how pagan imagery was adopted by the early Christian church, and how these ancient symbols and icons were used by the empire's leaders to position themselves conveniently between the people they ruled and their God For example an image of Jesus in Constantinople was copied from a statue of Zeus(Jupiter) which was one of the Seven Wonders of the World Edited Clips from "By...

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Descripción: Bronowski argues that civilization could never grow up on the move. He follows the migration of Bakhtiari tribe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakhtiari (I would like to know if the practice of leaving the old to die was really still happening as late as the 1970's or was this poetic license). Edited Clip's From The Ascent Of Man - Episode 2 - The Harvest Of The Seasons Full Episode ha...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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