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The following programme synopses are used with the kind permission of BBC: Education and Training.
This classic documentary investigates the chemical plant explosion at Flixborough in which 28 people died and asks what lessons can be learned for the future.
30 minutes. 1975.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
In 1980 Mount St Helen's in north-west America erupted with 500 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, killing at 63 people. This best-selling video looks at the events leading up to the explosion and, using unique photographs, analyses it frame by frame.
55 minutes 1980
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
In February 96 the Sea Empress supertanker ran aground and dumped 70,000 tonnes of oil on the South Wales coast. By chance, Marine Laboratories had been studying this particular coastline for 50 years and were waiting to test ideas about environmental catastrophes. With unparalleled access to the scientists, HORIZON finds out if oil spills are really the ecological disasters we have come to dread, or just a small price to pay for driving our cars?
50 minutes 1997
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Updating the original award winning programme, this HORIZON Special looks at what has changed at Chernobyl 10 years after the world's worst nuclear accident. With the concrete sarcophagus still crumbling the future of the power station remains uncertain. This video traces three of the original scientists from the investigation team who talk openly about their findings, what has since happened and what remains to be done.
50 minutes 1996
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
The Kobe earth quake came without warning and killed 5,400 people. Exactly a year earlier, and again without warning another major earthquake struck Northridge, California. In both Japan and the USA scientists claim to be able to predict earthquakes - so what went wrong? Has the dream of the earthquake prediction been shattered? If so, what is the future role of seismologists?
50 minutes 1995
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
In 1992 the nuclear industry celebrated its 50th anniversary and the report on the accident at Chernobyl claimed there was no evidence of long-term health effects. Within months, the team of Western scientists presented a very different picture with evidence of an epidemic of thyroid cancers in local children. This video looks at the long-term effects of the low-level radiation to which the whole local population were exposed.
50 minutes 1996
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
HORIZON tells the story of Harold Wellman, who, in the 1930s, left his native Somerset to prospect for gold in New Zealand and made an extraordinary geological discovery-that the Earth's crust is fluid. His ideas were rejected at the time, but have now borne fruit as a radical theory which explains, for the first time, how mountains are built.
50 minutes 1992
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
This classic HORIZON video shows the energy producing potential of turning depleted uranium into plutonium. But there are safety risks, and engineers must reduce the chances of the worst possible accident to only once in a million years.
50 minutes 1980
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
By the late 1970s, uranium had become one of the world's most sought-after commodities. But in an expanding nuclear future, the uranium could be used up in as little as 30 years. A choice of where to go after uranium had to be made quickly.
50 minutes 1979
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Acid rain was one aspect of environmental pollution high on the green agenda of the 1980s. Looking at the evidence from northern europe, this programme examines the background to the spread and recognition of this deadly environmental poison.
50 minutes. 1982.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
When a massive explosion blew up the nuclear reactor in 1986, it raised public concern about the safety of British generators. This video asks what sort of accident could happen in the UK and how we are prepared to deal with it.
55 minutes. 1987.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
The automobile represents the American dream of freedom of the individual, but 70% of the world's lethal air pollution and a quarter of green house gases come from cars. Now Los Angeles has developed a plan to clean up its air by 2007. This video looks at the car industry's new technology and a new style of city that could end the love affair with the automobile.
50 minutes. 1991.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
The rise in skin cancer is widely believed to be caused by an increase in ultra violet radiation, caused in turn by ozone depletion. Is this belief based upon established fact? In search of the truth about ozone, HORIZON follows the plan to send a robot called Dante into an antarctic volcano called Erubus - the Greek for hell.
50 minutes. 1993.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
The world is getting warmer. This video examines how the burning of fossil fuels has added so much carbon monoxide (dioxide? - DM) to the atmosphere that the temperature is increasing. What hope has the world of avoiding the greenhouse effect?
50 minutes. 1988.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
In 1986, the reactor at the nuclear plant exploded. On the fifth anniversary of the disaster, this video tells the story of the remarkable scientists who are dedicating their lives to working in the highly radioactive reactor, building, at considerable risk to themselves, a 'sarcophagus' around the reactor to prevent a second explosion.
50 minutes. 1991.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Why, when we know how life works, can't we say how it began? The latest molecular biology, can make genes reproduce but cannot give them life. Did something come before biology, and might it have begun in the molten world below the ocean floor.
50 minutes. 1993.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Snake venom, arsenic and DDT are well known poisons. They are toxic chemicals, but they can be useful because their mechanisms are understood and antidotes are available. But the chemical revolution since World War II has introduced a new family of poisons - man made, invisible, little understood, totally useless but totally devastating. The most deadly of these is dioxin, a by product in the manufacture of certain herbicides, 4,000 times more poisonous than arsenic. Research has now shown that dioxin is related to a number of wasting diseases.
50 minutes. 1986
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
American scientists must prove that wherever the nation's lethal high - level nuclear waste is buried, it will be safe. HORIZON investigates their research in the Nevada Desert.
55 minutes. 1990.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
When the oil and gas wells finally run dry, what will power our cars, buses and aeroplanes? Surprisingly, the answer might be hydrogen. It is a clean and superbly efficient fuel that could be used for transport and in the home virtually forever. When you 'split' water - and you can use any solar, nuclear or conventional energy source to do it - you produce hydrogen and oxygen gases. Burn that hydrogen in a car and you get back energy and water, with remarkably little pollution.
50 minutes. 1979
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
In the 1950s the Thames was chemically dead for 30 miles through the heart of London. This video looks at an environmental success story - the cleaning up of this great river.
50 minutes. 1977.
Cost: £100.00 + p. & p. + VAT
This video looks at the disaster two years on and examines the repercussions of pollution, tanker safety and the apportioning of blame. The story is an intriguing combination of wildlife disaster and recovery, the power of the oil industry and the influence of the media.
50 minutes. 1991.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Britain has the largest history of industrialisation in the world, but this heritage has left a legacy of contaminated land - some of it poisonous. In 1990, the government announced proposals to register all such land, but those with a stake in development and the housing industry lobbied against it and in 1993 the register was dropped. The losers in this battle are the ordinary home - buyers who will be unable to find out if the land underneath their new home has a history of contamination.
30 minutes.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Chemical pollution from various industries along the St. Lawrence river in Canada ended up in the bodies of the indigenous Beluga Whales. The dead whales, after autopsies were performed, were classified as 'toxic waste' - and were disposed as. This programme looks at the possible sources of the chemicals concerned and how they ended up being consumed by the whales.
30 minutes. 1990
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Chlorine is a chemical that produces some of the most toxic compounds known to man, but it is also a chemical upon which we have to come to depend in almost every part of our daily lives. Nature travels across Europe examining the evidence for and against chlorine.
30 minutes. 1991
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Seventy years ago, it was almost unknown for people to be admitted to hospital with asthma. Today, in Britain, it is the most common reason for hospital admission amongst children of primary school age and, after heart disease and strokes, the most common reason amongst the population as a whole. This video reveals for the first time, unpublished research that people living near major roads are significantly more likely to have asthma attacks. The solution may be an alternative approach to engine design, fuel consumption and ultimately a reappraisal of the role of the motor car in modern life.
30 minutes. 1993
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Iodine deficiency causes both mental and physical retardation and it is estimated that more than half of Bangladesh's 110 million population may be affected. This video follows UNICEF's plans to supplement iodine in people's diets by adding it to salt. It's a cheap and effective solution, but political instability, poverty and religious convictions threaten to undermine the plan.
30 minutes. 1991
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
In 1984 the world was shocked when the city of Bhopal was poisoned by a cloud of lethal gas which escaped from the Union Carbide factory. Massive claims for compensation and the question of culpability resulted in legal wrangling, whilst doctors were divided over what actually caused the poisoning and how to treat it. This disaster produced nothing but dispute and confusion - and the suffering continues.
40 minutes. 1985.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Most people prefer not to think about the consequences of nuclear war. This video simulates what would happen if a bomb exploded in London. All the events depicted are based on scientific proven fact and set out in plain scientific terms.
30 minutes. 1982.
Cost: £65.00 + p. & p. + VAT
The millions of different substances that make up the world stem from the chemical elements. These, arranged in order of their atomic number, form the periodic table.
20 minutes 1985
Cost: £125.00 + p & p + VAT
This series provides a refreshing human look at the world of science, aiming to show that there is more to chemistry than meets the eye.
Cost: £350.00 (series) + p. & p. + VAT
The story of Lise Meitner, the woman who discovered atomic fission and was forgotten by history.
30 minutes. 1992.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
David Jones (of BBC Radio 4's 'The Litmus Test' and ex New Scientist's Daedalus - DM) explores the mystery surrounding Napoleon's death.
30 minutes. 1992.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
After his horse failed a routine drugs test, show jumper David Broome set out to discover why.
30 minutes. 1992.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Ian Fells discovers what caused the fatal fireball of the 'Lady Delia'.
30 minutes. 1992.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Two factions fight it out over how to conserve an ancient cathedral.
30 minutes. 1992.
Cost: £125.00 + p. & p. + VAT
Since the Gulf War, the number of British and American veterans reporting sickness has soared to 70,000, yet according to official sources there is no evidence of 'Gulf War Syndrome'. This programme reveals how the counter-measures use to protect troops against chemical and biological weapons may have backfired, making some veterans seriously ill. Worse still, with a terrifying range of chemical and biological weapons that now exist, is it possible to defend troops at all?
50 minutes. 1998 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Are changes in modern living increasing levels of oestrogen and threatening males of different species, from alligators to humans?
50 minutes. 1996. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
These six lively and entertaining 10 minute programmes offer practical advice on how to improve your health by altering eating habits. Each programme features experts in nutrition who explain the dangers and advantages of eating certain foodstuffs. Also shown are families who have successfully adapted to new eating patterns. This video examines in detail a balanced diet, starch and fibre, fats, sugar, additives and preservatives, and eating out.
60 minutes. 1986 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £125.00 + p & p + VAT
In 1985, two scientists tried to create the surface of a star in the laboratory. In doing so, they glimpsed what chemistry said could not exist-a third form of solid carbon. How and why does it form? Is it out there in space? Or is it the solution to one of the great mysteries of the universe?
50 minutes. 1992. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
This revised and updated award-winning programme looks at the work of Howard Florey and Norman Heatley in the development of penicillin. It includes footage shot by Florey himself showing how penicillin treatment was administered for the first time to soldiers in Africa in 1943.
50 minutes. 1991. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
This two-part video is about the legendary American physicist, teacher, Bongo drummer and adventurer in life, Richard Feynman. A unique combination of genius and simplicity, Feynman was hugely irreverent but always completely honest. HORIZON gives a vivid insight into how the mind of a great creative scientist works and also paints an exciting and amusing portrait of an extraordinary man.
100 minutes. 1992 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Richard Feynman was one of the world's outstanding scientists. He had a life-long obsession for finding out how the world works and a passion for knowledge. He also had a gift for transmitting the excitement of discovery. HORIZON provides a unique opportunity of meeting a very remarkable man, as he explores how the laws of nature link everything together.
50 minutes. 1981. PAL VHS tape
Cost: at £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Set in the early 1950s and filmed in muted tones to reflect the austere atmosphere of the time, this drama-documentary tells the true story of a Britain, Francis Crick (Tim Piggott-Smith) and an American, Jim Watson (Jeff Goldblum), who produced one of the greatest scientific achievements of the century-building the first model of the structure of DNA.
105 minutes. 1987. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
Jonathan Porrit presents this hard-hitting look at some of the most exciting green alternatives facing the world today.
1: Energy and Pollution - non-nuclear power strategy.
2: Food and Agriculture-environmentally benign forms of farming.
3: Green Society - will middle class fads become standard behaviour?
4: Industry and Work-the environmentally responsible industry.
5: International Perspective-One World or No World - crises of today are encouraging greater co-operation.
6: Getting There - Body Politic, Immortal Soul - will the perception of green as left wing block ideas in the USA.
6 x 25 minutes. 1990. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £125.00 per episode + p & p + VAT Cost: £210.00 series + p & p + VAT
Barrow Island, off north-west Australia, is the country's second largest oilfield, but it is an oilfield with a difference. Drilling operations are planned so that there is the least possible damage to the habitat of the extraordinary animals that inhabit the area. David Attenborough narrates this rare success story which shows that the oil industry and wildlife can live, and even thrive together.
30 minutes. 1992. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £125.00 + p & p + VAT
In 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and split open of the coast of Alaska, spilling 10 million barrels of oil into the sea. This ecological disaster sparked an angry debate about the oil company's plans to develop Alaska.
40 minutes. 1989. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £65.00 + p & p + VAT
The automobile represents the American dream of freedom of the individual, but 70 per cent of the world's lethal air pollution and a quarter of greenhouse gases come from cars. Now Los Angeles has developed a plan to clean up its air by 2007. This video looks at the car industry's new technology and a new style of city that could end the affair with the automobile.
50 minutes. 1991 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £99.00 + p & p + VAT
Three out of a series of six drama-documentaries which reconstruct events at the heart of technological disasters.
3: The Goiana Incident -two thieves broke into a disused clinic in Brazil and sold on parts from a machine which was contaminated with caesium 137.
5: The Chemical Scythe -the investigations into the link between organophosphate chemicals commonly used for sheep dipping and nerve gas.
6: October Fire - a devastating accident involving a Russian nuclear submarine K219 in 1986.
3 x 30 minutes. 1997.
Cost: £125.00 per episode + p & p + VAT
In 1992, people in the northern hemisphere were warned of the increasing risks of skin cancer and cataracts because of the massive depletion of the ozone layer. Using startling new images from NASA and the latest research findings, HORIZON links the ozone loss to volcanic eruptions which trigger climatic change.
50 minutes. 1992. PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p & p + VAT
DNA opens up exciting possibilities-the use of new genetics to diagnose and treat disease, to answer the puzzle of human free will, to battle against AIDS and understand how little we differ from the great apes. The series, written and presented by David Suzuki examines DNA's control of all life's processes. Topics covered:
1. We Are One: the DNA connection-how close are we to pigs and worms?
2. Freedom In The Genes-is behaviour inherited?
3. Birth To, Sex And Death-genetic control of the human life cycle.
4. Evolution-DNA as the engine of evolution.
5. The Cancer Hunters-genetic faults and new forms of treatment.
6. Fighting Disease: the body invaders-can AIDS become a nightmare of the past?
7. Against Nature: the mouse that laid the golden egg-animals bred for organ transplantation.
8. Gene therapy: designer children-moral and ethical issues of curing inherited disease.
50 minutes 1993 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
How would we feel about the uniqueness of diamonds if it is possible to make one in the laboratory, just like the real thing, down to the nearest atom? In the last few years there has been a scientific race to do exactly this: to manufacture the perfect gem diamond.
50 minutes 2000 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
Someone made a simple mistake. A radiotherapy machine was sold to a scrap yard. Eventually, more radioactive material was released than in the Three Mile Island incident.
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £125.00 + p&p + VAT
The chemicals (organophosphates) used in sheep dip can be as deadly as nerve gas.
30 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £125.00 + p&p + VAT
In 1981 a terrifying unidentified disease swept across Spain affecting more than 17,000 people and killing over 300 in just one year. This video examines the traumatic events and subsequent investigations into this mystifying disease known today as Toxic Shock Syndrome.
50 minutes 1982 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
This two-part profile features a dramatised interview with Einstein ( played by Andrew Sachs), revealing previously unknown aspects of his personal life and character. It chronicles the origins of the extraordinary ideas that he developed as a young man, and provides new explanations and insights into the theories that have underpinned much of modern science.
50 minutes 1996 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
Why, when we know how life works, can't we say how it begun? The latest molecular biology can make genes reproduce but it cannot given life. Did something come before biology, and might it have begun in the molten world below the ocean floor?
50 minutes 1993 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
a quiet revolution is transforming material technology. The emerging science of smart materials is setting the next century's agenda. A smart material changes its properties in response to changes in its environment and today's designers draw their inspiration from nature. HORIZON explores this extraordinary new field.
50 minutes 1993 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
30 years ago, human research into psychedelics was banned, after the drug crazed Charles Manson slayings. Now, with its use among school children rising, human LSD trials are about to resume in Washington-to re-examine the drugs therapeutic value.
50 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
Dr Graeme Mather has dedicated his entire working life to proving, once and for all, clouds can be made to rain by human intervention. Now, after 30 years of fruitless searching, Graeme believes that he has made a breakthrough that will make cloud seeding a legitimate science. HORIZON tells the story of one man's persistence and his amazing discovery that could end droughts and revolutionise water management the world over.
50 minutes 1998 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
After the 1986 breakthrough achievement of superconductivity at easily attainable temperatures, there followed an astonishing race to improve, explain and exploit the new materials. This is the extraordinary tale of international rivalry leading up to the Nobel Prize.
50 minutes 1988 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
In 1989 the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and split open off the coast of Alaska, spilling ten million barraels of crude oil into the sea. This ecological disiaster sparked an angry debate about the oil companies' to devolp Alaska.
50 minutes 1997 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
In 1990, the Soviet Union needed the oil output from Western Siberia to keep its sinking economy afloat, but now this economic lifeline threatens the ecosystem of the tundra-homeland of the nomadic Netsy people. In the Gorbachev era, environmentalists found the freedom to speak out about the damage being done by the oil and gas industry-but is anyone taking notice.
50 minutes 1990 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
Some farming communities in the United Kingdom and Ireland have had to face financial ruin from a series of deaths amongst there cattle. This documentary examines the cause of this blight and uncovers evidence of chemical toxins produced from burnt waste-toxins that could also be affecting the health of the human population.
50 minutes 1986 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p + VAT
Traces the history of the discovery & development of anaesthesia.
50 minutes 1974 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p +VAT
Nitric Oxide, a poisonous gas which causes acid rain, is involved in everything from blood pressure control to fighting cancer cells.
50 minutes 1993 PAL VHS tape
Cost: £100.00 + p&p +VAT
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