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Bb Ci Audio Interviews: Evelyn Waugh
The BBC provides audio clips from a 1960 radio interview with Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966 CE), the novelist, travel writer and short-story writer. Additional content includes a brief biography and a list of key works.
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Bbc Teach: Aerobic Respiration
A description of aerobic respiration and a practical demonstration of the release of energy in food using the screaming jelly baby experiment.
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Bbc Teach: Acids and Alkalis
A laboratory demonstration is used to explain how increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are causing the pH of the oceans to change.
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Bbc Teach: Refraction of Light
An explanation of refraction including a practical demonstration of how Pyrex seems to disappear in vegetable oil.
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Bbc Teach: Microscopy
An explanation of the functions of light and electron microscopes with images from each type.
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Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Total Internal Reflection
Demonstration and explanation of total internal reflection, and description of its use in fibre optics.
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Bbc Teach: Newton's Third Law
Newton's third law is applied to skateboarders, water rockets and space rockets.
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Khan Academy: Sonenshine on Public Diplomacy and China
Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs of the U.S. Tara Sonenshine discusses how other countries approach public diplomacy, specifically China. [4:17]
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Bbc: Sound Kit 1
Create your own electronic composition using the effects in the sound kit. If you like your creation then send it to the gallery to share with others.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Homecoming: Anse La Raye by Derek Walcott
This site contains the poem "Homecoming: Anse la Raye" by Derek Walcott. You can read and follow along as Walcott recites his work.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Bessie Smith in Yorkshire by Adrian Mitchell
Listen and follow along as British author Adrian Mitchell recites his poem "Bessie Smith in Yorkshire."
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Love in the Lab by Jo Shapcott
Listen as this contemporary British author recites her poem "Love in the Lab." You can read and follow along.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: The Cats' Protection League
Cats get nasty in this poem loved by both children and adults. Watch as the author recites this work. You can follow along with the printed words.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Diary of a Church Mouse by Sir John Betjeman
Life in an English church is seen from an unusual angle in this poem by Britian's Poet Laureate, from 1972 until his death in 1984, Sir John Betjeman.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: The Mitchells by Les Murray
A poem on the values and practices of rural Australia. Listen and follow along as the author recites this work of poetry.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Miss World by Benjamin Zephaniah
This Rasta poet has a word or two about beauty contests. Listen and follow along as the author recites this poem about true beauty.
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Bbc Poetry Out Loud: Men and Their Boring Arguments by Wendy Cope
Gender differences are exposed with humour and a sharp knife in this poem by Wendy Cope. Listen and follow along as she recites her work.
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Bbc Scotland: Learning: Immigrants and Exiles: Irish in Ireland: Skibbereen
A traditional Irish ballad about the Irish Potato Famine and the mass migration that resulted therefrom.
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Bbc: Bbc Four: Audio Interviews: John Gielgud
Selections from interviews with the acclaimed John Gielgud, English actor, producer, and director, including his take on playing the lead in Hamlet.
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 1: Mummy of Hornedjitef 18 Jan 2010
This ornate Egyptian coffin holds secrets to the understanding of their priests' religion, Egyptian society and its connections to the rest of the world. At the age of eight, Neil MacGregor visited the British Museum for the first time...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 2: Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool 19 Jan 2010
A simple chipped stone from the Rift Valley in Tanzania marks the emergence of modern humans. Faced with the needs to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered how to shape stones into cutting tools. From that one...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 3: Olduvai Handaxe 20 Jan 2010
As early humans slowly began to move beyond their African homeland, they took with them one essential item - a handaxe. It is the most widely-used tool humans have created. Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, sees just how...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 4: Swimming Reindeer 21 Jan 2010
Found in France and dating back 13,000 years, this is a carving of two swimming reindeer. The creator of this carving was one of the first humans to express their world through art. But why did they do it? Neil MacGregor, Director of the...
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Bbc Podcasts: Episode 5: Clovis Spear Point 22 Jan 2010
This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north America. Within 2,000 years they had populated the whole continent....