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			Catching The Light : Where's the Piggy on Piggy Hill?
			A sixty second video, made as part of the ‘Catching the Light’ project; supported by Somerset Film and Video, with the aim of encouraging people to write, shoot and edit their own one-minute film.

			Catching The Light : Hidden Memories
			A sixty second video, made as part of the ‘Catching the Light’ project. This short but concise documentary follows the history of the Lord Desborough, beginning with the discovery of a painting of a ship captained by the narrator’s grandfather.

			Catching The Light : Glastonbury Over The Years
			A sixty second video, made as part of the ‘Catching the Light’ project. This short draws on Super 8 film footage of Glastonbury in the 1960s and early 1970s.

			Victorian Leicester : Episode 9 - Ideas and Beliefs
			This audio recording is ninth and last in a series of talks about Victorian Leicester, originally made for schools and broadcast in the early 1970s. The speaker, Professor Simmons, begins by examining the modern view of Victorians as being very religious, and explains how although this was certainly true in the prosperous areas of society, many poorer workers actually avoided public worship.

			Victorian Leicester : Episode 8 - Education
			This audio recording on the subject of Education is eighth in a series of talks about Victorian Leicester, originally made for schools and broadcast in the early 1970s.

			Victorian Leicester : Episode 7 - Crime
			This audio recording on the subject of Crime is seventh in a series of talks about Victorian Leicester, originally made for schools and broadcast in the early 1970s. The speaker, Professor Jack Simmons introduces the subject by looking at famous cases from the period.

			Victorian Leicester : Episode 1 - The Town
			This audio recording is the introduction to a series of talks about Victorian Leicester, originally made for schools, in the early 1970s.

			I Was There
			A short video piece looking at one woman’s memories of her father as a miner and their family’s extensive involvement in supporting the miners’ strikes in the 1980s, fighting for what they believed was right.

			Cinema
			Extracts from an audio-interview with a cinema projectionist working in Leicester from 1920s until the 1950s.

			Employment
			A compilation of audio-interview extracts recalling employment in Leicester during the first half of the twentieth century.

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