The ever observant Edmund Chattoe-Brown pointed me in the direction of this wonderful archive of British Council documentaries from the 1940s. You might save The Life Cycle of the Newt for another time but check out The Second Freedom - for the sense of optimism about the welfare state (still being planned) and The General Election - about the 1945 General Election contest in Kettering where the the incumbent is none other than one Colonel John Profumo, later disgraced in the Christine Keeler Affair and then redeemed by 40 odd years of quiet good works at Toynbee Hall.
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Death and Capitalism (Part 4 of 4)
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Death comes for us all. We are outlived, as Barkandji man Woddy Harris
would have it, by Mother Nature, who holds us in something that I think he
would lik...
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