5 things from the last few days that deserve their own 36hr news
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Living in Britain in 1984 | Forty Minutes: Voices in a City | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
In 1948, George Orwell wrote his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, an imaginary account of what life in Britain might be like in that year. Of his book, Orwell said: 'I do…
Gull sips man’s coffee before stealing his mug
A gull has taken revenge on a man who was installing anti-bird spikes in a Cornish town - by drinking his coffee and pinching his mug. {read}
BBC Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death Documentary
For a medieval woman approaching the moment of labour and birth, there were no antiseptics to ward off infection or anaesthetics to deal with pain. Historian Helen Castor reveals how…
John Berger on Ways of Seeing, being an artist, and Marxism (2011)
Newsnight archives
Babysitter finds man under bed after child complains of ‘monster’
A babysitter found a man hiding under a child's bed in Kansas after the child complained about a "monster" being there. While trying to show the child there was nothing…
Tooth and Claw: Wolves
We look at wolves and the programme is a little different, because the predator we’re talking about is very much a predator of our imaginations. Wolves are the spirit of…
Little Ice Age
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discusses the impact of the Little Ice Age, a period of significant cooling from the 15th to early 19th centuries that caused widespread famine, drought, and socio-economic…
French government collapses in no-confidence vote
The French government has collapsed after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was ousted in a no-confidence vote. MPs voted overwhelmingly in support of the motion against him - just three months…