Philippe Hosiasson, peintre ukrainien du XXème siècle, risque d’être oublié par l’Histoire de l’art. Pourtant, son talent pour l’abstraction, son exposition aux côtés de Soulages à la galerie Kootz à New York et ses relations…
Dans une mine de Ouagadougou, au Burkina Faso, tout le monde, des enfants aux personnes âgées, travaille à l’extraction, au transport et à la fragmentation du granit en dehors de toute organisation d’entreprise et dans le cadre des règles établies…
Le barrage El Mansour Eddhabi, construit en 1972 par le gouvernement marocain, menace le mode de vie des éleveurs nomades. Le contrôle de l’eau est problématique : cette ressource doit-elle être rationalisée au profit du développement de la ville ou doit-on…
Janet is 36 and a resident in a hostel for mentally handicapped adults. She is a Jehovah's Witness, having joined with her mother some years previously. She and Stephen would like to marry, but recieve little support. Her mother doesn't take the idea seriously, the hostel staff humour her,…
Energy Carol A cartoon about spirits: the spirits of energy past, present and future. Future energy takes Ebenezer on a tour of tomorrow's world. He comes back a shaken man. "There's still time," says Future Energy, "if you're willing to change". "I'll…
Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan poet, describes what it feels like to live in exile in Argentina, his works banned and his associates murdered by authorities. His sensitivty and humour make it a moving experience. At this time, Argentina was more liberal than Uruguay but facing terrible economic problems…
Warns the general public and workers about the dangers of asbestos and discusses many of the issues involved in deal with it. In particular, the programme reveals why the millions of tons of asbestos installed in our system-built housing, schools and hospitals in the sixties and seventies will continue…
Hundreds of black South Africans are known to have died from diseases caused by working with asbestos. Although blue asbestos is banned in England because it causes cancer and other diseases, it is still being mined and processed in South Africa, with very few precautions, and people actually make bricks…
Shows the mining of asbestos in Australia, where large companies take advantage of the lack of safety regulations to exploit mainly Aboriginal workers. Now the dangers of cancer caused by asbestos are well known, governments and multi-national companies should be taking action, but what happens is that…
Mainly devoted to the early recognition of primary cutaneous melanoma. It was rare in the past and treatment results were poor. Although the incidence is now increasing, the results of treatment have improved. Most important factor affecting cure is early diagnosis. This film made in 1985 reflects…
The Cystic Fibrosis Unit at St James's Hospital Leeds, has developed a comprehensive assessment programme for patiences with the disease which is used to prescribe optimum treatment for individual patients. The unit's experience is that cystic fibrosis is sufficiently rare that many clinicians…
Valium - a number of women describe how it feels to be depressed on this drug, and how they would like to be free of it. A doctor explains how prescribing it can often be a substitute for real help such as counselling, and a girl tests doctors by going with a made-up story of slight depression and getting…
