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	Addicted to gaming Duration: 02:35 After years of playing computer games, Kieran realises he is addicted. Real life dramatisation.	safety online, computers, gaming, addiction, games, clinic, true stories, ICT

	True Stories - Florence Nightingale Duration: 11:17 Florence Nightingale tells the story of her life and shows how she grew up to become a nurse in the Crimean War.	Florence Nightingale, Victorians, Lady of the Lamp, Crimea, Crimean war, nurse, nursing, hospital, medicine, bandage, wounded, soldier, care, clean, truestories

	True Stories - Elizabeth Fry Duration: 11:50 Drama in which Elizabeth Fry tells the story of her life and shows us how, determined to do good, she reformed life for prisoners and their families at Newgate prison.	Elizabeth Fry, prison, reform, Newgate, criminal, Quaker, help, prisoner, poor, 18th century, 19th century, truestories

	True Stories - Thomas Barnardo Duration: 10:22 Thomas Barnardo tells the story of his life. We see Barnardo teaching at the Ragged School and discovering homeless boys sleeping on London’s rooftops and then setting up the first home for London’s street children.	Thomas Barnardo, slums, homeless, Ragged School, street children, London, poor, Victorian, Lord Shaftesbury, children, help, destitute, 19th century, truestories

	True Stories - Harriet Tubman Duration: 11:56 Drama in which Harriet Tubman tells the story of her life. She shows us how she escaped slavery and then went back to help others escape too.	Harriet Tubman, slave, slavery, freedom, escape, cotton, Underground Railroad, bravery, fear, slave catcher, 19th century, 20th century, truestories

	True Stories - Rosa Parks Duration: 11:12 Drama in which Rosa Parks tells the story of her life. She shows how her refusal to give up her seat on the bus in Alabama in 1955 changed the rules and led towards equality and justice for everyone, whatever the colour of their skin.	Rosa Parks, civil rights, black history, injustice, protest, bus, segregation, difference, law, difference, seat, 20th century, truestories

	The Sun and the Wind (English) Duration: 05:28 Who is stronger – the wind or the sun?	fable, Aesop, Aesop's fables, sun, wind, short story, modern retelling, adaptation, beginning, middle, end, Telling Tales, Telling Tales English version, subtitled

	True Stories - Grace Darling Duration: 11:31 Drama in which Grace Darling tells the story of her life as a lighthouse keeper's daughter, and describes the night she and her father rowed out in their tiny boat to save nine sailors from drowning.	Grace Darling, lighthouse, ships, rock, sea, storm, sailor, safety, rowing, waves, light, heroine, brave, girl, family, warning, 19th century, truestories

	True Stories - Edward Jenner Duration: 11:05 Drama in which Edward Jenner tells the story of his life and how he discovered how to vaccinate people against smallpox.	Edward Jenner, smallpox, vaccine, cowpox, milkmaid, cow, pus, scab, disease, vaccination, doctor, skin, outbreak, 18th century, 19th century, truestories

	True Stories - Alexander Graham Bell Duration: 10:46 Drama in which Alexander Graham Bell tells the story of his life and describes how he invented the telephone.	Alexander Graham Bell, telephone, inventor, Watson, acid, wire, sound, piano, deaf, hearing, machine, vibration, idea, 19th century, 20th century, truestories

	True Stories - Isambard Kingdom Brunel Duration: 10:13 Isambard Kingdom Brunel tells the story of his life. The drama shows how he became an engineer and tunnelled through Box Hill to build the Great Western Railway.	Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian, engineer, tunnel, Great Western Railway, steam train, inventor, Box Hill, transport, 19th century, truestories

	True Stories - Mary Anning Duration: 11:44 Drama in which Mary Anning tells the story of her life and shows us how she found the fossils that changed scientific thinking.	Mary Anning, fossil, Ichthyosaur, fossil hunter, beach, stones, curiosities, shells, dinosaur, sea, mud, museum, fossilised, Plesiosaur, Elizabeth Philpott, science, 19th century, truestories

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