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Torchwood
| Subject: mediastudies
| Language: English
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| Topic: Drama genre | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Science fiction | Duration: 1:24 |
Content Description:
Opening sequence to a Torchwood episode; series created as a spin off from the success of the new Doctor Who. Includes the title sequence and the opening scene introducing the location, the setting and some characters including Captain Jack.
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Chough Nest
| Subject: science
| Language: English
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| Topic: Life processes and living things | School Level: 7-9 |
| Sub-Topic: Birds | Duration: 1'23" |
Content Description:
Iolo Williams clip showing a montage of scenes from a special camera above a chough nest - shows how the eggs are incubated, their hatching and how the young birds grow in the nest.
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First World War - A Telegram Arrives
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: First World War | Duration: 0:43 |
Content Description:
Memories of seeing soldiers coming home injured from the trenches in the First World War and of families receiving the dreaded telegram - informing them that their son had been killed in action. Includes archive of the fighting.
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The Welsh Gypsies
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Modern Wales and Britain | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Rural life | Duration: 1:28 |
Content Description:
Clip from 1964 showing the life of Welsh gypsies as they lived their life then. By that time gipsies were starting to use modern caravans instead of their traditional multi coloured horse drawn wooden ones. This clip shows both ways of life.
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Gavin and Stacey
| Subject: mediastudies
| Language: English
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| Topic: Drama genre | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Situation comedy | Duration: 1:20 |
Content Description:
Clip from the situation comedy series Gavin and Stacey broadcast on BBC Three and BBC One. 1st episode of the 2nd series. Opening titles then a scene with Gavin and Stacey arriving at the airport after their honeymoon. They are met by Mick and Pam.
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Coal Miners - A Woman's Work
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Industrial Wales and Britain | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Coal industry | Duration: 0:58 |
Content Description:
Reconstruction of miners' lives from 1927 showing the how the wives lived - they are shown washing clothes, cleaning the cottages and collecting water from the standpipe.
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Robert Owen
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Industrial Wales and Britain | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Robert Owen | Duration: 3:05 |
Content Description:
A look at the life of Robert Owen, born in Newtown in 1771, responsible for setting up the cooperative experiments in New Lanark in Scotland and managing improvements in working conditions in the cotton mills there.
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Paul Robeson
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Modern Wales and Britain | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Paul Robeson | Duration: 2:21 |
Content Description:
Clip on links between Paul Robeson and the Welsh miners including his appearance in the film 'Proud Valley' and his message to the 1957 Miners Eisteddfod in Porthcawl from New York as the American authorities had denied him permission to leave the USA.
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Harold's Oath to William the Conqueror
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Normans | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: William the Conqueror | Duration: 1:03 |
Content Description:
In 1054 King Harold swore an oath to William the Conqueror promising him help to gain the English throne. The Normans claimed that he swore willingly while the Saxons claimed that he acted under subjugation. Both versions are reconstructed here.
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Hedd Wyn - The Hero
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: First World War | Duration: 3:16 |
Content Description:
Story of Hedd Wyn ( born Ellis Evans), Trawsfynydd poet who won the chair in the 1917 National Eisteddfod in Birkenhead having died at the First World War battle of Passchendaele a few days before. That year the Chair was covered in a black cloth.
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Why is there a Cockerel on the Kellog's Box?
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Welsh language | Duration: 1:32 |
Content Description:
Clip on the Welsh language's role in the history of Corn Flakes. When Nancy Richards, harpist visited the Kellog household she pointed out that the name Kellog was similar to 'ceiliog', Welsh for cockerel. Hence the cockerel that still appears on the box.
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Shell Shock in World War I
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: First World War | Duration: 1:26 |
Content Description:
A relative of a shell shock victim remembers their feelings when he was brought back from the trenches of the First World War.
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Tiger Bay
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Politics and economy | Duration: 2:00 |
Content Description:
Clip showing the old Cardiff Docklands, as it existed in 1968, with its multicultural feel, just before the old Tiger Bay housing was demolished in the first refurbishment of Cardiff Bay
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What Makes Us Human?
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Meaning and purpose of life | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: What makes us human? | Duration: 2:02 |
Content Description:
Clip from Dr Who where a cyberman is dying and reverts to near humanity just before dying. Raises questions as to what is essential for human life as well as questions on the basic ingredients of the human soul.
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Dot Finds a Baby
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Sacrificial love | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Selfish or Selfless? | Duration: 2:55 |
Content Description:
Eastenders clip showing Dot Cotton believing that she's been given a second chance from God when she finds a baby in a rural church. Baby Tomos had been left by an asylum seeker in the church and Dot takes the baby home with her.
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Match of the Day 1960's
| Subject: mediastudies
| Language: English
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| Topic: Sport | School Level: 14-16 |
| Sub-Topic: Football | Duration: 2:10 |
Content Description:
Clip from an old Match of the Day from 1964. Black and white shots show the programme presenter, Kenneth Wolstenholme introducing team line-ups from the Chelsea v Leeds Utd game. Then some footage from the match.
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Swansea Blitz - Recollections
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Twentieth century world | School Level: 11-14 |
| Sub-Topic: Second World War | Duration: 1:05 |
Content Description:
A mix of archive footage and interview with a historian tells the story of Swansea in the Blitz in the Second World War and how the city recovered after this time.
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New Church 'Window'
| Subject: religiouseducation
| Language: English
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| Topic: Attitudes to wealth | School Level: post 16 |
| Sub-Topic: Why should we help others? | Duration: 1:45 |
Content Description:
Clip on wealth and charity giving from Vicar of Dibley. Geraldine discloses that all the money raised for a new church window has gone to Colombian earthquake victims. The window has been replaced by a view onto the village - nobody complains at all.
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Aberfan
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Modern Wales and Britain | School Level: 9-11 |
| Sub-Topic: Aberfan | Duration: 1:39 |
Content Description:
A look back to the day of the disaster at Aberfan in 1966 when a coal tip slid down the mountain and buried a local primary school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
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Tudor Food
| Subject: history
| Language: English
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| Topic: Tudors and Stuarts | School Level: 9-11 |
| Sub-Topic: Tudors | Duration: 1:10 |
Content Description:
Clip showing wealthy Tudor kitchen including recipes and various forms of food. Also the work of the servants in preparing food.
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