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This is the first of two television programmes which attempt to emphasise our present day dependence on technology. They run parallel to the "Final Block" of the course, in which student...s read set books (which will change every two years) and prepare for the final TMA essay. Study advice is given in a prologue. The programme is based on the BBC series "Living in the Past" for which 12 people lived together for a year in a replica Iron Age Farm, with as little twentieth century back up as reasonble. Sequences were chosen for relevance to some of the topics covered earlier in the course, viz. shelter, food and resources with some references to communications, energy and health. A new commentary highlights the practical tasks involved, knowledge and organisation needed and hardware used by the 'volunteers', and draws connections between energy, materials and trade. There is a follow up radio programme which draws on this material to test out a definition of technology.
This is the first of two television programmes which attempt to emphasise our present day dependence on technology. They run parallel to the "Final Block" of the course, in which student...s read set books (which will change every two years) and prepare for the final TMA essay. Study advice is given in a prologue. The programme is based on the BBC series "Living in the Past" for which 12 people lived together for a year in a replica Iron Age Farm, with as little twentieth century back up as reasonble. Sequences were chosen for relevance to some of the topics covered earlier in the course, viz. shelter, food and resources with some references to communications, energy and health. A new commentary highlights the practical tasks involved, knowledge and organisation needed and hardware used by the 'volunteers', and draws connections between energy, materials and trade. There is a follow up radio programme which draws on this material to test out a definition of technology.
| Module code and title: | T101, Living with technology: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | T101; 16; 1982 |
| First transmission date: | 18-09-1982 |
| Published: | 1982 |
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| Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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| Producer: | Colin Robinson |
| Contributors: | John Naughton; David Walker |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Archaeology; History of technology; Iron Age |
| Master spool number: | OU4050 |
| Production number: | FOUT144K |
| Videofinder number: | 2214 |
| Available to public: | no |
