National Smile Week

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The Box
Established in 1992, the South West Film & Television Archive collection spans from 1893 to the present day containing more than 250,000 items. Formed from a variety of depositors, including broadcast news and programmes material from the Westward and TSW archive. In 2018 the archive collection transferred to The Box in Plymouth.

National Smile Week

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The UK's largest oral health campaign, National Smile Month (formerly week).

It's National Smile Week, and dentists are opening their surgeries so that the public can visit to talk about their fears. The British Dental Association, together with the Oral Health Foundation charity, is trying to encourage the public into the dentist's chair.

You can visit your local dentist throughout Smile Week to discuss cost and your oral hygiene. It also helps to remove the stigma of pain or horrible noises which the majority of the public associate with dentists.


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Working Life and Homelessness

Life and economics in the South West.
Here we have some harder hitting titles from the SWFTA collection at The Box, revealing what it's like to live in the South West during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Several stories explore issues around work life / home life balance, while we also see people struggling with redundancy, mental health issues, rural homelessness, tax and recession. But it's not all doom and gloom: there are also uplifting news stories of entrepreneurial spirit, people discussing the economic growth of the South-West, a fit-for-work awards ceremony and a dentist's office opening its doors in order to debunk myths that all dentists are scary.

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Futurework Part 1

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Futurework Part 2

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One and All: A Question of Cornwall pt 3

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Cornwall's Longest Serving Vet

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Again Too Little Too Late

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Rural Homeless

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People Power

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Ponsanooth Power Mill

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Corrupt Council

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Pharmacy

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School Cleaners

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Traditional Farming

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National Smile Week

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Grey Matter

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The Money is the Route of... Redundancy

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The Money is the Route of... Debt

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The Money is the Route of... Homelessness

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The Money is the Route of... Family Change

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The Money is the Route of... The Future

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Handicapped Telephonist

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VATs after Effects

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Pubs Closing

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Fit for Work Award

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Industrial Recession

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