Desc: Living with Technology: A Foundation Course - Patterns in the Dust: Directed by Philip Ashby. With Tessa Shaw, Roger Brierley, Simon James, Ruth Carraway. Patterns In The Dust is a drama-documentary based on a true story of medical research in the 1960s in Britain. Esme Hadfield, a newly appointed GP, noted an unusually large concentration of nasal cancer in a particular area.