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  1. Piers Plowman: The Wild Way (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 58 min.

    Professor Brooks takes his listeners on a guided tour of the poem.

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  2. Use and Abuse of Literary Criticism, The (1974 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 58 min.

    Discusses the use and abuse of literary criticism.

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  3. Congreve’s ‘The Way of the World’ (2 Parts) (1979 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 54, 61 min.

    Professor Brooks clarifies the complications of the plot, and then examines the world Congreve depicts, the duel between the hero and heroine, the characterisation in the play and the writer’s style.

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  4. Dryden’s ‘Macflecknoe’: An Appreciation (1976 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette.

    Professor Brooks considers the origin of the satire and the choice of Flecknoe for the attack upon Shadwell. He then examines the central concept of the poem, its special qualities as a specimen of the...

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  5. Virginia Woolf: The Nine Ages of Man: ‘The Waves’ (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 26, 35 min.

    Professor Brooks considers first the origin and general form of the novel ‘The Waves’, and in Part 2 analyses the novel and Bernard’s culminating vision.

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  6. Shaw the Victorian (4 Parts) (1973 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 26, 15, 17, 39 min.

    Part 1: A Victorian major prophet. Part 2: Achievements outside his drama. Part 3: Shaw and the European revolution in drama. Part 4: The Victorian dramatist.

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  7. Virginia Woolf: A New Kind of Novelist (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 40, 43 min.

    An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. In Part 1 Professor Brooks treats the writer’s special gifts in this literary genre, and her vision of experience. In Part 2 he considers Virginia Woolf’s...

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  8. Goethe As Scientist (1975 Video)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    David R Clark
    Subject
    Science
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. b&w. 37 min.

    Professor Heller stresses the dangers of modern scientific thinking, and gives evidence that they were foreseen by Goethe. Professor Wells shows how many scientists would reply. Among Goethe’s ideas...

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  9. T S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’: A Poem of Hope (1973 Audio)

    Director
    N.C. Collins
    Producer
    N.C. Collins
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 60 min.

    Professor Harold Brooks questions those views which see Eliot’s poem as one of despair and horror. He indicates the three main planes on which Eliot handles his criticism of modern society, and takes the...

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  10. Mankind (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Martin Hayden
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION (possibly NFTVA), Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 64 min.

    A recording of a production by the London University Dramatic society of the morality play ‘Mankind’, which was written around 1475. It is the earliest surviving ‘interlude’, showing evidence of...

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