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Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999 Audio)

aka: Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 3

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 160 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A specially compiled collection including interviews and ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts, charting the career of journalist Alistair Cooke. Introduced by Nick Clarke, Cooke’s biographer.

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Radio Gallery: Programme 6 - Propaganda (2006)

Subject

History; Media studies

This exhibition explores the uses of the radio as a tool for propaganda during times of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ war. It begins in World War II with a compilation of German and Italian propaganda aimed at...

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Joseph Heller - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with Joseph Heller, In the first, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s WOMAN’S HOUR on 27/5/1980, Joseph Heller talks about: what the term Catch 22 means 0 min 41;...

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Iris Murdoch - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Iris Murdoch, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s NOW READ ON on 27/10/1971. Iris Murdoch talks to Antonia Byatt about: when she started writing, the well told story...

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Seamus Heaney- BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with the Irish poet, critic and translator Seamus Heaney. In the first interview, broadcast in the Radio 4 serIes TURNING POINTS on 15/11/1988, Seamus Heaney talks to...

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Virginia Woolf - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a BBC radio programme, WORDS FAIL ME, broadcast on 29/5/1927, in which Virginia Woolf gives a eulogy to words.

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Clockwork Radio (1995 Video)

Producer

John Groom

Subject

Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1997 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In 1992 British Inventor Trevor Baylis invented a clockwork radio as a response to a need for spreading healthcare information in Africa. Traces the story of his invention from rejection to mass production...

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John Updike Radio Files, The (2014)

Subject

Literature

A conversation with John Updike’s biographer, Adam Begley, recorded for a Radio Open Source podcast. Begley talks about Updike’s Pennsylvania boyhood, his wives and lovers north of Boston, his children,...

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Samuel Beckett: Works for Radio (2006)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 235 minutes), £39.95

Released to mark the centenary of the birth of Samuel Beckett [1906-1989], this set of four CDs collects the five works that Beckett created expressly for the radio: All That Fall, Embers, Words and Music,...

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Mapping the Universe (2002)

Subject

Astronomy

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 25 minutes), £29.95

Explores the study of space through the use of optical radio telescopes, satellites and computer modelling. Shows how astronomers use different language technologies to develop a picture of the universe....

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