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Being the Brontës

Director

Linda Sands

Producer

John Das

Subject

English language and literature

Martha Kearney is joined by author Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth by exploring the life and times of the author and her siblings Emily and...

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David Starkey’s the Six Wives of Henry VIII (2003)

aka: Six Wives of Henry VIII, The

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 195 minutes), £19.99

Historian David Starkey tells the stories of the women who married Henry VIII, revealing in intimate detail their experiences of sex, childbirth and the glamorous, dangerous life at court, including the...

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To Walk Invisible (2017)

Director

Sally Wainwright

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.99

Sally Wainwright writes and directs this one-off British television drama which follows the lives of renowned authors the Brontë sisters. Set in 1840s Yorkshire, sisters Anne (Charlie Murphy), Charlotte...

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Encounters Through Generations (2012)

Subject

Psychiatry; Psychology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £8.00

This project was set up to create a dialogue between old and new generations of psychoanalysts, and record them looking back over their professional careers. Two of these interviews are available for free,...

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Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, The (1983 Video)

Director

Murray Grigor

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Frank Lloyd Wright created over 430 buildings in his career. He designed in a manner appropriate to the building’s location and the climate of the district. Shows buildings at different times of the year...

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Brontës at the BBC, The

Producer

Rebecca Whyte

Subject

English language and literature; Television studies

A chronological account of the how the BBC has depicted the lives and works of the Brontë sisters over the past fifty years. Amongst the productions included are the 1956 version of ‘Jane Eyre’ with...

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Vinland Mystery (2011)

Director

William Pettigrew

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

DVD (29 minutes)

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good. Mentioned in Icelandic manuscripts and speculated about for...

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Plant Cell Biology (Music Videos) (2011)

Subject

Biology; Education

An original and entertaining series of four music videos put together from scientific microscopy movies creted by the Oxford Brookes Plant Cell Biology Group and music composed by the musicians Professor...

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Nation’s Health, The (2005)

Subject

History; Medical sciences; Social Studies

A six part series in which Jonathan Miller examines the development of the nation’s health since the end of the Second World War. Since the war the nation’s health has improved dramatically but the...

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