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  1. Breathing in Science Fiction (2016)

    Subject
    Literature; Science

    From Darth Vader’s laboured respiration, to the divers gasping for air in James Cameron’s The Abyss, the sounds of breathing in science fiction are not only memorable, they also draw attention to the act...

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  2. Decline of British Fiction, The

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Patrica Waugh and Jennifer Hodgson discuss their motivations for writing their article ‘On the Exaggerated Reports of a Decline in British Fiction,' published in The White Review arts journal. In this...

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  3. Angela Carter with Adam Mars Jones (1985)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Adam Mars Jones discusses with Angela Carter her novel ‘Nights at the Circus’ and her views on fiction and fantasy. Angela Carter reads an extract from the novel.

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  4. Margaret Thatcher and Pornography

    Subject
    English language and literature; Politics & government

    This podcast explores why 1980s British fiction turned to pornography in order to explore Thatcherism’s contradictions, focusing on Martin Amis’ ‘Money: A Suicide Note’ (1984) and Alan...

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  5. Edith Wharton: The Sense of Harmony (2014)

    Director
    Elizabeth Lennard
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 mins), $14.95

    Documentary. Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale and to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Best known for novels such as The Age of Innocence, The House of...

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  6. Useful Life, A (2014)

    Director
    Federico Veiroj
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 67 minutes), £9.99

    Fiction film about a film-programmer who is forced to change his way of life when the cinémathèque where he works is closed down. The character of Jorge is played by real-life film critic Jorge Jellinek.

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  7. Penelope Lively (1985)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 42 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Penelope Lively in conversation with Nicholas Bagnall at the ICA discusses: the pleasures of fiction; characters as composites of the self; creating male characters; creating evil characters; writer’s block.

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  8. Doris Lessing (2012)

    Subject
    Literature; Women’s studies

    A short podcast looking at the life and career of writer Doris Lessing, a Nobel laureate who has been praised for her ability to inhabit different fictional worlds. Part of The New Elizabethans, a series...

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  9. Real Little Dorrit, The: Charles Dickens and Debtors Prisons

    David Thomas examines the reality behind Charles Dickens’ fiction, using records from the National Archives as he explains what Victorian debtors’ prisons were really like and how accurate Dickens’...

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  10. William McIlvanney: Living with Words

    Director
    Maurice O’Brien
    Producer
    Gill Parry; William McIlvanney
    Subject
    Literature

    Portrait of the Scottish writer William McIlvanney, one of Scotland’s most accomplished writers, and author of books such as ‘Docherty’ and and the Laidlaw series, which inspired later writers of...

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