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Anthony Burgess: Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake (1973)

Director

John Musilli

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

Novelist and critic Anthony Burgess takes a freewheeling look at James Joyce’s great experimental novel "Finnegans Wake". Burgess has always been fascinated by Joyce’s final work: its idiosyncratic...

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Great Writers: Anthony Burgess

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 45 minutes), $19.99

British novelist and critic Anthony Burgess (1917-1993), was best known for his controversial novel, A Clockwork Orange (1962). He was born in Manchester and was educated at the University of Manchester. He...

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Wired for Books: Anthony Burgess (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Best known for his novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess talks about being told by his doctor in 1959 that he had a fatal brain tumor and only had a year to live. That was when Burgess became a...

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Prose Readings: Anthony Burgess

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotapes in which eminent writers and poets read their works and discuss ideas, influences and thoughts on life. On this tape Anthony Burgess reads extracts of his work.

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Harper Audio: Anthony Burgess’ ‘A Clockwork Orange’

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. Anthony Burgess reads from his cult classic, "A Clockwork Orange." This novel consists of a series of episodes...

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Anthony Burgess (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Anthony Burgess in conversation with A S Byatt at the ICA. He talks about: quarreling with the Catholic God; the influence of music on structure; the role of language in ‘A Clockwork Orange’ ; ‘Evil’...

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Making ‘Junk’ (1999 Video)

Subject

Drama; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £19.50 (inc. VAT +p&p)

A video-based teaching pack on Barry Purchese’s adaptation of ‘Junk’, the Melvin Burgess novel of teenage heroin addiction. Includes: interviews with Burgess, the production team and cast of...

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Clockwork Orange (1971 Video)

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Subject

English language and literature; Literature; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 131 minutes), £19.9 (WHV)9 £39.99 (CDA)

Kubrick’s controversial screen version of the novel by Anthony Burgess. A violent and bleak vision of the future. The DVD includes the illustrated screenplay containing 800 still images from A Clockwork...

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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) (1990)

Director

Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Producer

René Cleitman; Michael Seydoux

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 138 minutes), £19.99

Adaptation of the 19th-century play by Edmond Rostand based on the 17th-century Savinian Cyrano de Bergerac, who suffers when his love for cousin Roxanne remains unrequited. The French couplets are...

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Britons at War 3 (2001)

aka: Welcome to Britain, A

Subject

History; Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99 (inclusive)

A WELCOME TO BRITAIN was made to explain funny money, warm beer, driving on the wrong side of the road, and other British customs to apprehensive young GIs arriving in war-time Britain. Starring Burgess...

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