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Bridging the Gap: Future (2009)

Subject

Film studies; Social Studies

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 PAL, 78 minutes), Free

Eight new directors and films on the theme of "Future" commissioned by Scottish Documentary Institute. PETER IN RADIOLAND: A carefully observed study of the director’s father Peter, who stubbornly remains...

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King of Snow (1977 Radio)

Series

Vivat Rex

Director

Martin Jenkins (2)

Producer

Martin Jenkins (2)

Episode 6 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II,...

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IlÉ AiyÉ (The House of Life) (2004)

aka: House of Life, The

Director

David Byrne

Subject

Anthropology; Media studies; Music; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (50 minutes), £17.99

An impressionistic documentary by David Byrne (of Talking Heads) on Candomblé, the Brazilian spirit cult of the Bahia region. This "docu-poem" eschews all traditional documentary techniques and evokes the...

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Richard III (1992 Video)

Director

Richard Eyre

Video recording using three cameras of a performance of Richard III at the Lyttleton Theatre in the Royal National Theatre, London, on 30 April 1992, with Ian McKellen as Richard. Directed by Richard Eyre...

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Tragedy of King Richard II, The (1970 Television)

aka: Richard II

Director

Toby Robertson

Producer

Mark Shivas

Television presentation of the Prospect Theatre Company’s production of the play. A thoughtful and successful attempt to transfer a popular stage production to the televison screen. Ian McKellen gives a...

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Julius Caesar (1963 Television)

Series

For Schools

Producer

Dorothea Brooking

BBC schools programme production of the play broadcast in four episodes. This episode is introduced by James Grout, who discusses the production with the principal actors before the play begins. With Gerald...

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Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

Director

André Singer

Producer

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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Talking Heads (Complete) (1988)

Director

Alan Bennett; Stuart Burge; Giles Foster; Tristram Powell

Producer

Innes Lloyd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 428 minutes), £24.99

Twelve short monologues written by Alan Bennett. 1) A CHIP IN THE SUGAR (dir. Stuart Burge): Alan Bennett as a middle-aged man who lives with his mother, and finds her taking up with an old flame; 2) A CREAM...

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Story of English, The (1998 Video)

Producer

Pater Dale; Vivian Ducat

1: The diversity of ‘varieties’ of English in use throughout the world including public school/Oxbridge, post-colonial in India and Africa, feminist, high-tech, American, Pacific Basin, gay, academic....

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Victims (1977 Radio)

Series

Vivat Rex

Director

Gerry Jones

Producer

Gerry Jones

Episode 7 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reigns of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Richard II...

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