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Rape of Lucrece, And Other Poems, The (1961 Audio)

The Rape of Lucrece read by Richard Burton; The Phoenix and the Turtle and The Passionate Pilgrim are read by Edith Evans and Donald Wolfit.

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Venus and Adonis: A Lover’s Complaint (1962 Audio)

aka: Lover’s Complaint, A

Series

Caedmon Literary

Sound recording. Venus and Adonis read by Max Adrian and A Lover’s Complaint read by Claire Bloom.

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Margaret Tait: Selected Films 1952-1976 (2006)

Director

Margaret Tait

Subject

Film Studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £10.00

A compilation of 7 short films by the Orcadian filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait, a forerunner of the English experimental directors of the late 20th century.. Over the course of 36 years she produced over 30...

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Just an Illness (1989 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p) OU

Based on the ideas of Susan Sontag as described in her book ‘Illness as Metaphor’, the programme explores the impact of AIDS on contemporary society, comparing it to previous plagues which aroused...

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Krishna in Spring (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...

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Emily Dickinson (2004)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £13.74

By any standards a remarkable poet, the fact that she lived in an age when poets were supposed to be men and any ideas contrary to the norm were outrages in the eyes of society, Emily Dickinson’s work is...

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Raga (198 Video)

Subject

Anthropology; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Opens with Yehudi Menuhin playing a record of the morning raga ‘Ahira Bhairava’ and shows musicians playing the same raga in their city of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Shows how the complex raga system is...

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Frontlines Backyards (1997 Video)

Director

Andrew Ward

Producer

Andy Minnion; Lande Pratt; Andrew Ward

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 1998 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

Explores the the cultural politics of the CNER Frontlines Backyards conference held on 6-7 December 1996. Draws on interviews with conference presenters and comments from attendees, looking at some of the...

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Letter to the World (2010)

Director

Suzie Hanna

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 9 minutes), £15.00

Commissioned for the Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, Oxford, in 2010. The film is designed to interpret some of the poet’s tropes including her microscopic representation of the outdoors...

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Carrying the Elephant/This is Not My Nose (2005)

Subject

English language and literature; Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD), £12.99

A double-CD collection of prose-poems written and read by Michael Rosen.'Carrying the Elephant’ and ‘This is Not my Nose’ are both autobiographical in nature. The first of these extended sequences of...

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