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Quality of Mercy from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ The (2007 Radio)

Series

Adventures in Poetry

Producer

Sara Davies

Third episode in a radio series exploring the "background, effect, and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems". Peggy Reynolds discusses the linguistic, legal and theological complexities of Portia’s...

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Passage to India, A (1984)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 157 mins), £15.99

David Lean’s Oscar-winning adaptation of EM Forster’s classic novel of the end of the British Raj, with Peggy Ashcroft as Mrs Moore, James Fox as Fielding and Victor Banerjee as Dr Aziz.

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Collectors’ Library of Ten Great Shakespeare Plays: Concise Acting Versions (1961 Audio)

`Concise acting versions’ of ten plays read by Richard Burton, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Anna Massey, Sarah Churchill, Michael Redgrave, Peter Finch, Peter O’Toole and others. The...

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Winter’s Tale, The (1965 Audio)

Director

Peter Wood

Complete performance directed by Peter Wood with John Gielgud as Leontes and Peggy Ashcroft as Paulina.

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London’s Famous Clubs and Cabarets: No. 1 - The Kit Kat Club

Date released

4 Feb 1926

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

244

NoS ID

331355

Story no

1 / 4

NoS Summary - Sophie Tucker’s Farewell to the Kit Kat Club and the turn given by Irving Berlin. British Pathe synopsis (Incomplete) - M/S of a group of bright young things at a table. "And here’s a...

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Pottery Ladies (4 Parts) (1985 Film, Video)

Director

Jenny Wilkes

Producer

Elizabeth Taylor Mead

Subject

Art; Design

Distribution

Film (16mm)

1: Describes the career of Charlotte Rhead who came from a famous family of designers and who perfected the technique of tube-lining. Mary Harper recalls her working days as a painter for Charlotte Rhead. 2:...

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Stratford’s Shakespeare (1985 Audio)

A history of performance at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford, commissioned to celebrate the RSC’s 25th anniversary. Features reminiscences by famous actors who have played there: James Dale, who...

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Virginia Woolf: A Portrait

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 3 cassettes), £11.00

Michael Holroyd talks to Derek Parker about Virginia Woolf’s life and work. Other contributors include her husband, Leonard Woolf, her sister Vanessa, and nephew Quentin Bell, who is also her biographer....

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Stratford-Upon-Avon (1968 Television)

aka: Lesson Fifty-Five

Series

English for You

Director

Gerhard Scheunert

Producer

Horst Bauer

Educational broadcast. This episode of the English language series ‘English for You’ focuses on William Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon. After having established that unlike Goethe and Schiller...

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All the World’s a Stage: A Collection of Shakespeare’s Speeches (1995 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

An anthology of Shakespearean speeches from the BBC Sound Archive. Romeo and Juliet (I iii) - Fay Compton; Hamlet (III i) - Michael Redgrave; Henry V (IV iii) - Richard Burton; King Lear (II iv) - Alec...

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