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Van Gogh - A New Way of Seeing (2015)

aka: Vicent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing

Director

David Bickerstaff

Producer

Phil Grabsky

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 93 minutes), £14.99

The film marks both a major re-showing of the Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum collection and a celebration of the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh’s death. Specially invited guests, including world-renowned...

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How Old Media Are Using New Media (2011)

Subject

Media studies

Nowadays virtually everything appears on Twitter first, which is really challenging for the mainstream media. In this audio recording of a lecture given at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism,...

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Science of Crime, The (2011)

Subject

Science

A 13-part series of 50-minute programmes focussing on the history of forensic science, from its early introduction to the latest cutting-edge techniques. Each episode looks at a specific method and the...

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Experiments in the Revival of Organisms (1940)

Director

D. I. Yashin

Subject

Biology; Science

Controviersial Soviet medical film showing Dr Sergei S. Bryukhonenko using mechanical resuscitation techniques to induce clinical death in a dog which is then revived. Part of the film shows a seemingly...

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Harper Audio: Dylan Thomas

Subject

English language and literature

A selection of the HarperCollins audio collections can now be heard on the Internet Town Hall. This presents the Dylan Thomas reading a selection of his poetry including ‘No Sun Shines’, ‘The Hand...

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Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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Bloody History of Communism 1 and 2, The (2006)

Subject

Philosophy; Politics & government; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Two programmes from the series based on the works of the Turkish author and thinker Harun Yahya. The film promotes the view that Communism was a bloody ideology which promised equality and justice, but which...

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Stevie Smith - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Extracts from a radio interview with the British poet and novelist Stevie Smith. Described as one of the most original poetic voices to emerge from the thirties, Stevie Smith’s eccentric, mischievous,...

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The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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Turing’s Test (2009)

Director

Mike Heath; Neil Gardner

Subject

Drama; Information technology; Social Studies

A fictionalised account of the final moments in the life of Alan Turing, in the first collaboration of its kind between a national newspaper (The Independent) and an independent production company. The...

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