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Deeds for the Day

Date released

11 Dec 1939

Series name

Pathetone Weekly

Issue no

506

NoS ID

124404

Story no

2 / 5

Extras

1 film clip

The Boy Scouts of the Netherlands are doing their good deed for the day. Besides sandbagging and helping the Red Cross, these fine lads act as runners for the organisation that distributes cigarettes and...

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Maya Angelou (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

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

Maya Angelou is interviewed at the ICA and talks about writing through the black experience; the human spirit in adversity; prose and poetry readings

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Shakespeare’s Tragedies (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 40

Series

Hardcore Literature

Audio podcast book club hosted by Benjamin McEvoy. This edition provides a general introduction to Shakespeare scholarship and his tragedies.

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Harold Pinter gains literature award (1995)

Genre

Interview

Harold Pinter, playwright, has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, friend and colleague Salman Rushdie says a major literature honour in Pinter’s own country was...

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William Barnes friends Interview; Literature in Dorset - Reel 2 - nd [1975-1986]

Track 1- Friends of William Barnes in conversation talking about his life and writings. Born February 22, 1801 and died on October 7, 1886. Readings of his poems. Track 2- An interview with Sue Ashby, a...

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Cork In Red Bottle

Date released

18 Jun 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/49

NoS ID

112635

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Two miles off the Chinese Mainland Formosa propaganda troops bombard Red China with balloon-borne gifts and literature.

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from the novel Daisy Miller by Henry James, tells of the confused courtship of an American girl in Rome. Continuation and to be continued. Female narrator not identified

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Frank Muir on The Oxford Book of Humourous Prose (1990)

Genre

Interview

Lesley Judd interviews on the Artbeat programme comedy writer and television personality Frank Muir as his new book The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose is to be published next week. On the book, English...

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Portrait of Jane Austen (1985)

Genre

Discussion; Special

Conversation between Jane Austen biographer Lord David Cecil and Sean Street, recorded at Lord Cecil’s Cranborne home.

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Harold Pinter on being awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature (1995)

Genre

Interview

Playwright and writer Harold Pinter has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, Pinter is reticent over his writing qualities. Interviewer not heard.

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