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Part 4: Concentrates on the General Election of June 1983, seen from behind the scenes at Liberal and SDP headquarters and around the country with the leaders.
NBC radio variety show hosted by Bing Crosby. In this edition John Barrymore gives a dramatic reading of a speech from Hamlet (probably the ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy). Other guests were Don Wilson,...
Projecting Britain explores a film genre neglected for decades: the cinemagazine. Watched by millions, both in Britain and abroad, these fascinating 'screen magazines' reflected all aspects of popular...
Made-for-television film. Acclaimed recreation of the meeting between actress Coral Browne and British spy and defector Guy Burgess, in Moscow in 1958. The initial meeting took place in a theatre, where...
Radio play by Dudley Evans broadcast in the ‘Saturday Matinee’ slot. The list of dramatis personae and title of this radio drama suggest that it is based on Shakespeare’s tragedy.
Professor Glynne Wickham looks at the latest proposals to reconstruct Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre near its original site in Southwark, examining the historical evidence for the construction of theatres in...
The Fall of the House of Usher. GB. 2013. Blu-ray. 85 minutes + 90 minutes extras. £13.99 About the reviewer: Andrew Ormsby is the BUFVC Information Officer and is also Content Co-ordinator on the...
This is a collection of some of key books and articles on British newsreels and cinemagazines. The BUFVC publications can be ordered here. A fuller bibliography that includes essays, newspaper articles,...
Projecting Britain: The Guide to British Cinemagazines Projecting Britain explores a film genre neglected for decades: the cinemagazine. Watched by millions, both in Britain and abroad, these fascinating...
Linda Kaye provides a guided tour of Roundabout (http://bufvc.ac.uk/roundabout), the Technicolor cinemagazine that in the 1960s and 70s helped the government promote Britain as a progressive world leader to...