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LUCKY STRIKE

Date released

Nov 1958

Series name

Mining Review 12th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

346021

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: Ernie, the electric calculator at Lytham, is set in operation by remote control from Ashington colliery for the monthly distribution of Premium Bond prizes. NCB Commentary - Blackpool. The...

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George Barker: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 72 minutes), £9.70

T.S. Eliot described George Barker as a genius, and W.B. Yeats compared his rhythmic invention to that of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Drawing primarily on previously unpublished BBC broadcasts spanning the years...

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Julius Caesar (1964 Radio)

Series

Best of Shakespeare, The

Director

George Rylands

Radio broadcast. Fifth in a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays. This episode showcases...

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Oscar update: The King's Speech In Newsreels

Date

28 Feb 2011, 12:08

Author

BUFVC-user34036

Post Type

Post

At the Oscars this year THE KING'S SPEECH was awarded the prize for best film, best director, best actor and best screenplay. Details of the night's awards can be accessed here. Director Tom Hooper’s film...

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Hamlet (Part 1) (1964 Radio)

Series

Best of Shakespeare, The

Radio broadcast. As part of a series of 26 weekly programmes "designed as an anthology of the best-known and best-loved speeches and scenes" from Shakespeare’s better known plays, this episode (15)...

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Englishman Abroad, An (1983 Television)

Director

John Schlesinger

Producer

Innes Lloyd

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...

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Second-Best Bed, The (1949 Radio)

aka: Usyless Discussion on Hamlet or Hamnet, A

Producer

Noel Iliff

Radio play arranged for broadcasting by John Keir Cross. The single-act play is based on the Shakespearean dialogue in Chapter 9: ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ of James Joyce’s Ulysses.

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JOHN BAMFORD, G.C.

Date released

May 1953

Series name

Mining Review 6th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

345785

Story no

1 / 4

BFI synopsis: story of the young miner hero awarded the George Cross at Buckingham Palace. He is seen on a visit to London with his family. NCB Commentary - Buckingham Palace, London. A misty spring...

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OVERHAUL

Date released

Apr 1952

Series name

Mining Review 5th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

345740

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: the Coal Board’s Lambton Engine Works, County Durham, repairing and building the Board’s rolling stock. NCB Commentary - This engine, and its train of wagons, is coming out of hospital....

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Richard III (2005 Film)

Director

Maximilian Day

Producer

Maximilian Day; Jamie Martin

Low-budget independent feature film produced by a Brighton-based film collective. The play is transferred to warring gang factions of a notorious contemporary Brighton housing project.

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