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A WALK IN THE NEWS

Date released

May 1963

Series name

Mining Review 16th Year

Issue no

9

NoS ID

346208

Story no

3 / 3

BFI synopsis: Ewan MacColl sings the story of Les Weightman, a machine operator at Denby Hall Colliery, who took up the challenge to walk 30 miles in 7 hours. Plus the coverage of the story by the "Coal...

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Hebrew Script, The (1976 Film)

Subject

Languages

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Traces the development of written language from hieroglyphics and cuneiform more than 4000 years ago. Explains the concepts and symbolism on which individual characters were based. Shows the changes in...

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Mi-Ma Ossim Tragedia (1983 Radio)

aka: On Writing Tragedies

A series of radio interviews on writing tragedies, moderated by Benny Hendel, and broadcast by the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA). In this episode Professor Avraham Oz talks about Shakespeare’s...

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Media Screen Roundup - November 2015

Date

9 Dec 2015, 11:52

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. A special issue of Word and Image on...

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In the Making: The Calligrapher (1980 Film)

Producer

Jane Coles

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Calligrapher Anne Hechler talks about the pleasures of using writing as an expressive medium and of triying to match the style to the content of a phrase or poem. She is seen at work in her house in Bath...

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Partners in Literacy (1989 Video)

Subject

Education

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min.

Based on the Cambridge Literacy Project, which sets up a partnership between parents, support services and class teachers to help children with reading and writing problems. The video shows in short segments...

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Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making: The Spoken Word (2008)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 139 minutes), £15.50

This double CD draws on the broadcasts Ted Hughes made for schools, particularly the highly praised LISTENING AND WRITING series, later published as ‘Poetry in the Making’, in which Hughes aimed to...

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Senior English II: The Merchant of Venice (1941 Radio)

Series

For the Schools: Good Writing

Schools radio broadcast. The 2-part programme in the series ‘Good Writing’ is comprised of dramatic readings from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, focusing on the casket scenes and the trial...

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Robert Graves: The Spoken Word (2009)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 68 minutes), £10.00

Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...

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Macbeth in the Studio (1941 Radio)

Series

For the Schools: Good Writing

Producer

Douglas Allen

Schools radio broadcast. The 2-part programme in the series Good Writing is introduced by Douglas R. Alkin. The producer and the actors discuss the theme and characters of the play. The second episode...

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