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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. 2: Disruption (1978-1989) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 861 minutes), £69.99

This set brings together all of the surviving stand-alone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1978-1989, including ‘Baal’ (starring David Bowie), ‘Contact’, ‘Road’ and...

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Romeo and Juliet (2016 Video)

Director

Alan Paul

Video recording of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2016 contemporary dress staging of Romeo and Juliet directed by Alan Paul with Andrew Veenstra and Ayana Workman in the title roles.

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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Penda’s Fen (1974)

Director

Alan Clarke

Producer

David Rose

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire and set to the music of Edward Elgar, Penda’s Fen tells the story of Stephen, a vicar’s son, and his sexual awakening via a series of visions and mystical...

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Classic Politics (2000 Audio)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Compact Disc. 58 min., 2001 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

Well-known politicians read excerpts from political classics that inspired them during their careers. Writers include Burke, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Disraeli, Bertrand Russell, J S Mill, Macchiavelli,...

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Plays for Britain: The Complete Series (2013)

Director

Michael Apted; Jim Goddard; Leslie Blair; Peter Gill; Alan Clarke; Philip Saville

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 325 minutes), £19.99

Thames Television series which was first broadcast in the mid-1970s, featuring six contemporary plays by writers then at relatively early stages in their careers. Stephen Poliakoff’s HITTING TOWN is an...

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Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

Director

Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell

Subject

Drama; Education

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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Made in Britain (1983 Video)

Director

Alan Clarke

Producer

Margaret Matheson

Subject

Drama; Social welfare

Distribution

Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

David Leland’s play about unemplyment and racism. A teenage skinhead is determined to reject other people before they reject him, and the play traces his increasing confrontation with the authorities...

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £14.99

Bradford teenagers Rita and Sue regularly babysit for Bob and Michelle, whose comfortable suburban lifestyle contrasts with the girls’ bleak life on a council estate. One evening when Bob is taking them...

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Stratford-Upon-Avon (1968 Television)

aka: Lesson Fifty-Five

Series

English for You

Director

Gerhard Scheunert

Producer

Horst Bauer

Educational broadcast. This episode of the English language series ‘English for You’ focuses on William Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon. After having established that unlike Goethe and Schiller...

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