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  1. Vanity Fair (2018)

    Director
    James Strong
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (7 x 60 minutes), £24.99

    Thackeray’s literary classic is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story...

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  2. Man Who Speaks in Anagrams, The (1972 Television)

    Series
    Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    Producer
    Ian MacNaughton

    British television comedy series. This episode includes the sketch ‘The Man Who Speaks in Anagrams’. Part of the dialogue is as follows: Palin: And I believe you’re working on an anagram version of...

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  3. Dresser, The (1993 Radio)

    Series
    Monday Play, The
    Director
    David Blount

    Radio adaptation of a play written by Ronald Harwood which is based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. An actor-manager of the old school takes a Shakespearean company...

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  4. American Friends (1991 Film)

    Director
    Tristram Powell
    Producer
    Patrick Cassavetti; Steve Abbott

    Feature film adapted by Michael Palin from the travel diaries of his greatgrandfather. Francis Ashby, a fellow of Oxford College, falls in love with Elinor, an American girl of 17, while on a walking...

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  5. Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967)

    Subject
    Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 361 minutes), £29.99

    A madcap sketch show with a cult following, DO NOT... was a huge influence on television comedy. Written by and starring Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, with performances and additional material by...

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  6. Car Sick (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale (BBC), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BBC)

    Michael Palin, president of the pressure group Transport 2000, argues that we must completely rethink our approach to transport, since the present trend for more and more cars and roads cannot continue....

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  7. How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body (1970 Television)

    Series
    Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    Producer
    Ian MacNaughton

    British television comedy series. The episodes features a sketch which presents the first underwater production of Measure For Measure. Dubbed over an expanse of sea is muffled Shakespearean blank verse. The...

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  8. Frost on Sunday (1960)

    Subject
    Media studies; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 520 minutes), £10.82

    One of the triumvirate of Frost programmes that dominated ITV weekends in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Frost on Sunday concerned itself with the lighter end of the entertainment spectrum. Made at a time...

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  9. Roll out the Barrel: The British Pub on Film

    Subject
    Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 321 minutes), £15.99

    An eclectic mix of dramas, trade films, documentaries and newsreels, showing the changing face of the British pub from 1944 to 1982, exploring its role as a locus for community gathering, the exchange of...

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  10. Hamlet, Or, The Bogus Psychiatrists (1974 Television)

    Series
    Monty Python’s Flying Circus
    Director
    Ian MacNaughton

    British television comedy series. This episode includes a c5 minute sketch in which a large American car skids around a corner and stops at the side of the curb in a smart Harley Street-like location. Terry...

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