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The Elephant

Date released

1971

Series name

London Line

Issue no

337

NoS ID

326574

Story no

1 / 4

COI synopsis: A new definitive book on the elephant has just been published in London. London Line looks at the elephant’s chance of survival in today’s world.

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Tolpuddle Martyrs: Interactive DVD

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-ROM), £7.50

Narrated by Tony Robinson this three hour, 500+ page interactive book explains events, people and background to the Tolpuddle Martyrs’ story and the contribution they made to trade unionism. Actors play...

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Shakespeare: For All Time (2003 Multimedia, Video)

From the home of British Embassy Charge d’Affaires Tony Brenton, Professor Stanley Wells talks about his book Shakespeare For All Time, published by Oxford University Press. He is interviewed by Paul...

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Taking Liberties (2007)

Director

Chris Atkins

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £15.99

A shocking, polemical film that charts the destruction of basic liberties under 10 years of New Labour. Released to coincide with Tony Blair’s departure, the film and the book follow the stories of normal...

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Teaching Adults to Read (1977 Film, Video)

Director

Tony Othen

Subject

Education

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Based on Tom MacFarlane’s book of the same title, the film sets out to demonstrate the wide range of reading activities that can be used.

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Slade Women (1979 Film, Video)

Director

Tony Cash

Producer

Tony Cash

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Germaine Greer continues the investigation undertaken in her book ‘The Obstacle Race’ into the ‘absent history’ of women artists, and follows the careers of six women artists, contemporaries of...

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Battle for Orgreave, The (1985 Video)

Subject

Law; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

Attempts to analyse the events at Orgreave Coke Works in June 1985 when 95 miners were arrested and charged with riot and unlawful assembly. Stills, amateur film and eye witness accounts tell a different...

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Narrative (1987 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Umberto Eco suggests that all novels are a sort of detective story. To test the theory, argues Graham Martin, it is necessary to understand how a narrative works. A dramatised example of a scene from Chapter...

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Foretelling (1485), The (1983 Television)

Series

Blackadder, The

Director

Martin Shardlow

Producer

John Lloyd

Sitcom. Comedy series set in the Middle Ages featuring the exploits of self-serving Blackadder (Atkinson). Reversing history’s perceptions Richard is a kindly monarch and Henry Tudor a self-serving...

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Irony and Ambiguity (1984 Television)

Series

Playing Shakespeare

Director

John Carlow

Producer

Andrew Snell

Television documentary series. A nine-part series in which John Barton, associate director with the Royal Shakespeare Company, works with RSC actors analysing how Shakespeare’s text works examining the use...

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