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Nobel Winners

Date released

26 Oct 1967

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2003A

NoS ID

027099

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Nobel Winners. DESCRIPTION: Among the winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes, Senor Miguel Asturias from Guatemala, winner of the Prize for Literature. One of the three who share the...

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Maya Angelou (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Maya Angelou is interviewed at the ICA and talks about writing through the black experience; the human spirit in adversity; prose and poetry readings

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Living Will: The Legacy of William Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of an audio visual presentation by American linguist Dr Richard Lederer on Shakespeare’s contributions to the English language.

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from the novel Daisy Miller by Henry James, tells of the confused courtship of an American girl in Rome. Continuation and to be continued. Female narrator not identified

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from Daisy Miller, Henry James’s 1878 novella. In the story Daisy Miller portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl, who is very beautiful, by Winterbourne, a compatriot with...

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Denis Quilley on his theatre directorial debut (1988)

Genre

Interview

British actor Denis Quilley talks about his directorial debut- Special Occasions by Bernard Slade at the Viceroy Pub theatre in Swiss Cottage, London and the formation of NAUK - a group formed to establish a...

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Daisy Miller (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Concluding episode of reading of Henry James’ novella Daisy Miller, which describes the pursuit in Switzerland and Italy of the American Daisy by her compatriot Winterbourne. Episode covers their meeting...

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Salman Rushdie fatwa (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview

Paul Woodley reports on Salman Rushdie’s decision not to go on an American book promotion tour after having a price put on his head by Muslim leaders over the blasphemy to Islam in his book The Satanic...

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Wired for Books: Toni Morrison (1987)

Subject

Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, The Song of Solomon, Jazz, and Paradise, Toni Morrison talks about her early career, why every writer needs an editor, why she...

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Wired for Books: Jane Smiley (1989)

Subject

Literature

Jane Smiley, author of Horse Heaven, Moo, and A Thousand Acres, talks to Don Swaim in 1989 about writing a book for ten years, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaching writing, and her novel, The Greenlanders.

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