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Grand Isle (1991)

aka: Awakening, The

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 112 minutes), £40.00

A film adaptation of the novel ‘The Awakening’ by Kate Chopin. At the turn of the century in the southern USA, a woman feels unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood and has an affair with a younger man....

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Wired for Books: Raymond Carver (1983)

Subject

Literature

In this 1983 interview with Don Swaim, the short story writer and poet, Raymond Carver, talks about growing up in the Pacific Northwest, his writing life, and his struggle with alcoholism.

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Perfect Storm, The (2000)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £19.99

In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot...

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Hitch: A Portrait of a Black Leader As a Young Man (1972 Film)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A dramatised documentary which explores ghetto life as seen and felt inside Harlem, based on experiences of the Northside Centre for Child Development. Concerns a southern black adolescent boy’s reaction...

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Wired for Books: Maya Angelou (1987)

Subject

Literature

Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and The Heart of a Woman, tells how poetry cured her muteness, how she writes in the autobiographical and...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 35 minutes), £13.74

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in the New England seaport of Salem, Massachusetts. Steeped in the history of his Puritan forebears and at the same time a part of the astonishing development of the new American...

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Poetry in Motion (1982)

Director

Ron Mann

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), £17.86 (Amazon)

An unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry’s ancient oral tradition and an energetic...

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Face to Face: Maya Angelou (2011)

Subject

Literature

In this programme first broadcast in 1994, Jeremy Isaacs asks the black American writer Maya Angelou about her life, her writing and her hopes for the future. What unfolds is a frank and sometimes shocking...

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Author: The Jt Leroy Story (2016)

Director

Jeff Feuerzeig

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £9.99

Documentary about the truth behind the JT Leroy literary phenomenon. Leroy was a fictional persona created by writer Laura Albert and played by Albert’s sister-in-law, Savannah Knoop. In 2006, The New York...

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Joseph Heller - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with Joseph Heller, In the first, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s WOMAN’S HOUR on 27/5/1980, Joseph Heller talks about: what the term Catch 22 means 0 min 41;...

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