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  1. Greatest Paper in the World, The (1984 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Fleming
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

    Surveys the history of ‘The Times’ from the early influential editors to the strike in the late 1970s. The second half of the programme concentrates on Rupert Murdoch’s policies in running a paper and...

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  2. Marriage of Figaro, The (Ou) (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Consists of three scenes from Beaumarchais’ play ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and the same scenes from Mozart’s opera: Act V, part of Figaro’s monologue and part of Figaro’s aria; Act III, the duet...

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  3. Santa Maria Dei Miracoli, Venice (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice built between 1481 and 1489 to the designs of Pietro Lombardo. The church enshrines the miraculous image of the ‘Virgin and Child’, a painting by...

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  4. Florence. Part 1 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Examines the complex relationship between medieval and Renaissance Florence. Looks at a number of medieval buildings in Florence, including the Palazzo Vecchio, the Baptistery and San Miniato, and shows how...

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  5. Florence. Part 2 (1986 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Examines a city block in the centre of Florence, which consists principally of domestic buildings, dominated by the Palace of the Guelf Party (14th-16th century). These include a medieval tower-house, the...

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  6. Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (1969 Video)

    Director
    Irving Lerner
    Producer
    Philip Yordan
    Subject
    Drama; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 88 minutes), £19.99

    Film version of the Peter Shaffer play recounting the Spanish conquest of Peru, when 167 conquistadors led by Pisarro killed 7000 of the Inca’s god-king Atahualpa’s army of 80,000 in a single battle. In...

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  7. Newtonians, The (1992 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the influence of Newton on scientific thinking in the 18th century, and the rise of what became known as Newtonianism. Discusses ‘Principia Mathematica’ and ‘Optics’, which gave rise to the...

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  8. English Landscape Garden, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Explores the garden of Rousham House, Oxfordshire, designed by William Kent. Gardens in the late 17th century had been formal in design, in imitation of French examples such as Versailles. In the early 18th...

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  9. Scotland in the Enlightenment (1993 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Architecture; Art
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at buildings and paintings of 18th-century Scotland and discusses them in the context of the society, politics and intellectual currents of the time, particularly in relation to the Enlightenment....

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  10. Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

    Director
    Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson
    Producer
    Stephen Frears
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

    This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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