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Patrick Sargent: A Potter’s Art (1998 Multimedia)

Subject

Crafts

Distribution

Sale, 30 slides. col., 2000 sale: £38.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

An account of the life and work of British studio potter Patrick Sargent, whose pots were distinctive for their boldness of form and their spectacular fired surfaces. Includes quotations taken from personal...

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Poetry of W.H. Auden, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotapes in which eminent writers and poets read their works and discuss ideas, influences and thoughts on life. On this tape W.H. Auden speaks about his poetry

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Carlo Levi Stopped Here (1992 Video)

Director

Virginia Heath

Producer

Tariq Ali

Distribution

Sale (Clips and Footage), Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min.

Considers the relationship between the industrialised north of Italy and the underdeveloped south, as expressed in the paintings of Carlo Levi, author of ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’.

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Wired for Books: Margaret Atwood (1986)

Subject

Literature

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Cats’ Eye, talks to Don Swaim in 1986 about growing up in the Canadian forests, her novels, her thoughts about religion and human rights, and why she...

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Seed of Sarah (1998 Video)

Director

Andrea Weiss

Subject

History

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £?

Part journey film and part photographic collage, the film traces the memories of Hungarian Holocaust survivor and author Judith Magyar Isaacson, following her from her childhood in Kaposvar to her liberation...

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Communicating Climate Change (2016)

Subject

Energy; Environmental science

Author and expert Chris Shaw discusses how climate change is communicated and why it is vital that there is more public engagement with the subject. Shaw works at Climate Outreach, formerly COIN, a European...

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Qui était Kafka? (2007)

aka: Who was Kafka?

Director

Richard Dindo

Subject

Literature

Distribution

DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 96 minutes), 14.94 Euros

Documentarian Richard Dindo presents an impressionistic view of the life of Franz Kafka, consisting of actors presenting the author’s personal writings as if they were documentary interviews, set against a...

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Turbulent Landscapes: Chico Buarque’s Brazil (1992 Video)

Director

Alex Anderson

Producer

Tariq Ali

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

Chico Buarque is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, who has also written for the theatre and cinema and is the author of a best-selling novel. Here he talks and sings about carnival in Rio, football, and his novel.

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To Kill a Mockingbird (2002)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.90

Filmed on location in Monroeville, Alabama, the real-life setting for the fictional Maycomb in Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ and the author’s home town. The video contains interviews...

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Making of a Holy City, The (2012)

Subject

History; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.92

Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the history of Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the world, in this three-part BBC documentary series.

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