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Bed (1995 Video)

Director

Steve Shill

Producer

Kevin Loader

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 60 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Jim Cartwright’s fantasy on old age and death is a surreal exploration of life and dreams set in old people’s home into which an ex-sea captain (Lionel Jeffries) dream that he joins the ‘sleep club’...

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Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)

aka: Gangster Show, The: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (105 minutes), research viewing only

A 1972 BBC production of the Brecht play in which Arturo Ui (a Hitler look-alike) rises to prominence in mobster-ruled Chicago. Only available for individual or group research viewing on BFI premises

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Buddy (1986 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 5 x 25 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

A drama adapted by Nigel Hinten from his novel ‘Buddy’, which portrays the struggles of a 14-year-old boy whose mother has walked out and whose ageing teddy boy father (Roger Daltrey) has never grown up....

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Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (337 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £125.00 BBC Learning)

A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...

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Boys from the Blackstuff (Episodes 1-5) (1982 Video)

Director

Philip Saville

Producer

Michael Wearing

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 308 minutes), £15.99

A drama series made for television illustrating the indignities of unemployment and its inherent evils, skillfully blending black farce and tragedy. The story centres around a gang of tarmac layers from...

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Barnaby Rudge (1960)

Director

Barry Morris

Subject

Drama; English language and literature

Thirteen episode BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens’ historical novel set amidst the Gordon Riots of 1780. (780 minutes)

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Our Mutual Friend (1958) (2016)

Director

Derek Tayler

Subject

English language and literature

1958 television adaptation, in twelve parts, of Dickens’ last completed novel. Originally broadcast between 7th November 1958 and 23rd January 1959.

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Ubu Roi (1977)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £200.00

This programme explains how the anarchic political parody by Alfred Jarry employs many non-realistic theatrical conventions and exemplifies modern, expressionistic drama. It includes a condensed version of...

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Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The (1974 Film)

Director

John Mackenzie

Producer

Graeme McDonald

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 90 minutes), £16.99

The travelling theatre company 7.84 gives a polemical account of the history of Scotland from the Highland Clearances to the effects of the development of the North Sea oilfield. Intercuts film of a stage...

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Duchess of Malfi, The (1972 Video)

Director

James MacTaggart

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £195.00

Webster’s Jacobean tragedy with Eileen Atkins at the Duchess and Charles Kay as Bosola.

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