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Poets and People (3 Parts) (1987 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30, 45, 45 min.

Part 1: Douglas Dunn reads his poems to a mixed-age audience at a community school on a deprived housing estate outside Edinburgh. An account of Dunn’s background is illustrated by stills of places...

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Myth of the BBC?

Date

18 Apr 2017, 11:32

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

Is the BBC truly an impartial public broadcaster? Dr Tom Mills, author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, charts a brief history of perceived political bias at the Corporation. About the Author: Dr Tom...

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Tony Benn: Speaking Up in Parliament (1994 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1996 sale: £11.00 (+VAT +p&p) (BUFVC)

Extracts from speeches made in in the House of Commons by Tony Benn, Socialist MP for Chesterfield. Topics include pit closures (21 Oct 92), fox hunting (14 Feb 92), nuclear weapons (14 Jan 92), the...

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Time Team: The New Town of a Norman Prince (1994 Video)

aka: New Town of a Norman Prince, The

Director

Graham Dixon

Producer

Tim Taylor

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A oak beam and some stone arches link a house in Much Wenlock in Shropshire to the development of the new town 800 years earlier. The discovery of evidence of a 13th-century aisled hall, identification of...

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Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, The (1987 Video)

Subject

Architecture

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes), £75.00

In 3 parts: 1) Patrick Hannay discusses the concept and design of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, designed by Norman Foster, with Chris Seddon of Foster Associates; 2) Patrick Hannay talks about the...

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Endgame, By Samuel Beckett (1991 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 92 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A performance of Samuel Beckett’s ‘Endgame’, a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett’s first play ‘Waiting for Godot’ in which nothing happens twice. It is not a play about chess,...

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Big Flame, The (1969 Video)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Politics & government

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 85 min.

Traces the progress of a strike in Loverpool’s docks following the Devlin Report, which advocated the abolition of casual labour. The workers take over Liverpool docks. The central figure is a...

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Ken Loach at the BBC (2011)

Director

Ken Loach

Producer

Tony Garnett

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 1100 minutes), £49.99

This six disc collection spans Ken Loach’s years at the BBC from 1965 - 1977, including films he made for the WEDNESDAY PLAY slot as well as his four-part period drama DAYS OF HOPE. The complete contents...

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Who? (1974)

Director

Jack Gold

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 93 minutes), £15.99

Adapted from the novel by science fiction writer Algis Budrys, WHO? is a cold-war thriller/sci-fi hybrid. An FBI agent is trying to determine the true identity of a top US physicist who was horrifically...

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Television: Images, Messages and Ideologies (1991 Video)

Producer

Jack Leathem

Subject

Media studies; Sociology

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 49 min., 1998 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Discusses the way ideology can be reflected through popular drama and examines the way ‘Eastenders’ reflects everyday life in Britain. Looks at the extent to which television can transmit ideological...

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