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Archive Pioneers: Saviours of Sound at the BBC (2010)

Subject

History; Media studies; Technology

The BBC was nearly ten years old when it installed its first recording machine, but tapes and discs soon began to pile up in Broadcasting House. Through broadcasts, internal BBC interviews and recordings...

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Abstraction (1984 Multimedia)

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette.

The history of abstract art is usually told in negative terms, as a development away from representation and meaning and away from all the conventions of subject and communication that had served art and its...

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Looking into Paintings (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 6 x 25 min.

Part 1 investigates how paintings have been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages, beginning with Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’. Shows that we have expectations about paintings and painters based on...

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Dread, Beat an’ Blood (1980)

aka: Dread, Beat and Blood

Director

Franco Rosso

Producer

Franco Rosso

Subject

Literature; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (45 minutes), £50.00

Profile of Linton Kwesi Johnson whose poetry is rooted very strongly in feelings of marginalisation and alienation found within urban black populations in the UK. Johnson, born in Jamaica in 1952, has...

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Word of Mouth (1998)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Hire, VHS (PAL, 10 x 25 minutes), £15.00 each

A 10-part poetry night club series hosted by John Hegley with contributions from some of the greatest poets from around the world. Shown on Border Television in 1990.

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