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Listen to Britain (1942 Film, Video)

Director

Humphrey Jennings; Stewart McAllister

Producer

Ian Dalrymple

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

'The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the roar of Spitfires and tanks, the noise of furnaces and factories, the march of miners and soldiers, music and songs...

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Alistair Cooke's 'Letter from America' archive now online

Date

31 Oct 2012, 16:37

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

Alistair Cooke's first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the...

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Listen to Britain 1 (1950 Video)

Subject

History; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 46 min., 2001 sale: £9.95 (inclusive)

Compilation video featuring 1) Humphrey Jennings’ classic wartime film ‘Listen to Britain’ (1941, 19 min): ‘The music of a people at war - the sound of life in Britain by night and day.' Records the...

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International Women’s Day Concert 2018 (2018)

aka: BBC Concert Orchestra and Jane Glover: International Women’s Day Concert

Subject

Music; Women’s studies

A group of academics spent 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, who range from an 18th-century Viennese child prodigy to an award-winning African-American symphonist. All...

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Internet: Pirates Under Attack (2009)

Subject

French studies; Information technology; Law; Technology

A television debate on the controversial French Creation and Content Bill to disconnect people caught downloading content illegally. Broadcast on France 24 on 10 March 2009, the day before it went before the...

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Hell on Earth (1931)

aka: Niemandsland

Director

Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff

Subject

History

The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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Oskar Fischinger Volume 2 (2002)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 38 minutes), £17.99

A compilation of Oskar Fischinger’s abstract, animated films consisting of MURATTI PRIVAT, WAX EXPERIMENTS, MUNCHEN-BERLIN WANDERUNG, STUDY NO. 5, STUDY NO. 9, STUDY NO. 12, KOMPOSITION IN BLAU, AMERICAN...

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Jack Firestein, Only a Bookseller (2009)

Subject

Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 55 minutes), £25.00

Jack Firestein was a bookseller with bookstalls outside the Camden Labour Centre, in Unity Theatre foyer and shops in the East End, Willesden and Soho. He was also a driver to Clive Jenkins, General...

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Penda’s Fen (1974)

Director

Alan Clarke

Producer

David Rose

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 89 minutes), £19.99

Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire and set to the music of Edward Elgar, Penda’s Fen tells the story of Stephen, a vicar’s son, and his sexual awakening via a series of visions and mystical...

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American Civil War the (3 Vols) (2000 Video)

Director

Ken Burns

Producer

Ken Burns

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 690 minutes), £49.99

Nine-part television series that took five years to produce. Features over 16,000 archive photographs, paintings, lithographs and contemporary newspaper articles as well as battlefield tours, newsreel...

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