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Homage to BP - Scouts VC

Date released

4 Mar 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1448

NoS ID

021535

Story no

6 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Homage to Baden Powell. DESCRIPTION: 3,500 Boy Scouts and Girl Guides rallied at Nyeri, in Kenya to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Lord Baden-Powell. The salute was taken by...

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Funeral of train robber Charlie Wilson (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Tribute; Vox pop

Gareth Furby reports on the South London funeral of train robber Charlie Wilson, who was shot dead last month at his Spanish villa. Four of the former train gang members joined 150 mourners for the service...

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Gill Pyrah programme (1985)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; Jingle; News bulletin; Parliamentary debate; Press conference; Speech; Trailer

Gill Pyrah interviews ornithologist and conservationist, Sir Peter Scott, following the release of his latest volume of diaries, Travel Diaries of a Naturalist. The programme also contains the afternoon’s...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1948 Radio)

Producer

Archie Campbell

Radio version of the film about RAF pilot (and poet, lunatic and lover) Peter Carter who unwittingly cheats death when he survives bailing out of his plane without a parachute. Originally written and...

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Horse Ploughing

Date released

25 Oct 1973

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2316A

NoS ID

030101

Story no

4 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Horse Ploughing. DESCRIPTION: The Southern Counties Horse Ploughing Match at Shackleford, near Guildford, Surrey. SHOTLIST: GV plough horses lined up for judging. SV judges. LSV Dr...

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Shakespeare’s Starling (2019 Radio)

Producer

Zoë Comyns

Radio documentary by Zoë Comyns that explores the references to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s plays and contrasts this with the devastation that ensued following the introduction of Starlings in to...

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Twelfth Night (1974 Television)

Series

Play of the Month

Director

David Giles

Producer

Cedric Messina

Televised adaptation of the play set in the Regency period. Directed by David Giles and shot on location at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England. With Charles Gray and Janet Suzman.

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Decision makers (1981)

Genre

Documentary; Election coverage; Music; Speech

Decision Makers. A four-part look back at a year of political change in Westminster (1981), presented by Peter Spencer. Foci include the Labour Party’s new rules for choosing a new leader (excerpts of...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Henry IV. Part 1 (1992 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1991 production of Henry IV. Part 1. Directed by Adrian Noble with Robert Stephens as Falstaff and Michael Maloney as...

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