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Ian McKellen - Diary of a Year (1985 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Kim Evans

Producer

Kim Evans

Television arts documentary. When Ian McKellen joined the National Theatre in 1984, he was asked by The South Bank Show to keep an audiotape diary of his experiences as an actor over the next twelve months....

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Royal Shakespeare Company, The (2009 Video)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Naomi Wright

Producer

Jonathan Levi

Anthology arts series. In this final edition of The South Bank Show presenter Melvyn Bragg goes behind the scenes at the Royal Shakespeare Company as it embarks on an ambitious programme of work inspired by...

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Studying Blake’s Songs (2005)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £9.95

A CD-ROM and book package providing a route through William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’, focusing on key poems and drawing connections across the collection. CD ROM for interactive...

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Building Site Show Down

Date released

13 Oct 1958

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

58/82

NoS ID

108362

Story no

3 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

In London work resumes on the vast South Bank site.

News on Screen Cinema news Digitised Documents Online Moving image

Annie Leibovitz (1993)

Director

Rebecca Frayn

Producer

Belinda Allen

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 51 minutes), £14.95

The American photographer Annie Leibovitz first attracted attention for her work while still a student in the late 1960s. Her photojournalism came to define the style of Rolling Stone magazine, the cult...

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Preparing to Perform Shakespeare (1984 Television, Video)

aka: Word of Mouth

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Peter Walker

Producer

Andrew Snell

A masterclass on speaking and performing Shakespeare introduced by Trevor Nunn and led by John Barton who works with Royal Shakespeare Company actors Alan Howard, Michael Pennington, David Suchet, Ian...

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Isle is Full of Noises, The (1985 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Producer

Jill Freeman

Anthology arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg. A documentary on electronic music. The programme also promotes a specially commissioned piece by Tim Souster based on Caliban’s speech.

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Graham Sutherland (1979 Film)

Director

Geoff Dunlop

Producer

Geoff Dunlop

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Sutherland outlines the major developments in his art, his early enthusiasm for engraving and the influence of Samuel Palmer; his response to the landscape of Pembrokeshire in the 1930s and the reasons for...

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South Bank Show: Vol.1: Ken Russell (2012)

Director

Ken Russell

Subject

Film studies; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 500 minutes), £29.99

Compilation of the eight films made by Ken Russell between 1983 and 2002 for The South Bank Show, on Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, Elgar, a portrait of the widows of four British composers, a found-footage...

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Christian Boltanski (1994 Video)

Director

Gerald Fox

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £14.99 (inclusive)

The French artist Christian Boltanski (b.1944) is acclaimed for his installations, which often combine an exploration of his own biography wity the European legacy of the Holocaust. The film presents a...

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