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The Royal Homecoming

Date released

15 May 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1691

NoS ID

040536

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

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

St Helena, where Napoleon was interned, is visited by Royal family on way home. Portsmouth gives civic reception. Prime Minister welcomes Royal Family at Waterloo before triumphal drive to Palace.

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Discovery of England’s Past, The (2003 Radio)

Series

Discovery of England, The

Producer

Matthew Dodd

Three-part radio series presented by Jonathan Bate. In the first episode Bate shows how Elizabethans under Queen Elizabeth presided over a flowering of literature and maps and ‘discovered England’. Bate...

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Orson Welles’ Julius Caesar (1999 Audio)

aka: Julius Caesar Caesar

Series

Mercury Text Records

Director

Orson Welles

A Mercury Theatre production. Stage directions and scenes not recorded are narrated by Welles. The Mercury Text recording makes no attempt to re-create the Broadway production. Also includes Maurice Evans...

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Margaret of Anjou, As Told by a Fight Director (2023 Audio)

aka: Episode 273

Series

That Shakespeare Life

Weekly Podcast hosted by Cassidy Cash in which she explores Elizabethan England and Shakespeare’s world. This week fight director Jared Kirby discusses his new production, Margaret: Shakespeare’s Warrior...

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Richard II (2000 Video)

Series

This England: The Histories

Director

Steven Pimlott

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2000 studio production of Richard II. Directed by Stephen Pimlott with Samuel West as Richard.

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Shakespeare and St. George (1926 Radio)

aka: St. George for Merrie England

Radio programme commemorating Shakespeare’s birth. The programme is introduced by Basil Dean. John Drinkwater talks about the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Milton Rosmer recites John of Gaunt’s Speech...

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Warwick Pageant (1906 Film)

A record of the Warwick Pageant held in the grounds of Warwick Castle 2-9 July 1906 and showing incidents in Warwick’s history from AD40-1572. Includes scenes from a performance of Christopher Marlowe’s...

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Winston Churchill Documentaries

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 112 minutes), $48.70

A pack consisting of a four Golden Age TV documentaries, 13 hours of audio recordings of speeches & broadcasts, including all his World War II broadcasts in their entirety, packed into 58 MP3s, plus a 105...

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Richard II (2001 Video)

Director

John Farrell

Producer

Joseph Erickson

Independent, digital, low-budget production, heavily abridged, with a re-working of Richard as a Rambo-esque war hero. This may be the first film of Richard II.

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Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings (2012)

Subject

English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £15.00

A three-part television series in which art historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as revealed through illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts...

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