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Focus: Interview with Paul Hyland (1985)

Sean Street in coversation with Paul Hyland, poet and writer. He talks about his life and his career and his books: Purbeck, and Green Island. [Box 1 - Sean Street Collection]

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Shaw of Shaw’s Corner (1988)

Genre

Feature

Shaw of Shaw’s Corner. A programme (part of the Document series?) on the life of Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. Includes facts about Shaw’s life and writings, and takes a tour through Shaw’s...

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Network (1982)

Genre

Discussion; Documentary; Interview

Network: A Bloomsbury Album, presented and produced by Sean Street, originally from 2CR. Puts the album of photographer Vanessa Bell in the spotlight. Charleston House is where the intellectual Bloomsbury...

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A head on my shoulders: the diary of Dame Alice Lisle (1985)

aka: Vesper Hunter in conversation with Sean Street

Three hundred years ago on September 3rd (1685), Dame Alice Lisle of Moyles Court near Ringwood was executed for giving shelter to two supporters of the Monmouth Rebellion. Now Vesper Hunter, an author who...

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Daughter the younger (1988)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Poetry

Sean Street talks to Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of Edward Thomas, poet who died during the Battle of the Somme in World War One when she was a young girl. On her father, his poetry and family life. Includes...

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Focus: Music of Melodrama - Programme 2 (1985)

Sean Street interviews the expert on the Music of Melodrama also known as incidental music, Dr. Eric John Heavens. Continuation of the Programme 1. [Box 1 - Sean Street Collection]

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Watchman (1986)

In 1984 D.G. Finley published ‘Watchman’, the first in a quartet of novels about a strange and beautiful house called ‘Lavenham’ in the Sussex village of Apuldram. In July the final book in the sequence...

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The Banks of Newfoundland (1985)

Devised by Sean Street, this programme explores the history of the Dorset fishing trade during the last century, those engaged in which risked life and limb to set up a new living in Newfoundland. The...

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Thomas Carlyle, the sage of Chelsea (1987)

Genre

Feature

The Sage of Chelsea: Thomas Carlyle. Sean Street visits the home of 19th-century writer, Thomas Carlyle, at 24 Cheyne Row, London. Includes readings from Carlyle’s work and from the diaries of his wife...

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Henry Irving at the Lyceum (1986)

Genre

Feature

Henry Irving at the Lyceum, produced and presented by Sean Street. Feature investigating the history of the Lyceum Theatre, London, coinciding with speculation about its future, and on the life and times of...

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