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Comedy of Errors, The (1984 Video)

Director

Adrian Noble

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the 1983 Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Comedy of Errors. Directed by Adrian Noble with Zoe Wanamaker as Adriana and Henry Goodman as Dromio...

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Your Madness Mr Shakespeare: From 4 Tragedies 100% Concentrated (2001 Video)

aka: Crazy Shakespeare

Director

WEI Ying-chuan

Video recording of WEI Ying-chuan’s stage production which interprets ‘four classic mad scenes’ from the tragedies - King Lear on the heath, Ophelia’s drowning, Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene...

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Chinese Schools (2008)

aka: Chinese School

Subject

Education; Geography; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £17.00

Documentary series about the hopes and dreams of a group of children at three schools in the small Chinese town of Xiuning, in rural Anhui. The programmes focus on the lives of a group of families, teachers...

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Biao Cuo Quing (1956 Film)

aka: Laughable Mistakes

Director

Lau Fong

Feature film version of A Comedy of Errors. Chan Tai-on and Siu-on are twin brothers. Tai-kwok and Siu-kwok are their twin cousins. The brothers are separated in the war. Later, the two elder cousins settle...

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Troilus and Cressida (2019 Video)

Director

Gregory Doran

Live recording of a performance of the 2018 Royal Shakespeare Theatre production directed by Gregory Doran starring Gavin Powler and Amber James. DVD extras include a commentary by Doran with Assistant...

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Tempest, The (2004 Video)

Director

Hark Tsui; Hsing-kuo Wu

Video recording of the Contemporary Legend Theatre Company’s production of The Tempest co-directed by Wu Hsing-kuo and the Hong Kong film-maker Tsui Hark. The production combines jingju, kunju, and...

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China’s Capitalist Revolution (2009)

Producer

Robert Coldsream

Subject

Economics; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £330.00

This programme tells the little-known story of Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Chairman Mao who attempted to start opening up the country to the West and introduce capitalist principles to the Chinese. When...

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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Xivth Olympiad 1948

Date released

2 Aug 1948

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1000

NoS ID

015242

Story no

1 / 1

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Xivth Olympiad - London 1948. DESCRIPTION: London, acting as host City, stages the Games for the first time since 1908, and Movietone, in presenting the opening scenes, will screen the...

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Synergise! Lectures Series (2011)

Subject

Languages

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 360 minutes), £202.00

This series of 4 DVDs comprises 12 lectures presented in November 2010 at the Synergise! Conference organised and hosted by AUSIT, the Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators. The presentations...

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How to Find the Sweet Spot (2005)

Subject

Physics

A "sweet spot" is that unique place on a bat or racquet where you can hit a ball without jarring yourself. It’s also the perfect tuning point of a musical instrument, the point of balance in a circus act,...

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