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  1. Nightmare: The Birth of Horror (4 Parts) (1996)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 4 x 50 minutes), £125 each or £250 the series

    A BBC series, written and presented by Professor Christopher Frayling, investigating the origins of our popular gothic novels. These best-selling books have thrived in industries such as film,...

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  2. Thomas Keneally on winning Booker Prize (1982)

    Genre
    Interview

    Writer, Thomas Keneally talks about winning the Booker Prize for his novel, Schindler’s Ark. Female interviewer not identified.

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  3. Window on Wessex (1978 Video)

    Director
    Michael Steele
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 39 min.

    Introducesthe Dorset environment in which Thomas Hardy grew up and which had such a fundamental effect on his novels.

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  4. Mary Barton (Audio) (2001)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette), £15.99

    This full-cast dramatisation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s "tale of Manchester life" is set in the "hungry forties" of the 19th century when a series of bad harvests placed a heavy tax burden on workers....

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  5. Fay Weldon on Graham Green’s death (1991)

    Genre
    Interview

    Michael Parkinson interviews the Chairman of the Booker Prize committee Fay Weldon on the death of author Graham Greene, his accessible but well-written novels and importance as a novelist, and what he was...

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  6. Wired for Books: Margaret Atwood (1986)

    Subject
    Literature

    Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Cats’ Eye, talks to Don Swaim in 1986 about growing up in the Canadian forests, her novels, her thoughts about religion and human rights, and why she...

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  7. Precious bane (1985)

    Genre
    Fiction; Serial

    Precious Bane. Reading from the 1924 novel by Mary Webb, set in rural Shropshire at the time of the Battle of Waterloo, about a girl with a hare-lip. Apparently the first 2 instalments of 19, to be...

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  8. Portrait of Jane Austen (1985)

    Genre
    Discussion; Special

    Conversation between Jane Austen biographer Lord David Cecil and Sean Street, recorded at Lord Cecil’s Cranborne home.

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  9. Look at Thomas Hardy - Man of Wessex

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 35 minutes), £34.95

    Looks at the life and works of Thomas Hardy. The film captures the atmosphere and moods of Wessex - the landscape and places which inspired Hardy’s novels and poems.The narrator is Gerald Pitman, ‘Dorset...

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  10. Jeffrey Archer new novel (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Sue Jameson interviews author and former politician Jeffrey Archer about his new novel entitled Kane and Abel.

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