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Shakespeare’s Life and Work (1998 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Trade, The

Producer

Jane Greenwood (2)

Five-part radio series in which Professor Peter Holland talks to writers, actors and critics about aspects of Shakespeare’s work. In episode one he talks to biographer Park Honan and Katherine...

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Play about Beatles murderer (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Drama

Dominic Waghorn reports on a new theatre production at the Man in the Moon in London called Come Together, which re-enacts the life of former Beatle John Lennon’s murderer, Mark Chapman. Friends of the...

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Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999 Audio)

aka: Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 3

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 160 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A specially compiled collection including interviews and ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts, charting the career of journalist Alistair Cooke. Introduced by Nick Clarke, Cooke’s biographer.

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Denis Nilsen interview from Central Television’s Murder in Mind programme (1993)

Genre

Interview; Special

Section of the Central Television programme Murder in Mind including the interview at Albany Prison between psychologist Paul Britton and convicted serial killer Denis Nilsen, broadcast despite the attempt...

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The A-Z of Dr Johnson: Johnson’s Miscellany (2009 Radio)

Series

The A-Z of Dr Johnson

Producer

Joanna Green

Third episode of a three-part radio programme featuring readings from Samuel Johnson’s major works, read by Michael Pennington and introduced by Johnson’s biographer David Nokes. This episode includes...

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Napoleon’s Last Battle (1990 Video)

Director

Neil Cameron

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 65 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Although Napoleon Bonaparte is regarded as a charismatic politician and a military genius who laid the foundations of the modern French state, he spent his last years in exile on St Helena deliberately...

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Robert Maxwell death (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report; Obituary; Press conference; Tribute

Mark Phillips looks back on the career of and reports on tributes to the publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell, following his death after falling from his yacht off the coast of Tenerife. Speakers are: Robert...

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Ann Hathaway Revisited (2007 Audio)

Series

Royal Society of Literature

Author and academic Germaine Greer discusses Anne Hathaway and the commonly held beliefs about her and her marriage to William Shakespeare. Chaired by biographer Jonathan Bate and introduced by Maggie...

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W Eugene Smith (1989)

aka: W Eugene Smith: Photography Made Difficult

Director

Gene Lasko

Producer

Kirk Morris; Marthe Smith

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 89 minutes), £14.95

Documentary drama about the life and work of American photographer Eugene Smith (1918-1978), whose photos captured the changing social conditions and the enduring American spirit both at war and in peace and...

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Laura Knight (1877-1970) (1989 Film, Video)

Director

Jane Jackson

Producer

Jim Berrow

Subject

Art

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Laura Knight tells her story through radio and film interviews recorded in her lifetime; it is illustrated by her paintings. Her favourits subjects were the ballet, gypsies and the circul. During World War 2...

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