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Shakespeare’s Poetry (2012 Audio)

Poetry celebration of Shakespeare with focus on his sonnets and the use of poetry in his plays. Poetry readings by actors Ion Caramitru and Michael Pennington. The following sonnets and extracts were read at...

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Mikhail Gorbachev takes part in Question Time (1993)

Genre

News report; Vox pop; Music; Speech; Poetry

Report on the visit of former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev to London, where he took part in a special edition of Question Time at Westminster Central Hall. Former Speaker of the House, Lord (Bernard)...

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Shakespeare’s Poetic Art (1949 Radio)

Series

Art of Poetry, The

Producer

J. Isaacs

Third in a series of programmes on the art of poetry produced by literary historian J. Isaacs. Samples of Shakespeare’s ‘poetic art’ are read by Douglas Leach.

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Neptune’s Nieces. Filmed at Southport

Date released

24 Jul 1930

Series name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue no

477

NoS ID

332490

Story no

5 / 6

Pathe Intertitles - "And all in such good form -" "There’s no doubt the best style of bathing costume is a nicely filled one -" "These shapely nieces of Neptune demonstrate that though dancing may be the...

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Poetry and Landscape (1993 Video)

Producer

Robert Philip

Subject

Art; English language and literature; History

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Looks at 18th-century landscape paintings and at poetry which describes landscapes, in the context of their social and political background. He argues that landscape was seen as providing a metaphor for...

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Poetry of Coleridge, The

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 60 minutes), £4.99

Sir Ralph Richardson reads five of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s finest works including ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’.

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Lady Lazarus (1991 Film)

Director

Sandra Lahire

Producer

Gill Genderson

Subject

English language and literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A visual response to Sylvia Plath’s readings of her own poetry. These readings plus extracts from an interview given just before Plath’s death provide an anchor for a film which celebrates her macabre...

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Poetry of Dylan Thomas, The (197)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

One of a series of audiotaped discussions which show literary criticism as a living, evolving interchange. This is a talk by J. Wain of Oxford University

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Bukowski at Bellevue (1970 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 60 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Amateur footage of a poetry reading by Charles Bukowski at Bellevue (Washington) Community College in 1970.

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Poetry; Music

In this week’s edition Keith Howell returns to the Fine Art and Antiques Fair at Earls Court Olympia, West London, and speaks to stall-holders about their craft. Speaking are: Tom Duggan, gilder; Geoffrey...

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