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  1. Arthur Miller (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £195.00

    Alan Yentob interviews Arthur Miller about his life and career. Miller talks about his New York upbringing and the Great Depression’s effects upon him, then discusses the McCarthy witch-hunt trials and his...

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  2. New King Lear, A (1971 Television)

    Series
    Review
    Director
    Alan Yentob
    Producer
    Barrie Gavin

    A BBC topical arts magazine series. This episode includes an interview with Edward Bond, who talks about his play Lear that premiered the same week with Harry Andrews in the title role. Bond states that his...

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  3. An awfully big adventure - premiere (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Lizzie Knight reports from the world premiere at The Empire, Leicester Square in London, of a new British film starring Hugh Grant - An Awfully Big Adventure. Includes clip from the film. Speaks to Hugh...

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  4. Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (2012)

    Director
    Neil Crombie
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £12.50

    Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambitious show yet: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Given free rein to choose whatever he wants from the...

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  5. Shylock’s Ghost (2015 Television)

    Series
    Imagine...
    Director
    Colette Camden

    Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...

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  6. Hands off the Classics (1978 Television)

    Series
    Lively Arts, The
    Producer
    Dennis Marks; Alan Yentob

    Anthology arts series. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.

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  7. Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Michael Blackwood
    Producer
    Alan Yentob
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Filmed entirely in the small studio in Chelsea where Francis Bacon lived from 1961, the artist speaks candidly and informally with David Sylvester about his life and work.

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  8. Orson Welles Story, The (1982 Television)

    Series
    Arena
    Producer
    Alan Yentob; Leslie Megahey

    Two-part television documentary on Orson Welles. In the first part, which covers his career in America, Welles talks to interviewer Alan Yentob about MACBETH (1948) saying it was a B-picture quickie. He...

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  9. Being Hamlet (2006 Television)

    Series
    Imagine...
    Director
    Rupert Edwards
    Producer
    Rupert Edwards

    Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...

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  10. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Alabama 40 Years on (1979 Film)

    Director
    Carol Bell
    Producer
    Alan Yentob
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) travelled south to Alabama. They lived with a family of poor white white farmers...

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