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  1. Robert Leeson with Mary Cadogan (1985 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.

    Robert Leeson is interviewed on the publication of his book ‘Reading and Righting’, a survey of children’s literature. Described as the most important socialist writer for children, Leeson talks about...

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  2. English Literature Lecture Cassettes, Series

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale

    This series comprises 30 lectures and interviews on various aspects of English literature by eminent authors, poets, psychologists and professors.

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  3. Something About Poetry

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

    One of a series of taped lectures and interviews by eminent authors, poets, psychologists and professors on aspects of English Literature. Produces in the USA. This is a talk by W.H. Auden

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  4. Chinua Achebe with Nuruddin Farah (1986)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in conversation with Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. They discuss Achebe’s sense of identity - African and Nigerian, the question of language in a multicultural society,...

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  5. 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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  6. English, Whose English? (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Investigates some of the ways in which images of England were developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as a means of justifying and maintaining imperialism in the face of increasing doubt and...

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  7. Anna Akhmatova: ‘The Requiem’ (1991 Audio)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audiocassette. ? min., 1999 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A talk with Edwin Morgan, Professor of English Literature at the University of Glasgow and himself a poet, about Anna Akhmatova’s ‘Requiem’. They explore the role of Christian imagery in Akhmatova’s...

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  8. Empire and Nation: The Re-Fashioning of Literature (1990 Video)

    Producer
    G D Jayalakshmi
    Subject
    English language and literature; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shot in India, the programme looks at the British-Indian relationship from an Indian perspective, tracing the history of one Indian poem, ‘Radhika Santwanam’, from the 18th century to Independence. In...

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  9. Hawksmoor

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 540 minutes (cassette) 670 mins (CD)), £36.95 (cassette) £49.95 (CD)

    Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders on the sites of certain 18th century churches. The unabridged novel by Peter Ackroyd is read by Derek Jacobi.

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  10. Emma (2003)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £15.99

    A film version of the novel by Jane Austen, adapted by Douglas McGrath.

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