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Old Fairy Tales in ‘The Tempest’ (1927 Radio)

Series

Schools: How Shakespeare Used Old Stories

Radio broadcast for schools. In this English Literature series, I. M. Pagan identifies old folklore tales that are interwoven in various Shakespeare plays. This episode focuses on The Tempest.

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Folklore Cymbeline (2021 Audio)

aka: Episode 33

Series

Ripe Good Scholar

Audio podcast. In this episode Sara Plasskett and her husband Eli look at the oral storytelling tradition and how folk tales may have influenced Shakespeare when he wrote Cymbeline, especially Snow White.

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Old Fairy Tales in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1927 Radio)

Series

Schools: How Shakespeare Used Old Stories

Radio broadcast for schools. In this English Literature series, I. M. Pagan identifies old folklore tales that are interwoven in various Shakespeare plays. This episode focuses on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathé (1901)

Director

Georges Méliès

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

During the belle époque in turn-of-the-century Paris, a short-lived film form called ‘scènes de feeries’, or ‘fairy films’, was made popular thanks to the Pathé Frères company. The films...

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Adelaide Christmas Parade and Toys

Date released

29 Nov 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1173A

NoS ID

017481

Story no

4 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Christmas Approaches. DESCRIPTION: From Adelaide comes the annual Christmas parade designed to persuade Australians that, in spite of their Summer weather, Christmas is really on the...

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Gypsies

Date released

1971

Series name

This Week In Britain

Issue no

675

NoS ID

328916

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: In fairy tales the gypsy is a romantic figure, but in reality it can be a hard life. Now British County Councils are providing sites for gypsies, where they can have permanent homes and take...

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Romeo et Juliette (1994 Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Nicolas Joel

BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.

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Margaret Atwood (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Margaret Atwood, in conversation with with Hermione Lee at the ICA discusses: Themes of women ‘breaking out’ ; Visual imagery as inspiration; Literature informed by fairy tales; Writing as a woman...

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Cinderella

aka: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella

Director

Matthew Bourne

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 132 minutes), £17.99

Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing young RAF pilot. Together just long enough to fall in love, they are parted by the horrors of the Blitz. Among the...

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Kontakt (17 Parts) (1992 Audio, Video)

Subject

Russian studies

Distribution

Sale, Audiocassette. 17 x 30 min. Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 17 x 30 min., 1999 sale: £18.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Programmes selected from a series made in Russia by Russians for all who wish to learn the language and in doing so find out about the Russia rarely seen on the news: how ordinary people live and work, what...

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