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Britain’s Hardest Worker

Date released

7 Aug 1961

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

345

NoS ID

121096

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

NoS Summary - Stan Walduck, the father of nine children, works at a great many jobs including village postman, parish gravedigger, window cleaner, village fireman, chimney sweep, fish and chip shop employee.

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Shakespeare and the Law (2016)

Subject

Law; Shakespeare

Video podcast from Warwick University with PhD student Adam Slavny and Professor of Law Paul Raffield. The podcast takes as its starting point the gravedigger scene from Hamlet, which parodies Hales v....

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Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit (2019)

aka: Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit - Shakespeare in Vr

Director

Steven Maler

Producer

Graham Sack; Quentin Little

This immersive adaptation of Hamlet offers the play using 360 degree Virtual Reality techniques, and is designed to be viewed with a VR headset for the best viewing experience. The play is presented as...

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Keith Sugden on Peter Sutcliffe (1981)

Genre

Interview

Keith Sugden, Peter Sutcliffe’s best friend as a teenager, says Sutcliffe enjoyed his job as a gravedigger. Male interviewer not identified.

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Ripper Sutcliffe Shorts: a special programme (1981)

See also AV769/671/S1. Track 1- Factory worker Carol Jones was Peter Sutcliffe’s first girlfriend. The couple went out for 4 years in their teens. Carol, who still lives in Bingley, remembers a very...

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Eric Robinson on Peter Sutcliffe (1981)

Genre

Interview

Eric Robinson, a gravedigger who knew Peter Sutcliffe through work, says Sutcliffe stole jewellery from bodies before burying them. Male interviewer not identified.

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Trailers for programme on Yorkshire Ripper (1981)

Genre

Trailer; Interview

Four 30-second trailers for an LBC programme about the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. Includes excerpts from interviews with gravedigger Eric Robinson, tape hoaxer Wearside Jack (John Humble), detective...

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Harry Secombe Show, The [16/12/1972] (1972 Television)

Series

Harry Secombe Show, The

Director

James Moir

Producer

Terry Hughes

BBC television comedy sletch show. This episode Includes a c3 minute sketch in which Harry Secombe plays the gravedigger to Julian Orchard’s Hamlet. While Hamlet makes his speech he is interrupted by...

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Lear (1971 Audio)

Director

William Gaskill

A live sound recording of Edward Bond’s play Lear first performed at the Royal Court theatre, London. Harry Andrews is Lear.

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Hamlet (1997 Radio)

Series

Opera Matinee

Radio broadcast. Thomas Ambroise’s five-act opera with Simon Keenlyside in the title role. The Geneva Grand Theatre Chorus and the Suisse Romande Orchestra is conducted by Louis Langr .

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