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  1. Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

    Director
    Tony Palmer
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 140 minutes), £13.99

    Profile of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose work explores the excesses of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The film includes interviews with Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer and...

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  2. BBC Acting Series, The (2006)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6 x 60 minutes), 19.99 each or £99.99 the set

    A series of six 60-minute programmes featuring leading actors discussing and demonstrating different styles of acting. Individual programmes are acting in film - Michael Caine; acting in opera - Jonathan...

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  3. Wars of the Roses, The: Adapted from the Henry VI Plays and Richard III by William Shakespeare (2016)

    Director
    Peter Hall; John Barton
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 505 minutes), £29.99

    The Wars of the Roses is a version of the RSC’s landmark production of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy and Richard III. Adapted and directed for the stage by Peter Hall and John Barton, The Wars...

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  4. Hildegard (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1998 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

    A dramatisation of the life of Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, a 12-century nun and visionary known for her musical compositions, whose music is being rediscovered by modern scholars and musicians. With Patricia...

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  5. Seven Centuries of the English Windmill (1996 Video)

    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £15.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    The history of windmills in England from the wooden post mill and the timber smock mill to the stone tower mill, showing windmills in the Midlands, East Anglia and southern England. With wind power gathering...

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  6. Chemistry of Life and Death, The (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Cameron Balbirnie; Andrew Law; Paul Manners; Nick Watson
    Subject
    Chemistry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Aspects of life and death from a chemical perspective. What happens to our body chemistry when we have a heart attack? What role did oxygen play in the origins of life? How do the toxic by-products of oxygen...

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  7. Anton Chekhov Collection, The (2008)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 1094 minutes), £33.58

    A 6-disc set of BBC television productions of Chekhov’s plays. Contents: PLATONOV with Rex Harrison in the title role (Play of the Month, 1971); THE WOOD DEMON with Ian Holm in the lead role (1974); THE...

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  8. Singing Detective, The (2004)

    Director
    Jon Amiel
    Producer
    Kenith Trodd
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 392 minutes), £19.99

    Dennis Potter’s television mini-series that combines fantasy and reality with hit songs from the 1940s. Stars Michael Gambon as an unsuccessful thriller writer who is hospitalised with a terrible skin...

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