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  1. John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life (1989 Video)

    aka: Sir John Gielgud

    Director
    Dave Heather
    Producer
    John Miller
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Video cassette. VHS. col. 100 min.

    A two-part profile of Sir John Gielgud in which he reflects with John Miller on his career and the influences of other actors, directors, designers and playwrights. Illustrated with scenes from plays, films...

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  2. Hamlet

    Date
    18 Mar 2014, 08:01
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Hamlet. 2006. GB. CD. Naxos Audio Books. 240 minutes. Price £13.99. www.naxosaudiobooks.com/ About the reviewer: Susanne Greenhalgh is currently Principal Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance...

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  3. John Gielgud at the BBC (2000 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    Extracts of John Gielgud’s radio performances, collected from the BBC Archive. Includes ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ with Edith Evans, ‘Arms and the Man’, ‘Richard II’, ‘Measure for...

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  4. Antigone (1986)

    Director
    Don Taylor
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 110 minutes), $7.49 (MediaOutlet)

    A modern translation by Don Taylor of Sophacles’ tragedy depicting the individual conscience in conflict with tyranny. Antigone (Juliet Stevenson), the daughter of Oedipus, defies a royal edict when one of...

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  5. Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

    Director
    Jack Smight
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

    This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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  6. English Garden, The. Part 5: The Picturesque Paradise (1785-1840) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    After the death of Capability Brown in 1783, Humphrey Repton became recognised as his natural successor and used visible terraces and flowers to decorate the landscape. However, both Brown and Repton were...

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  7. TV Dante, A: ‘The Inferno’ Cantos I-Viii (1989 Video)

    Director
    Peter Greenaway; Tom Philips
    Producer
    Kees Kasander; Denis Wigman
    Subject
    English language and literature; Italian studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min., £15.99 (inc. VAT)

    A dramatisation using state-of-the-art visual techniques of Dante’s vision of hell, where figures from Dante’s own time mix with mythological and biblical characters as they suffer for their sins. Dante...

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  8. Oscar Wilde Collection, The (2005)

    Director
    Stuart Burge; John Gorrie; Rudolph Cartier
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £10.99

    Collection of BBC adaptations of Oscar Wilde’s plays. The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) Director: Stuart Burge. ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (1976) Director: John Gorrie Adapted by John Osborne,...

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  9. English Garden, The. Part 7: Technicolour and Technology (1914-) (1980 Video)

    Subject
    Architecture; Biology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 26 min.

    After World War I loss of confidence set in. Ideas were adapted from the past and people became more immediately concerned with collecting as many species and hybrids as possible. Immediacy was all and...

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  10. Romantics and Realists (1870-C1920) (1984 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1997 sale: £14.95 (+VAT +p&p) 1997 sale: £89.95 (+VAT +p&p) series of 16 programmes

    Readings from Thomas Hardy, Gerald Manley Hopkins, E A Houseman and Rudyard Kipling. Ashcroft and Glover read from Hardy: ‘The Ruined Maid’, ‘In Church’, ‘At Castle Boterel’, ‘I Looked into my...

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