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  1. Anatomy of an Opera: Jonathan Miller (1978 Film)

    Director
    Alan Benson
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1978 Jonathan Miller produced the Mozart opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ for the English National Opera Company at the Coliseum in London. The film records Miller at work and in interview he discusses...

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  2. Jonathan Miller – One Thing and Another

    Date
    14 Jul 2017, 10:35
    Author
    Ben Hodson
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Jonathan Miller – One Thing and Another: Selected Writings 1954-2016 edited by Ian Greaves, (Oberon Books, 2017), 431 pages, ISBN: 978-1783197453 (paperback), £20 About the reviewer: John Cook is...

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  3. Alice in Wonderland (2003)

    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Jonathan Miller’s 1966 television adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic story. His vision of the story was a picture of upper-middle-class Victorian society, pompous, irascible, stuffy and addicted to...

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  4. On Reflection: Jonathan Miller (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 35 min., 1999 sale £10.00 (inclusive)

    Four short programmes in which Jonathan Miller draws on geometry and perception to look at how artists use reflections and mirrors in their paintings. He explores not only how artists have found the...

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  5. Vermeer: Light, Love and Silence (1996 Video)

    Director
    Michael Gill
    Producer
    Michael Gill
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £19.30

    Looks at the social, political and scientific context in which Jan Vermeer lived and worked and explains his techniques and his exploratory process of pictorial composition. Academics including Dr Jonathan...

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  6. Just an Illness (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 41 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) BBC 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p) OU

    Based on the ideas of Susan Sontag as described in her book ‘Illness as Metaphor’, the programme explores the impact of AIDS on contemporary society, comparing it to previous plagues which aroused...

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  7. Dr Miller and the Islanders (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Jonathan Miller retraces the steps of Alfred C Haddon, who set out for the Torres Strait near Australia on the first British anthropolotical expedition 100 years earlier. Miller examines the legacy of...

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  8. Only Joking - How Humour Makes Us Human (2007)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Audio recording of a discussion about the uniquely human capacity called humour, held at the RSA, London, on 4/7/2007. What evolutionary function does it serve? Is it a source of unity or division, sharing...

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  9. 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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  10. Whistle and I’Ll Come to You (1968 Video)

    aka: Oh, Whistle, And I’Ll Come to You, My Lad

    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    DVD

    A television adaptation by Jonathan Miller for the BBC ‘Omnibus’ series, of M R James’s story of the supernatural ‘Oh, whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad’. A tale of solitude, terror and the...

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