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Holbein Exhibition

Date released

4 Feb 1979

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2592

NoS ID

031248

Story no

1 / 2

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Holbein Exhibition. DESCRIPTION: At the Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, an Exhibition of sketches and paintings by the German 16th century artist, Hans Holbein the Younger. The...

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Wolf Hall (2015)

Director

Peter Kosminsky

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 6x50 mins), £10.99

Boxed set of the six-part adaptation of the award winning novels by Hilary Mantel. - Wolf Hall and Bring Out the Bodies. Set in the period 1500 to 1535, the serial is a fictionalised biography documenting...

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Henry VIII (2012 Video)

Video recording of the Rakatá company from Madrid staging of Henry VIII in the Globe to Globe season. Fernando Gil is King Henry. Spoken in Castilian Spanish.

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Our kind of town (1979)

Genre

Feature

Our Kind of Town. Presented by Richard Robbins, from Greenwich. Includes interviews with Caroline Wilson, who lives in Vanbrugh Castle in Greenwich Park; Commander of the Royal Naval College, John Munday,...

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Henry VIII (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £19.99

Two-part television drama depicting the life of King Henry VIII, his tempestuous 38 year reign and his fraught relationships with his many wives. In the first part, Henry is desperate to produce a son and...

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Man for All Seasons, A (1966)

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Producer

Fred Zinnemann

Subject

Drama; History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 116 minutes), £19.99

A film based on Robert Bolt’s play about Sir Thomas More’s personal conflict when King Henry VIII asks his support in breaking with Rome and forming the Church of England.

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Henry VIII (2005 Video)

Director

Pierre Jourdan

Saint-Saens’ opera based on Shakespeare’s Henry VIII. The Orchestre Lyrique Francais is conducted by Alain Guingal. Philippe Rouillon is Henry VIII.

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Macbeth; King Henry VIII (1923 Radio)

Radio programme with extracts from Shakespeare’s plays. The Times programme listings specify that Macbeth, Act I, Scenes v and vii, as well as Act II, Scene ii were broadcast between 20:00 and 21:10. This...

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Movietone Pageant of News, Sport & Aviation by Leslie Mitchell, Ivan Scott and Alan Howland: Aldershot Tattoo Full Dress Rehearsal

Date released

30 May 1938

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

469

NoS ID

008850

Story no

6 / 15

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Royal Tattoo Rehearsal. SHOTLIST: As in previous years the highlight is the parade of massed bands and the historical pageant which takes the form of the famous meeting between King...

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Henry VIII (1979 Radio)

Series

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Producer

Judith Bumpus

A personal introduction to the play and its qualities by Donald Sinden, who played the title role in the 1969 Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Trevor Nunn.

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