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STORMY GENIUS

Date released

Apr 1960

Series name

Mining Review 13th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

346081

Story no

2 / 4

BFI synopsis: Eastwood, birthplace of D.H. Lawrence, son of a miner, whose "Sons and Lovers" is being filmed there. NCB Commentary - D. H. Lawrence, writer of genius and son of a miner, was born at...

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Robert Graves: The Spoken Word (2009)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 68 minutes), £10.00

Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...

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Mysterious Affair at Elsinore, The (1949 Radio)

Radio programme in which Michael Innes investigates ‘the violent and more or less mysterious deaths’ of the potential inheritors to the throne of Denmark in his capacity as Shakespearean scholar and...

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Media Screen Round-up March 2017

Date

19 Apr 2017, 10:40

Author

Andrew Ormsby

Post Type

Post

The monthly round-up of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research and published at Learning on Screen by Andrew Ormsby. A special issue of Cahiers...

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Alan Sillitoe: A Writer in His Place (1980 Multimedia)

Director

T Evans

Producer

T Evans

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

out of distribution, 145 slides. col.

Illustrates the close identity between the social purpose of Alan Sillitoe’s proletarian novels and their actual location in the city of Nottingham.

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Iris Murdoch (1978 Audio)

Producer

David E Gerard

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

out of distribution, Audiocassette. 60 min.

Iris Murdoch discusses the ideas behind her novels and the subjects which have prompted her to write imaginatively about them. She relates her interest in philosophy to her interest in the creative process...

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Virginia Woolf: A New Kind of Novelist (2 Parts) (1974 Audio)

Director

N.C. Collins

Producer

N.C. Collins

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 40, 43 min.

An introduction to the novels of Virginia Woolf. In Part 1 Professor Brooks treats the writer’s special gifts in this literary genre, and her vision of experience. In Part 2 he considers Virginia Woolf’s...

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Mystery of Charles Dickens, The (2002)

Subject

Drama; English language and literature; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 90 minutes), £16.99 (inclusive)

A recording of Simon Callow’s one-man show at the Albery Theatre, London, which ran from 2000 to 2002. The play was written by Peter Ackroyd. As well as recreating scenes from Dickens’ novels, Ackroyd...

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Future of Print, The (1986 Video)

Producer

Geoff Wheeler

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

What future is there for the printed word?. By looking at the impact of the printing press in the 15th century, we can get some clues to the future. Presents a brief history of printing and literacy using...

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Aldous Huxley: The Spoken Word (2010)

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 74 minutes), £9.95

This CD contains recordings from the BBC archives spanning nearly thirty years. On it, Aldous Huxley discusses a range of topics, including the causes of war and the effects of drug-taking on the writing...

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