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Plays for Britain: The Complete Series (2013)

Director

Michael Apted; Jim Goddard; Leslie Blair; Peter Gill; Alan Clarke; Philip Saville

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 325 minutes), £19.99

Thames Television series which was first broadcast in the mid-1970s, featuring six contemporary plays by writers then at relatively early stages in their careers. Stephen Poliakoff’s HITTING TOWN is an...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1987 Radio)

Series

RSC in Repertoire

Producer

M. Corwin

Radio documentary series presented by Linda Cookson. Directors, designers and leading actors discuss the planning and staging of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current stage production of A Midsummer...

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Copenhagen climate change conference

Date

2 Dec 2009, 16:12

Author

Cathy Grant

Post Type

Post

The campaigning film THE AGE OF STUPID, directed by Franny Armstrong, will be shown on BBC4  in the Storyville strand on 14 December, as part of the BBC's coverage of the UN Climate Change COP 15...

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Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

Director

Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Stephen Frears

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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Age of Stupid, The (2009)

Director

Franny Armstrong

Subject

Energy; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 92 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £14.00 Spanner direct

Pete Postlewaite stars in this cautionary look at our changing climate, and what could become of our world should we continue to ignore the warning signs and not stop global warming while we still have the...

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Shakespeare: The Animated Tales, Series (2005 Television)

A 3-disc set including 30-minute animated adaptations of twelve of Shakespeare’s best known plays. With voices provided by such actors including Hugh Grant, Antony Sher, Jenny Agutter, Stephen Tompkinson...

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Lear (1983 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1983 production of Edward Bond’s play, directed by Barry Kyle with Bob Peck as Lear. ‘In Bond’s play, Lear is a...

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William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo + Juliet’ (1996 Film, Video)

aka: William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet

Director

Baz Luhrmann

Producer

Baz Luhrmann; Gabriella Martinelli

An adaptation of Romeo and Juliet radically interpreting the text, while preserving the verse. Set in a futuristic Verona, the film uses shock cuts, speeded-up trick motion, and a rock music score. Leonardo...

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Taming of the Shrew, The (1983 Video)

Director

Barry Kyle

A video recoridng, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare’ Company’s 1982 production of The Taming of the Shrew. Directed by Barry Kyle with Alun Armstrong as Petruchio and Sinead Cusack...

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King Lear (1983)

Director

Adrian Noble

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1982 production of King Lear. Directed by Adrian Noble with Michael Gambon as Lear and Antony Sher as the Fool.

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