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St Peter’s Lights Up

Date released

23 May 1935

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

442

NoS ID

033878

Story no

6 / 7

Famous cathedral illuminated to celebrate canonization of Sir Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher.

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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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Shakespeare Republic: Thomas More (2017 Video)

aka: Shakespeare Republic: Season 2 Episode 3

Series

Shakespeare Repuplic

Director

Sally McLean

Producer

Sally McLean; Billy Smedley

Played by Christopher Kirby, Thomas More pleads to members of parliament to guard their souls against the retribution that must surely come should they decide to support the desire of Henry VIII to have a...

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Nick Raynsford on Fulham By-election victory (1986)

Genre

Interview

Nick Raynsford on his victory for the Labour Party in the Fulham By-election last night, and the reasons why he thinks he won the seat. He says the Militant Tendency was not much of an issue. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War

Date

3 Feb 2015, 10:34

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

BUFVC Review

Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War by Alfred Thomas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 265 pages, ISBN: 978-1403911643 (hardback) £55.00 About the reviewer: Dr Erica Sheen teaches and researches in the...

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Charlton Heston gives reading at St Brides Church, London (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Drama

Mark Percy reports on a reading by American actor, Charlton Heston at St Brides Church, Fleet Street, London, from A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt. Heston is in London to star in the West End...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Night Waves [24/03/2005] (2005 Radio)

Series

Night Waves

BBC Radio 3 arts series. Includes an item assessing Sir Thomas More as a collaboration between Anthony Munday, Henry Chettle, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood and Shakespeare. A production at the RSC opened in...

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Sir Thomas More (1960 Audio, Radio)

Director

Brunar Herbert

Austrian radio adaptation of the scene of the play attributed to Shakespeare. Adapted by Richard Flatter and directed by Brunar Herbert. In an introductory comment, Flatter discusses Shakespeare’s part in...

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Thomas More (2005 Video)

Director

Robert Delamere

A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2005 production of Thomas More. Directed by Robert Delamere with Nigel Cooke as Sir Thomas More.

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Scenes from the Booke of Sir Thomas More (1948 Radio)

Series

International Drama

Producer

Felix Felton

Presentation of scenes from an unperformed Elizabethan play ascribed in part to Shakespeare. Adapted and introduced by John Bryson. With Lewis Casson in the title role.

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