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Secrets and Lies (1995 Video)

Director

Mike Leigh

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

A successful career woman who has just buried her adoptive parents decides to search for her real mother.

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Hamlet (1999 Audio, Radio)

aka: BBC Radio Collection: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Series

Sunday Play, The

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Radio production of the play adapted and directed by Jeremy Mortimer, starring Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Timothy Spall...

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New Resource: British Pathé on Demand

Date

16 Mar 2017, 16:47

Author

Ben Hodson

Post Type

BUFVC Article

James Hoyle from British Pathé introduces the iconic company’s exciting new on demand platform, catering for academics and students of the humanities. This year marks the exciting return of British...

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Life is Sweet (1990 Video)

Director

Mike Leigh

Producer

Simon Channing-Williams

Subject

Drama

Distribution

DVD

A comedy following four days in the life of a working-class family as they interact and play out family conflict and love.

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Journey’s End (1988 Video)

Director

Michael Simpson

Producer

Shaun Sutton

Subject

Drama; History

Distribution

out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 109 min.

Drama by R C Sheriff of life in the trenches showing World War 1 through the eyes of a group of British officers.

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Denial (2017)

Director

Mick Jackson

Subject

History; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £5.25

Based on the book ‘Denial: Holocaust History on Trial’ by Professor Deborah Lipstadt, this feature film recounts Lipstadt’s legal battle for historical truth against British scholar David Irving, who...

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Shooting the Past (1999)

Director

Stephen Poliakoff

Producer

John Chapman

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 183 minutes), £15.99

Television drama in which a well-known photo library is taken over by a large American company but the librarians intend to save it and feel that the key may lie in the pictures it contains. Through...

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Party, The (2017)

Director

Sally Potter

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 71 minutes), £6.99

Janet has just been appointed as shadow health minister, the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at...

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Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1980 Audio)

Director

Trevor Nunn; John Caird

Live sound recording of Trevor Nunn’s and John Caird’s 1979 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor for the Royal Shakespeare Company with John Woodvine as Falstaff.

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Hamlet (1999 Audio)

Series

BBC Radio Collection

Director

Jeremy Mortimer

Producer

Jenny Bardwell

Radio broadcast of Hamlet. Michael Sheen as Hamlet, Kenneth Cranham as Claudius, Juliet Stevenson as Gertrude and Ellie Beavan as Ophelia. Introduced by Richard Eyre.

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