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  1. Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (2003)

    Director
    Tony Richardson
    Producer
    Michael Holden; Tony Richardson
    Subject
    Literature; Media studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 104 minutes), £17.99 (BFI)

    Feature film adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his own short story. A borstal boy finds freedom in the solitude of cross-country running. When his sporting prowess catches the eye of the governor he is coached...

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  2. Winter’s Tale, The (1997 Radio)

    Series
    Sunday Play
    Director
    Eoin O’Callaghan
    Producer
    Eoin O’Callaghan

    Full radio adaptation of Shakespere’s play produced and directed by Eoin O’ Callaghan. Tom Courtenay plays Leontes opposite Harriet Walter as Hermione (and Time). With music composed by Julie Cooper and...

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  3. British Social Realism at the Movies

    Date
    12 Jun 2014, 09:49
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    About the Author: Dr Sheldon Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Stage and Screen Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of Zulu: With Some Guts Behind It - The Making of the Epic Movie...

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  4. One Word of Truth (1981 Video)

    Director
    Peter J Sisam
    Producer
    Ailsa Hamilton; Harry Howlett; Finn Harald Wettefors
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 29 min.

    Based on Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Prize lecture. Prison camp sequences shot in Lapland, works of art and newsreel footage dramatise many issues facing mankind such as the differing scale of values in...

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  5. Little Dorrit (2008)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 480 minutes), £34.99

    A television version of the novel by Charles Dickens adapted into fourteen episodes by Andrew Davies. When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, his curiosity is piqued by the presence...

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  6. Dresser, The (1983 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter Yates
    Producer
    Peter Yates

    A film adaptation by Ronald Harwood of his own play, based on the touring career of Donald Wolfit, for whom Harwood was the dresser. The story relates the complex relationship between Sir, an ageing...

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