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Movietone’s News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Italy Votes for Republic

Date released

17 Jun 1946

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

889

NoS ID

013898

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Italian Elections. DESCRIPTION: The Christian Democrats having won the election in Italy meant the end of the monarchy. King Umberto quickly left the country leaving Signor de Gasperi...

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David Starkey - Monarchy Series 1 (2007)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 219 minutes), £19.99

The first series of Dr David Starkey’s programmes examining the British monarchy and its relationship with its subjects over the centuries. He begins in the Dark Ages with Alfred the Great and goes up to...

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Fall of the Tsars, The (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 52 min.

Footage of the Russia’s Royal Family showing its opulent life style, which contributed to its ultimate overthrow and slaughter.

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C. L. R. James Lectures: Shakespeare (1983 Video)

Director

Christian Wangler

The West Indian historian C L R James talks about King Lear and why Shakespeare, ‘the most political writer that Britain has ever seen in regard to the creative arts’, was ‘no racist’. He quotes...

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Margaret Thatcher on Fijian coup (1987)

Genre

Interview

UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the military coup in Fiji, and the possibility of Fiji’s applying to become a republic. Interviewer’s words not included.

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My millennium: life beyond the year 2000 (1996)

Genre

Interview

Chris Mann interviews Labour MP Glenda Jackson on life beyond the year 2000, covering her personal aspirations for the new millennium. Jackson advocates more women MPs in the House of Commons by...

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King’s a Beggar - Now the Play is Done, The (2000 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare Lectures

Producer

Tanya Hudson

BBC radio series. Six commissioned lectures on Shakespeare and his meaning in the modern world. In episode 1 Professor Germaine Greer argues that Shakespeare’s neglected play King John is one of the most...

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Episode 4 (2023 Radio)

Series

Taking Issue with Shakespeare

Producer

Beaty Rubens

A five-part radio series in which Professor Emma Smith, University of Oxford, talks to major public figures about the role that Shakespeare might play in dealing with contemporary issues. With contributions...

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Shakespeare and Power (2016 Radio)

aka: Power of Royalty, The

Series

Words and Music

Radio broadcast. Juliet Stevenson and Tim Pigott-Smith are the readers in a sequence of texts and music inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite themes: the power of royalty and monarchy as a metaphor...

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Memorial Chapel

Date released

3 Apr 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2078A

NoS ID

027807

Story no

3 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Memorial Chapel. DESCRIPTION: In St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, in itself a monument to the British Monarchy, a memorial Chapel to King George VI is dedicated in the presence of...

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