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  1. Benjamin Britten (2018)

    Subject
    Music

    Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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  2. The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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  3. Rameau Project, The (2010)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £130.00

    The results of a four-year development process by The Opera Project, THE RAMEAU PROJECT is a sprawling, multi-layered music theatre work for nine performers, featuring Kellaway’s "re-imaginings" of the...

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  4. Brecht: A Man’s a Man (1962)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 27 minutes), £150.00

    Eric Bentley - historian, playwright, drama critic and leading Brecht scholar - introduces scenes from his translation of Bertolt Brecht’s play-with-songs "Mann Ist Mann" ("A Man’s A Man.") The...

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  5. Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 1) (2013)

    Subject
    History; Music

    What’s really going on in Wagner? Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at the man whose music has gripped him for as long as he can remember. The...

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  6. Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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  7. Hell on Earth (1931)

    aka: Niemandsland

    Director
    Victor Trivas; George Shdanoff
    Subject
    History

    The story of five men, an Englishman, a Frenchman, a German, a Russian Jew, and a Black American who meet on the battlefield of World War I. Setting aside their prejudices, they refuse to kill each other and...

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  8. Guardian Tech Weekly Podcast: Creating a Digital Public Space (2011)

    Subject
    Information technology; Librarianship; Technology

    In the 28 September 2011 edition of The Guardian’s weekly Tech Podcast Jemima Kiss examines plans for a digital public space - a part of the internet that could grant worldwide access and create links...

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  9. Voices and Visions, Series (1988)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 60 minutes), Free online

    VOICES AND VISIONS is a series in which the lives and works of 13 renowned American poets are interpreted through dramatics readings, archival photographs, dance, performances and interviews. Illustrative...

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