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Peter Cook dies (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Obituary; Drama; Tribute

Olivia MacLeod looks back at the career and influence of comedian Peter Cook, who has died aged 57. Includes edited clips of his profane show Pete n’ Dud with Dudley Moore and Cook talking to Simon Bates...

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Alfred Marks? on RSC production, Poppy (1983)

Genre

Interview

Actor Alfred Marks? on the RSC production of Poppy, a social satire on the opium trade in pantomime form by writer Peter Nichols and composer Monty Norman, which has transferred to the Adelphi Theatre, and...

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Ali G on Science (2007)

Subject

Media studies; Science

The British comedy character Ali G conducts a spoof interview with a panel of scientists including the creationist Dr Kent Hovind, Dr Joseph Coates, Dr Jerimiah Baumann and Graham Molitor. (7 minutes)

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John Waters on new film Hairspray (1988)

Genre

Interview

Carol Allen interviews film director John Waters about his new film Hairspray, a satire of 1960’s America. On what the film is about, his friend Harris Glenn Milstead the actor better know as Divine, and...

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To Be or Not to Be - Lubitsch, Shakespeare and the Theatricality of Power (2022 Video)

Recording of a lecture by Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) looking at Ernst Lubitsch’s 1942 wartime satire TO BE OR NOT TO BE (qv), analysing how it uses speeches from Shakespeare’s...

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John Wells interview (1979)

Genre

Interview; Music

Actor John Wells discusses his work with reference to Private Eye; Mrs Wilson’s Diary; Dear Bill; Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; co-founder of Private Eye, Richard Ingrams; record producer Martin Lewis;...

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Eunuch, The (1999 Video)

Subject

Classical studies; Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 2001 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A performance of Terence’s Latin satire ‘The Eunuch’ by staff and students of the departments of Classics and Drama at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, in a new translation by John...

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Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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Meyerhold’s Biomechanics: A Workshop (1996 Video)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 90 min., 2004 sale: £15.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

Videotaped source material for research purposes: this video shows Alexei Levinski, who trained at Moscow’s Theatre of Satire with Nicolai Kustow, leading a biomechanics workshop in October 1995. It...

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Augustan Poets, The (1999 Video)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £16.90

Introduces the work of the Augustan poets, concentrating on Pope and Dryden and includes readings and reconstructions to place the poets and their work in context. Examines themes such as bitterness,...

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