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Leicestershire - COLEORTON

Date released

Oct 1966

Series name

Mining Review 20th Year

Issue no

2

NoS ID

346348

Story no

2 / 3

BFI synopsis: The ancient home of the Beaumont family, Coleorton Hall, as an area headquarters for the NCB. NCB Commentary - Deep in Leicestershire’s county-side, not far from Ashby, stands Coleorton...

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Wordsworth: Poems of 1807

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette, 80 mins approx), £10.00

Tapes in the Critical Archive series are are designed for those who have read the relevant text and who have it in front of them; the poetry tapes take "close reading" as their method. Aimed primarily at...

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Black Tragedian, The (2004 Television)

Television documentary first shown on the digital Community Channel. Documentary recording the life of Ira Aldridge, a 19th-century black American Shakespearean actor who also worked in Britain, taking his...

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VallÉe Aux Loups, La (1966 Film)

Director

Jacques de Casembroot

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Chateaubriand’s writings concerning the country house, La Vallée aux Loups, which he bought when he was forced to leave Paris in 1807. Music apart, the whole soundtrack of the film consists of readings...

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The Negro Tragedian (2009 Radio)

Producer

Cecile Wright

Radio documentary by Kwame Kwei-Armeh tracing the life and work of nineteenth century black British actor Ira Aldridge. Undeterred by the racial hostility of the press, Aldridge pursued his acting career to...

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Red Velvet (2012 Video)

Director

Indhu Rubasingham

Video recording (mixed recording, four cameras) of Lolita Chakrabarti’s play about the 19th century actor Ira Aldridge and his taking the role of Othello. Adrian Lester plays Aldridge.

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Lake Poets, The: William Wordsworth (2004)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £14.99

The term ‘Lake poets’ was first used in the August 1817 ‘Edinburgh Review’ to describe William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey in a derogatory manner. History now regards the...

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Viva L’Italia (1961)

aka: Garibaldi

Director

Roberto Rossellini (1906-177)

Subject

History; Italian studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 129 minutes), £15.00/£12.00

To celebrate the centenary of the unification of Italy, the Italian government commissioned Rossellini to make a biopic of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his 1860 campaign to unify Italy. The result is visually...

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Antiques Fair

Date released

28 Sep 1975

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2417

NoS ID

030717

Story no

2 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Chelsea Antiques Fair. DESCRIPTION: One of the items on view at the Chelsea Antiques Fair was the oldest operational Fire Engine in Britain. It was part of a display of Antique Fire...

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