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British Nobel Prize Winners

Date released

14 Dec 1950

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

50/100

NoS ID

103855

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

King and Queen of Sweden at Jubilee Nobel presentation at which two Britons receive awards. Professor Cecil Powell of Bristol University receives the prize for physics & Lord Bertrand Russell the prize of...

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Seamus Heaney: A Life in Poetry (2010)

Subject

Literature

Audio recording of an interview with Seamus Heaney at the Royal Society of Literature in London on 22/2/2010. The event was held in collaboration with Poet in the City and recorded by the British Library...

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Signing Shakespeare (2021 Video)

Recording of a discussion on the ‘Signing Shakespeare’ project, a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and the Royal Shakespeare Company to improve access to Shakespeare for young D/deaf...

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Harold Pinter gains literature award (1995)

Genre

Interview

Harold Pinter, playwright, has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, friend and colleague Salman Rushdie says a major literature honour in Pinter’s own country was...

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Harold Pinter on being awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature (1995)

Genre

Interview

Playwright and writer Harold Pinter has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, Pinter is reticent over his writing qualities. Interviewer not heard.

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V S Pritchett on English language and career (1980)

Genre

Interview; Discussion

Interview with British writer and critic V S Pritchett (Victor Sawdon Pritchett), on his upbringing, the use of English in the modern world, the standard of modern literature and criticism, and his own work....

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Andrei Klymchuk arrested in USSR (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Michael Klymchuk, father of Andrei Klymchuk, British student arrested by the KGB in the Ukranian city, Lvov on 01/8/77 where he was on holiday. May have been suspected of carrying anti-Soviet...

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Andrei Klymchuk arrested in USSR (1977)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Hazel Wilby, mother of Andrei Klymchuk, British student arrested by the KGB in the Ukranian city, Lvov on 01/8/77 where he was on holiday, may have been suspected of carrying anti-Soviet...

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British Muslims uphold fatwa (1990)

Genre

Interview; News report; Special; Speech

Grant Ferrett(?) reports on the fatwa, issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini on 14/02/89 against author Salman Rushdie, being upheld by a conference of British Muslims organised by the Muslim Institute....

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Larry Adler on protests over Salman Rushdie book (1989)

Genre

Interview

On the eve of a protest by Muslims it has been announced that for the first time a group of British authors are to publicly read out extracts from Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses. Writer and...

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