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Brimstone and Treacle (TV 1976) (1976 Video)

Director

Barry Davis

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £5.99

Dennis Potter’s controversial black comedy in which the devil in disguise involves himself with the family of a girl who is physically amd mentally disabled after a road accident. The film was banned for...

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Cymbeline (1983 Television, Video)

Series

Shakespeare in Perspective

Producer

Victor Poole

A personal view of the play presented by Dennis Potter. The series aims to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the plays by placing them in their social and historical context and by...

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Playwright Dennis Potter dies (1994)

Genre

Interview

Tanya Hines interviews Deputy Head of Drama at Channel 4 Peter Ansorge on the recent death of playwright Dennis Potter. He discusses the work ethics and talent of Potter; controversial views; remembers when...

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Singing Detective - Symposium

Date

29 Nov 2011, 14:51

Author

bufvcsergio

Post Type

Post

The Singing Detective - 25th Anniversary Event Saturday 10 December 2011 Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London The twenty-fifth anniversary of the six-part serial...

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Brian Hayes show (1978)

Genre

Advertisement; Interview; Music; News bulletin; Phone-in

Brian Hayes interviews Dennis Potter, playwright, about his life and background; writing style; music; illness; his television drama, Pennies from Heaven. Includes questions from members of the public via...

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Dennis Potter: Blue Remembered Hills (1979 Video)

aka: Blue Remembered Hills

Director

Brian Gibson

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s play about childhood and the quickly changing intensities of misery and unhappiness, kindness and cruelty. On an apparently ordinary summer’s day in 1943, seven children are playing in...

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Between Two Rivers (1960)

Director

Dennis Potter

Producer

Anthony de Lotbiniere

Subject

Media studies; Television studies

Dennis Potter’s debut, not as a playwright, but as a documentary maker, sees him return to the Forest of Dean having being trained by BBC documentary maker Denis Mitchell. During the course of the film,...

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Follow the Yellow Brick Road (1972 Video)

Director

Rod Graham

Producer

Alan Bridges

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Dennis Potter’s play in which a disturbed television actor overwhelmed with disgust at the misery of life takes refuge in the false security of psychiatry and anti-depressant drugs, knowing that they only...

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Dennis Potter - In Person (1996 Video)

Director

Tim Poole

Producer

Nigel Wattis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 133 min., 1996 sale: £12.99 (inclusive)

Two programmes: In the first, shortly before his death from cancer, dramatist Dennis Potter was interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for Channel Four’s ‘Without Walls’ slot in what was to be his last television...

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Singing Detective, The (2004)

Director

Jon Amiel

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 392 minutes), £19.99

Dennis Potter’s television mini-series that combines fantasy and reality with hit songs from the 1940s. Stars Michael Gambon as an unsuccessful thriller writer who is hospitalised with a terrible skin...

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