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Hawksmoor

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, Audio (Cassette CD, 540 minutes (cassette) 670 mins (CD)), £36.95 (cassette) £49.95 (CD)

Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates a series of macabre murders on the sites of certain 18th century churches. The unabridged novel by Peter Ackroyd is read by Derek Jacobi.

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God and Shakespeare (2001 Film)

Director

Sandor Lau

Producer

Simon Farrell-Green

Fiction short. A western-style shoot out on a beach between God and Shakespeare - the protagonists quote variously from Shakespeare and the Bible.

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A study in scarlet (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from A Study In Scarlet, a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1887, first fictional appearance of Sherlock Holmes. Male reader not identified.

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Media Screen Roundup - September 2015

Date

9 Oct 2015, 15:19

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

The monthly roundup of film and television publications compiled by Simon Baker, Institute of Historical Research, and published here at the BUFVC by Linda Kaye. Here be dragons! Sorry I could not resist...

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A study in scarlet (1985)

Genre

Fiction; Serial

Reading from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective mystery story, A Study in Scarlet, first book in which Sherlock Holmes appeared. Part 1, Chapters 3, 4 & 5. Male reader not identified.

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Narrative (1987 Video)

Producer

Tony Coe

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Umberto Eco suggests that all novels are a sort of detective story. To test the theory, argues Graham Martin, it is necessary to understand how a narrative works. A dramatised example of a scene from Chapter...

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Detective (1985 Film)

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Producer

Alain Sarde; Christine Gozlan

Feature film. Story set in an hotel, concerning the activities of four groups of people, including two detectives trying to solve a murder which happened in there. All the characters read from literary...

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Teenage English (2 Parts) (2002)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL NTSC, 35 mins each part), £27.50 (each part)

A series of short lifestyle documentaries offering authentic English at intermediate level. Consists of a series of video ‘essays’ by teenagers that illustrate their lives in Britain today. Topics...

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Se7en (1995 Film)

aka: Seven

Director

David Fincher

Producer

Phyllis Carlyle; Arnold Kopelson

Murder thriller revolving around a serial killer obsessed with the seven deadly sins, who uses the sins themselves as calling cards in a series of ritualistic murders. The gruesome murder of the prominent...

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A picture of Sherlock Holmes (1981)

Genre

Feature; Special

A picture of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective. Includes contributions from novelist Michael Hardwick; Lord (David) Gore-Booth; Pip Dalton, Scotland Yard Information Officer;...

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