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Jane Austen: Presumption (1995 Video)

aka: Presumption: The Life of Jane Austen

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

Biography of novelist Jane Austen, showing the stately home of her brothers, the ballrooms of her friends, the beach at Sidmouth where she fell in love. Descendants of her aristocratic family and...

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Hole in Fred’s Head, A (1995 Video)

Producer

John Hayes-Fisher; Emma Walker

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 35 min., 1998 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on Fred Amphlett, a 48-year-old man with Parkinson’s disease, whose medication has gradually lost its effectiveness. Follows him as he prepares for, undergoes and recovers from pioneering brain...

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Cult Breakers (1994 Video)

Producer

Emma Barker

Subject

Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min., 1999 sale: £65.00 (+VAT +p&p)

The Church of Christ is one of the world’s fastest growing cults and is alleged to use techniques of mind control on its members. Mike and Gill West-Eacott enrolled the services of a ‘cult breaker’ - a...

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Hardy: Poems

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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Off the Page: Look Back in Anger (1990)

Director

David Jones

Producer

Humphrey Barclay; David Parfitt; Moira Williams

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 114 minutes), OUT OF DISTRIBUTION

The Renaissance Theatre Company’s 1989 stage production, recreated for television, of John Osborne’s study of characters locked into the raw misery of a self-destructive marriage. Judi Dench and David...

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Madame Bovary (2005)

Subject

French studies; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £19.99

1975 television adaptation by Rodney Bennett of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Francesca Annis and Tom Conti. Trapped on a provincial French farm with her widowed father, Emma dreams of leading a...

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Man Who Lost His Body, The (1997 Video)

Director

Christopher Rawlence

Producer

Emma Crichton-Miller

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Twenty-five years ago at age 19, half of Ian Waterman’ nervous system was destroyed by a virus and he was left with no feeling below his neck. Through sheer determination he has taught his brain to...

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Mother Ireland (1988 Video)

Subject

History; Politics & government; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min.

The programme was to be broadcast on Channel Four but was the first programme to fall victim to the broadcasting ban. The film includes footage of Emma Groves immediately after she was shot with a rubber...

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Jane Austen’s Works

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £10.99

In her short life Jane Austen wrote six novels; ''Sense And Sensibility’', ''Pride And Prejudice’', ''Northanger Abbey’', ''Mansfield Park’', ''Emma’' and ''Persuasion’'. These well loved English...

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Balthus the Painter (1997 Video)

Director

Mark Kidel

Producer

Emma Crichton-Miller

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 58 minutes), £14.95

Profile of the painter Balthus (Count Balthasar Klossowski de Rola), born in Paris in 1908. Chronicles his life and traces the themes and motifs which recur in his work: young girls, knowing cats, spare...

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