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Young Russia Tries English

Date released

11 Feb 1960

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

60/13

NoS ID

109035

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Schools in Southern Russia put English first in foreign languages.

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Before Babel (1992 Video)

Subject

Linguistics

Distribution

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

Is it possible that all human languages share a common ancestor? Since William Jones discovered the link between English and Sanskrit in 1783, the existence of a group of languages known as Indo-European has...

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Shakespeare Minus English (1994 Radio)

Series

Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five-part series in which Michael Kustow explores Shakespeare’s status as the world’s most popular playwright. In episode four Kustow looks at the challenge of translating Shakespeare into other...

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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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Focus: The Thomas Hardy Collection (1986)

Sean Street visits Dorchester Library to see the unique set of items owned and by Thomas Hardy. He talks to Deputy Librarian Ian Lewis who explains how this Special Collection started. It is a huge Catalogue...

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Global Shakespeare

Date

11 Jul 2011, 11:49

Author

Eve-Marie

Post Type

Post

'Global Shakespeare' is the theme of a forthcoming special issue pf the Journal of British Shakespeare Association special issue. The BSA's Shakespeare journal welcomes papers on Shakespeare in performance...

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English For Africa

Series name

London Line

Issue no

508

NoS ID

326798

Story no

1 / 1

COI synopsis: Adapting the languages of Africa to provide for the vocabularies of science and technology.

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Pope John Paul II assassination attempt (1981)

Genre

News report; Special

Broadcasts in various languages from Vatican Radio announcing and describing the attempted assassination and wounding of Pope John Paul II (Karol Jozef Wojtyla) in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City...

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Language change in Gibraltar (1982)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on how language in Gibraltar has changed since the border with Spain was opened, and why he likes living in Gibraltar. Female interviewer not identified.

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Printing

Date released

Jun 1963

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

14

NoS ID

327570

Story no

4 / 7

NoS synopsis: Visits a factory in eastern England which prints books in English and other languages which are intended for the Asian market.

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