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Ted Hughes Dreamtime (2015)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £9.99

Ted Hughes was one of the major poets of his generation. His older brother Gerald Hughes wrote a memoir of their relationship called ‘Ted and I’. The two brothers were close all their lives. This DVD is...

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Antony and Cleopatra (1964 Radio)

Series

Cbc Sunday Night

Director

Gerald Newman

A CBC recording of Antony and Cleopatra produced as part of the CBC Radio Adaptations series. Adapted by Donald Erikson with sound effects by George Laverock. Joy Coghill as Cleopatra and Peter Haworth as...

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Rose Theatre preservation (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

From Westminster, Paul Rowley reports on the proposals to preserve the remains of the Elizabethan Rose Theatre in Southwark, London which is being denied ancient monument status. Includes Commons speeches...

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Interview with Councillor Gerald Hughes; Schools cruise row (1981)

Cruise row February 1981. Track 1- Gerald Hughes interviewed on his return; Track 2- Coope voicer on row back home; Track 3- Councillor Hughes on ship to shore from SS Uganda; Track 4- Coope on Hughes return...

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Councillor Hughes resigns following controversy over a schools cruise (1981)

The man at the centre of the Mediterranean Cruise Row has resigned as chairman of Berkshire’s Education Committee. Gerald Hughes was severely censured in a top level report published last week which had...

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General Election- South-East London results (1992)

Genre

Election coverage; Interview; News report

Havovi Todd reports on the results in South-East London during the 1992 UK General Election. Includes recordings of results from Dulwich, Peckham, Southwark with statements by candidates: Gerry Bowden...

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Political review of the year (1995)

Genre

Discussion; Documentary; Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Press conference; Speech

Political review of the year, 1995. In 4 parts with breaks in recording. Part 1: report by Max Cotton on the challenge to UK Prime Minister, John Major as leader of the Conservative Party by John Redwood....

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Hermione (1926 Radio)

Series

Shakespeare’s Heroines

Eleventh in a series of short dramatic recitals in which well-known actresses perform extracts from Shakespeare’s plays. With Lilian Braithwaite as Hermione performing extracts from The Winter’s Tale I...

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Merchant of Venice (1972 Television)

Series

Play of the Month

Director

Cedric Messina

Producer

Gerald Savory

Televised adaptation of the play in which the mise en scene was inspired by Italian Renaissance art, a practice which subsequently distinguished director Cedric Messina’s productions for the BBC Television...

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Six Centuries of Verse (1984 Video)

Series looking at the poetry of the past six centuries. 1: Establishes the continuity and variety of English verse throughout the past six centuries using extracts from poems, with readings from Chaucer,...

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