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Roots (1992 Video)

Director

Simon Curtis

Producer

Simon Curtis

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 105 min., 1999 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

A television version of Arnold Wesker’s play, written in 1959, about the liberating power of education and the awakening of self-identity. Set in the feudal farming community of 1950s’ Norfolk, Beattie...

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In a Questionable Shape (2006 Radio)

aka: Daunt and Dervish

Series

Afternoon Play

Director

Colin Guthrie

Producer

Colin Guthrie

Radio detective series. In this episode, the Daunt and Dervish Detective Agency is involved in a case of blackmail that takes Josephine and Susan back to the Old Vic Theatre and its current production of...

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Friday Gateway updates

Date

4 Nov 2011, 12:35

Author

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Post Type

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The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,000 websites relating to moving image and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please...

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Cranford (2008)

Director

Sue Birtwistle; Susie Conkin

Subject

Drama; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

A television adaptation of three Elizabeth Gaskell novels: ‘Cranford’, ‘My Lady Ludlow’, and ‘Mr Harrison’s Confessions’ the story follows the small absurdities and major tragedies in the lives...

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Comrades (1986)

Director

Bill Douglas

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 175 minutes), £22.99

Bill Douglas’s historical drama depicts the story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs: six agricultural labourers from Dorset who were transported to Australia for swearing an unlawful oath, as they gathered together...

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Bunch of Amateurs, A (2008 Film)

Director

Andy Cadiff

Producer

David Parfitt

Feature film comedy. Ageing Hollywood star (Burt Reynolds) signs up to play the title role in King Lear in Britain to revive his flagging career. He believes the role is part of a Royal Shakespeare Company...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2005 Television, Video)

aka: Shakespeare Re-Told Shakespeare Retold

Series

Shakespeare-Told

Director

Ed Fraiman

Producer

Pier Wilkie

A modern television version of Shakespeare’s play with contemporary dialogue. The comedy is transferred to the Dream Park holiday centre where Theo and Polly have come to celebrate their daughter’s...

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Much Ado About Nothing (1993 Film, Video)

Director

Kenneth Branagh

Producer

David Parfitt

Lavish and festive feature film adaptation of the play set in Tuscany and using a British and pan-American cast. Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation is ‘full of sunny high spirits and still terrific fun to...

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Twelfth Night (1996 Film)

Director

Trevor Nunn

Producer

Stephen Evans; David Parfitt

An intelligent and meditative interpretation emphasising class distinctions and sexual confusion, which ‘has dated better than most...and which captures the shadowy magic of the play well’ (The Guardian...

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Shakespeare in Love (1998 Film, Video)

Director

John Madden

Producer

David Parfitt; Harvey Weinstein; Marc Norman; Edward Zwick; Donna Gigliotti

Feature film. A comic drama in which William Shakespeare is portrayed as a young writer who is struggling financially and, envious of a rival, meets an aspiring actress who dresses as a boy to work in...

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