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Wired for Books: Margaret Atwood (1986)

Subject

Literature

Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Cats’ Eye, talks to Don Swaim in 1986 about growing up in the Canadian forests, her novels, her thoughts about religion and human rights, and why she...

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Margaret Atwood (1985)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

Margaret Atwood, in conversation with with Hermione Lee at the ICA discusses: Themes of women ‘breaking out’ ; Visual imagery as inspiration; Literature informed by fairy tales; Writing as a woman...

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Margaret Atwood -BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/atwoodm1.shtml Online

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Margaret Atwood, originally broadcast on 18 November 1996 as a Meridian feature on the BBC World Service. Margaret Atwood talks to Harriet Gould about: 1) the...

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Handmaid’s Tale, The (1990)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1, 109 minutes), $19.98

A film version of the book by Margaret Atwood. The end of the 20th Century finds a repressed society run by puritans and the majority of women barren. Under this new regime fertile women are handmaids and...

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Virago: Changing the World One Page at a Time (2016)

Director

Clare Whalley

Subject

Literature; Women’s studies

Documentary telling the story of publishing house Virago Press, which dared to set itself apart to champion women’s literature in an industry dominated in the 1970s by men. [59 minutes]

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Stem Cell Revolutions (2011)

aka: Stem Cell Revolutions for Educational Use

Director

Amy Hardie; Clare Blackburn

Subject

Biology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 71 minutes), £95.00

Documentary charting the history and scientific evolution of stem cell research - from the earliest experiments that first revealed stem cells in the body, to leading current scientific and clinical...

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Passwords: Poets and Poetry from the Neab Anthology

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 5 x 25 minutes), £19.99 together

The series features selected poets and poems from the NEAB GCSE English Language and Literature Anthology. Programmes 1-3 on Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Ted Hughes feature the poets themselves and...

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