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  1. Tom Stoppard: Radio Plays (2012)

    Director
    Charles Lefeaux; John Tydeman
    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 332 minutes), £40.00

    This five CD set collects the original BBC broadcasts of four of Tom Stoppard’s most important radio plays: ‘Albert’s Bridge’, ‘Artist Descending a Staircase’, ‘The Dog It Was That Died’ and...

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  2. Embers (1976)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    Katharine Worth
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution

    The radio play by Samuel Beckett.

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  3. Invasion from Mars: Or How Orson Welles Panicked a Nation (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Neil Cameron
    Subject
    Media studies; Psychology; Technology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    On 30 October 1938, the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre group enacted a version, by Howard Koch, of H.G. Wells, novel ‘War of the Worlds’. It was transmitted live at 8pm standard time throughout the USA on...

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  4. Troposcatter (1983)

    Director
    Chris Georgiou
    Subject
    Engineering
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocassette. U-matic, VHS. col. 20 min.

    Discusses offshore communications explaining the principle of troposcatter, discovered in 1933 by Marconi, which bounces radio waves off the troposphere, the lowest layer of the earth’s atmosphere. The...

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  5. Words and Music, By Samuel Beckett (1973 Audio)

    Director
    David R Clark
    Producer
    Katharine Worth
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Audiocassette. 25 min.

    Samuel Beckett’s work for radio, with music specially written for this performance by Humphrey Searle, and played by the Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer.

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  6. H.G. Wells: The Spoken Word (2006)

    Subject
    Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 73 minutes), £10.00

    This CD makes available for the first time all the surviving BBC radio broadcasts of H.G. Wells. The earliest dates from 1931, by which time Wells was already in his sixties and a renowned public figure,...

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  7. W.H. Auden: The Spoken Word (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 131 minutes), £16.00

    A 2-CD set of surviving BBC radio broadcasts of W.H. Auden, released to commemorate the centenary of the poet’s birth. Features sleeve notes by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate. The two discs feature Auden in...

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  8. Lady Windermere’s Fan / A Woman of No Importance (Audio) (2000 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    out of distribution, 2 audiocassettes. 175 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    Dramatisations of two of Oscar Wilde’s plays, ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance’.

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  9. Sun: Our Nearest Star, The (1981 Video)

    Subject
    Astronomy
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 12 min.

    At Culgoora, 650km north-west of Sydney, CSIRO scientists study the sun and its atmosphere, using both radio and optical instruments. The main optical instrument is a 30cm high-resolution telescope which is...

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  10. Bernard Shaw: The Spoken Word (2006)

    Subject
    Broadcasting; History; Literature; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD), £16.00

    George Bernard Shaw was a prominent figure in the early years of radio in Britain, and he used the medium to promote some of his more controversial views, making regular broadcasts over a period of almost 25...

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