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Lionel Gamlin (Courtesy of the BBC) Tells the Story of Britain’s August week-end: Uniforms Take a Holiday

Date released

6 Aug 1942

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

687A

NoS ID

012386

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cricket at Lord’s. DESCRIPTION: CRICKET - At Lord’s thousands turned out to watch a combined Middlesex/Essex side play Kent/Surrey. SHOTLIST: The Cricket at Lord’s, was between...

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Sahib, The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914 (2006)

Subject

History; Military Science

Audio recording of a lecture given by military historian Professor Richard Holmes, examining Indian soldiering in peace and war. He addresses the experience of ordinary soldiers, why they joined up, how...

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Hamlet (2020 Video)

Series

Shakespeare’s Globe

Director

Elle While; Federay Holmes

Recording of the Globe Theatre 2018 gender fluid production of Hamlet directed by Federay Holmes and Elle While. With Michelle Terry in the title role. The recording is directed for Opus Arte by Ian Russell.

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Coleridge biography wins Whitbread Book of the Year (1990)

Genre

Biography; Interview; News report; Speech

Camilla Affleck reports on Richard Holmes’s biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge: Early Visions - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes Holmes reading from his book and talking...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.45: Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 45 Programme 45 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 30 August 1987. Presented by GUY HORNSBY....

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Media Screen Roundup - July 2013

Date

19 Aug 2013, 11:37

Author

Linda

Post Type

Post

With the new BBC series Sherlock imminent and the revelation of the new Doctor Who, it seems appropriate that these two icons of British popular culture are presented in the latest Roundup. Sherlock and his...

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Farmer on war and intimidation of workers in Rhodesia (1978)

Genre

Interview

Rhodesian tobacco farmer Richard Holmes, discusses the war and the intimidation of farm workers in the country. Interview covers the location of land mines around the farm and the fact that farm workers are...

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Nurses’ walkout - Parliament protest (1988)

Genre

Interview; News report; Press conference

Richard Bestic reports from Westminster on protests relating to the dispute involving nurses and other NHS staff over NHS funding and wages. Includes press interviews with protesting nurse, Anne(?) Holmes;...

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Darkening Years (1981 Film)

Director

Richard Carter

Producer

Andrew Holmes; Richard Melling

Subject

Medical sciences

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Reconstruction of a case history based on a GP’s own experience of nine years of increasingly severe eye disease. After the diagnosis of glaucoma, the film follows the progression of the disease until only...

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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (2003)

Producer

Harvey Lilley; Georgina Harvey; Colin Thomas

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 200 minutes), £780.00

In this four part series, historian Richard Holmes gives a revisionist account of what he calls America’s first civil war. The popular view is that the War of Independence was the American people’s...

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