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  1. Colette (195 Film)

    Director
    Yannik Bellon
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The life of the writer as seen through her successive houses. The film ends with a conversation between Colette and Jean Cocteau. French/English commentary.

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  2. Failed Channel 5 bid for Thames Television (1992)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the failure of Thames Television, sole applicant, to gain the franchise to run a fifth television channel. Independent Television Commission Chairman Sir George Russell explains why they didn’t...

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  3. Matthews Meets Irene Handl, actress and writer (1987)

    At this time on a Wednesday evening you would normally be listening to SHOWCASE, 210 s Arts and Entertainment programme. But tonight we have a special tribute to that grand old lady of British stage and...

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  4. Death of Alan Paton (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Obituary

    South African writer Alan Paton died this morning at the age of eighty-five of cancer at his home near Durban. He was best known as the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, first published forty years...

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  5. P D James with a S Byatt (1988 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

    Discusses P D James’ development as a writer, the structure of her books, and the serious issues which underlie them - loneliness, isolation, guilt, death, redemption.

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  6. Celebrity interview (1988)

    aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Molly Weir

    An interview with the actress and writer Molly Weir.

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  7. Richard Knox on British nuclear safety (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Richard Knox, writer for Nuclear Engineering International magazine, on whether an accident similar to that which happened at Three Mile Island in the United States could happen in the United Kingdom. Knox...

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  8. Brian Hayes show (1978)

    Genre
    Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in; Advertisement

    The Brian Hayes Show with writer Alan Sillitoe on his life and writing. Richard Nixon is due to visit the Oxford Union, few ITV stations are showing the debate, asks if people want to see it or not, callers...

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  9. Samuel Beckett - Reading in English (198)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Cassette, 50 minutes), £11.00

    Relates the writer to dramatic tradition and to his society. The plays are approached as theatrical experience as well as literary texts, using readings to illuminate questions of theme and style. A...

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  10. Hayes on Sunday (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Hayes on Sunday. Brian Hayes speaks to Anthony Burgess, about his dystopian novel, 1985; writer Bernard Nossiter, about his more optimistic view of the future; journalist John Pilger, about Vietnam today.

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