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  1. Wired for Books: Anthony Burgess (1985)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Best known for his novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess talks about being told by his doctor in 1959 that he had a fatal brain tumor and only had a year to live. That was when Burgess became a...

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  2. Wedding in Soho

    Date released
    18 Feb 1957
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1446
    NoS ID
    021508
    Story no
    5 / 6

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Wedding in Soho. DESCRIPTION: Soho Square; at St Patrick’s Church, Miss Nell Dunn arrived for her Valentine’s Day wedding. The bridegroom was 26 year old Jeremy Sandford, a writer....

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  3. Sherlock Holmes and London (1981)

    Genre
    Feature; Special

    An exploration of the historical context and characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. With contributions from H.R.F. Keating, crime fiction writer; Sir Hugh Green, writer and...

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  4. World at War, The. Vol 3 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Michael Darlow; John Pett
    Producer
    Michael Darlow; John Pett; Ben Shephard; Phillip Whitehead
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

    Part 1: The Anglo-American advance from Sicily as the Big Three meet (producer Ben Shephard, writer David Wheeler). Part 2: The Burma campaign. Depicts the differing Japanese and Western attitudes towards...

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  5. Thatcher on international relations and foreign affairs (1981)

    Genre
    Special; Speech

    Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gives a speech at the Diplomatic and Commonwealth Writer’s Association dinner on its 21st anniversary. The president of the association (not identified) speaks about their...

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  6. Mongane Serote with Edward Blishen (1986 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Mongane Serote, the South African writer and poet, discusses the effect of the political situation in South Africa on his writing, and on writers in general. He also comments on his own progression as a...

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  7. Thousand Pound Wager!

    Date released
    6 Dec 1962
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1748A
    NoS ID
    024909
    Story no
    4 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Thousand Pound Wager!. DESCRIPTION: A Lotus won £1000 from German sports writer Richard von Frankenburg. He claimed that the Lotus which won the Formula Junior Race at Monza this year...

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  8. World at War, The. Vol 2 (6 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Director
    Ted Childs; Hugh Raggett; Martin Smith
    Producer
    Peter Batty; Ted Childs; Martin Smith
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w/col. 6 x 52 min.

    1 DESERT - THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA 1940-1943 - North Africa, the battle of El Alamein and Operation Torch (producer/writer Peter Batty). 2: Stalingrad, the symbol of the Soviet Union’s stubborn resistance,...

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  9. Chinua Achebe with Nuruddin Farah (1986)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in conversation with Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. They discuss Achebe’s sense of identity - African and Nigerian, the question of language in a multicultural society,...

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  10. Wired for Books: Graham Swift (1985)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Graham Swift, author of The Light of Day, Waterland, and Ever After, journeys from London, England to visit New York for the first time. He is a fortunate writer in that he is a full time writer and does...

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