Learning on ScreenFive Authors
- Synopsis
- Five 25-minute programmes, each on an individual author, looking at one or more substantial texts and exploring the different ways in such works are written. Authors are Sylvia Plath (autobiography in selected poems), Dylan Thomas (the language of ‘Under Milk Wood’ and selected poems), Charles Dickens (filmic and musical interpretations of ‘Oliver Twist’), Maya Angelou (in performance and as autobiographer of ‘I know why the caged bird sings’), and Nadine Gordimer (the place and time of ‘July’s people’).
- Series
- English Programme, The, Series
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of production
- 1995
- Notes
- Broadcast on C4 from 12/5/96.
- Uses
- Ages 14 and up.
- Subjects
- English language and literature
- Keywords
- Angelou, Maya; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Gordimer, Nadine; literature - English; Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); poetry; Thomas, Dylan
Distribution Formats
- Type
- VHS
- Format
- PAL
- Price
- £19.99 (together)
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 5 x 25 minutes
- Year
- 2004
Production Company
- Name
Channel Four Television
- Phone
- 071-396 4444
- Address
- LONDON
SW1P 2TX
Distributor
- Name
4Learning
- sales@channel4learning.com
- Web
- http://www.channel4.com/learning/ External site opens in new window
- Notes
- Use for: Educational Television Company
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