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  1. Gentleman Jack (2019)

    Subject
    Literature; Television studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 465 minutes), £12.00

    TV adaptation of Anne Lister’s diaries. Halifax, Yorkshire, 1832. Charismatic, Anne Lister determines to transform the fate of her ancestral home Shibden Hall. To do this, she must re-open her coal mines...

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  2. Adapting Shakespeare (2017 Audio)

    aka: Adapting Shakespeare

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Drama

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. What exactly counts as a Shakespeare adaptation? And why bother in the first place? The podcast talks to three writers who have wrestled with these questions....

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  3. Leonard Bernstein and Westside Story (2017 Audio)

    aka: Juliet Appears Above, At a Window

    Subject
    Shakespeare; Social sciences

    As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...

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  4. To Be, Or Not to Be ‘Hamlet’ (2017 Audio)

    Subject
    Film studies

    Following his new stage production of Hamlet at The Old Globe in San Diego, Beth Accomando interviews the theatre’s artistic director, Barry Edelstein to explore how his interpretation compares with...

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  5. Frankenstein: The True Story (2014)

    Director
    Jack Smight
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 181 minutes), £15.99

    This made-for- television film, which was first broadcast in 1973, was co-scripted by Christoper Isherwood, and features a heavyweight cast, including John Gielgud, James Mason and Ralph Richardson. Less...

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  6. Tess (2013)

    Director
    Roman Polanski
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 164 minutes), £19.99

    Restoration of Roman Polanski’s acclaimed 1979 adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. This is the first time that TESS has been available in High Definition. Nastassja Kinski...

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  7. Crime and Punishment (2013)

    aka: Prestuplenie I Nakazanie

    Director
    Lev Kulidzhanov
    Subject
    Languages; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 221 minutes), £24.99

    1969 film adaptation of Dostoevsky’s novel. The Ruscico DVD release is a three disc set which includes the fifty minute on-set documentary A FEW DAYS OF ONE FILM. The release includes English language...

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  8. North and South (2013)

    Director
    Brian Percival
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

    1975 television adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s novel starring Patrick Stewart and Rosalie Shanks.

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  9. Schalcken the Painter (2013)

    Director
    Leslie Megahey
    Subject
    Art; Literature; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £19.99

    Based on the short story ‘Strange Event in the Life of Schalcken the Painter’ by Sheridan Le Fanu, this programme was originally shown in the Omnibus strand on BBC 2 during Christmas 1979. The story...

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  10. Parade’s End (2012)

    Director
    Susanna White
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 287 minutes), £24.99

    Tom Stoppard’s adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel tells the story of English aristocrats Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens. As the decadence of the Edwardian era makes way for the destruction of the...

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