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  1. Great War Diaries (2014)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 440 minutes), £24.99

    Using a mixture of re-enacted scenes, archive footage and animation, this documentary series looks into the lives of the men and women who wrote about their experiences of the First World War in journals and...

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  2. Travel Writers: The Spoken Word (2012)

    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 150 minutes), £16.00

    This 2 CD compilation features some of best-known literary adventures and explorers of the 20th century in their own words. The recordings are a mixture of radio broadcasts and live talks and readings. None...

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  3. Writing for Games: Debate (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies

    Audio recording of a discussion held at BAFTA on 28/10/2011. Which techniques can be adapted from film, TV and other media to make characters and stories in video games more engaging, and which need radical...

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  4. Iain Banks in Conversation with the Open University (2011)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Author Iain Banks talks to Open University Lecturer in Creative Writing Derek Neale about the digitisation of books, his writing process, the impact of world events on his work and much more. (45 minutes)

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  5. Beautiful Sentence (2011)

    Director
    Suzanne Cohen
    Subject
    Literature; Social Studies

    Female prisoners experience the liberating effect of creative writing with the help of inspirational poet Leah Thorn, writer-in-residence at HMP Bronzefield, a high security women’s prison in Middlesex....

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  6. Communication Essentials Series (4 Parts) (2010)

    Subject
    Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 4 x 22 minutes), £59.00 each part;£199.00 (series)

    This four-part series helps students improve their communication skills in four critical areas: listening, speaking, writing, and reading. Viewers are challenged to improve their habits and aim for several...

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  7. Robert Graves: The Spoken Word (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 68 minutes), £10.00

    Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...

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  8. Speaking in Tongues: The History of Language (5 Parts) (2009)

    Subject
    Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 250 minutes ), $599.95 (set)

    Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies, while evaluating the scope...

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  9. Obscene - A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press (2009)

    Director
    Neil Ortenberg; Daniel O’Connor
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £19.99

    OBSCENE is the definitive film biography of Barney Rosset, the influential publisher of Grove Press and the Evergreen Review. He acquired the then fledgling Grove Press in 1951 and soon embarked on a...

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  10. Narrating Modernity: Writers of the Mid 20th Century (2008)

    Director
    Eliseo AÌ lavarez
    Subject
    Languages; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 50 minutes), £118.24

    The mid-20th century was an era of large-scale and often tragically violent political shifts which completely changed the face of Latin American life and art. As this programme demonstrates, the rise of...

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