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Six Plays by Alan Bennett (2017)

Director

Stephen Frears; Giles Foster; Lindsay Anderson

Producer

Stephen Frears

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 414 minutes), £17.35

This DVD collects six Alan Bennett plays produced by Stephen Frears. Frears himself directs four of the six plays, with the remaining two directed by Giles Foster and Lindsay Anderson. ME! I’M AFRAID OF...

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Frighteners, The (2017)

Director

Gareth Davies; Mike Hodges

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 390 minutes), £13.00

Television drama. This release consists of all 13 episodes of London Weekend Television’s 1972 anthology of half-hour psychological horror films. The release is the first in a range of DVDs presented by...

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Crunch and Other Stories, The: Three Plays by Nigel Kneale (2017)

Director

Michael Elliott; Roy Battersby; Herbert Wise

Subject

Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 158 minutes), £9.75

Television drama. Three plays written by Nigel Kneale for ITV. THE CRUNCH (1964) stars Harry Andrews as a prime minister attempting to avert a nuclear catastrophe in London; Maxwell Shaw, Anthony Bushell...

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Oral History of Media and Archaeology, An (2017)

Producer

Silas Michalakas

Subject

Archaeology; Television studies

Lecture given by Sir David Attenborough on 12 October 2009, at Cambridge University. Attenborough was speaking as part iof the ‘Personal Histories of Media and Archaeology’ oral history project. He...

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Eighties, The (2017)

Producer

Tom Hanks; Gary Goetzman; Mark Herzog

Subject

History; Social Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 344 minutes), £12.24

Produced by Emmy-award winning Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, ‘The Eighties’ is the third series in the acclaimed documentary strand chronicling American society and popular culture in the...

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Visions of Change: The Evolution of the British TV Documentary Vol. 1: BBC 1951-1967 (2016)

Subject

Broadcasting; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 382 minutes), £34.99

An extensive collection of television films made during the 1950s and 1960s, covering a range of topics, and including films by such influential directors as Denis Mitchell, Philip Donnellan, Ken Russell,...

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John Berger: The Art of Looking (2016)

aka: John Berger or the Art of Looking

Subject

Art

Distribution

Out of distribution

Film exploring the life and work of the late writer and art critic John Berger. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who has shaped our understanding of the concept of seeing.

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. I: Dissent (1969-1977) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 978 minutes), £69.99

This box set brings together all of the surviving standalone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1969- 1977, including such neglected classics as Horace, ‘Penda’s Fen’, ‘Diane’ and...

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Alan Clarke at the BBC: Vol. 2: Disruption (1978-1989) (2016)

aka: Dissent and Disruption: Alan Clarke at the BBC (1969-1989)

Director

Alan Clarke

Subject

Drama; Television studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 861 minutes), £69.99

This set brings together all of the surviving stand-alone BBC TV dramas that Alan Clarke directed between 1978-1989, including ‘Baal’ (starring David Bowie), ‘Contact’, ‘Road’ and...

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Parade’s End (1964) (2016)

Director

Alan Cooke

Producer

Cedric Messina

Subject

English language and literature

Judi Dench stars in this three-part adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novel sequence, which was originally broadcast by the BBC in 1964.

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