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  1. New Town Utopia (2018)

    Director
    Christopher Ian Smith
    Subject
    Architecture; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £14.99

    After WW2, new towns were designed as social utopias to create (in the words of the post-war government) "a new type of citizen, a healthy, self-respecting, dignified person with a sense of beauty, culture...

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  2. Tales out of School: Four Films by David Leland (2011)

    Director
    Alan Clarke; Edward Bennett; Jane Howell; Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama; Education
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £14.40

    This anthology brings together the four films written by David Leland and screened originally in 1983 - the films are: BIRTH OF A NATION, FLYING INTO THE WIND, R.H.I.N.O. and MADE IN BRITAIN, all of which...

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  3. Richard III (1996) (1995 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Loncraine
    Producer
    Lisa Katselas Pare; Stephen Bayly
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.99

    Film version of Shakespeare’s play derived from Richard Eyre’s National Theatre production. Set in a context of 1930s’ fascism, where Mosley’s troops have taken power.

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  4. Life is Sweet (1990 Video)

    Director
    Mike Leigh
    Producer
    Simon Channing-Williams
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    DVD

    A comedy following four days in the life of a working-class family as they interact and play out family conflict and love.

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  5. Prs: The Movie (1989 Video)

    Subject
    Law; Music
    Distribution
    Free loan, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., Free loan

    A humorous approach in explaining the work of the Performing Rights Society and why such an organisation is essential to creators of music.

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  6. Birth of a Nation (1982 Video)

    Director
    Mike Newell
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £30

    A play made for television that looks at the conflict between the old, authoritarian methods of school teaching and the more relaxed methods favoured by progressive teachers. Features an idealistic master...

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  7. Late Mr Shakespeare, The (Radio)

    Producer
    Jeremy Mortimer
    Subject
    Drama

    Radio play. Actor Robert Reynolds, known as Pickleherring, reminisces about his life as a boy actor in Shakespeare’s company, in Jonathan Broadbent’s adaptation of Robert Nye’s novel.

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  8. Theatre of Blood (Video)

    Director
    Phelim McDermott

    Video recording of the National Theatre, London’s 2005 production of Theatre of Blood directed by Phelim McDermott with Jim Broadbent as Edward Lionheart. A stage adaptation of the 1973 Douglas Hickox film...

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  9. King Lear (Television)

    Director
    Richard Eyre
    Producer
    Noëlette Buckley
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    In an alternative present, England is ruled by a military dictator, King Lear (Anthony Hopkins). In deciding upon his successor, Lear makes the mistake of being swayed by the flattery of his perspective...

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