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  1. Fry’s Planet Word (2012 Television)

    Director
    John-Paul Davidson
    Producer
    John-Paul Davidson
    Subject
    English language and literature; Languages; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    In this five-part, BBC television series renowned polymath and wordsmith Stephen Fry investigates how language has played a crucial role in human evolution. He travels the world to learn the history of...

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  2. Great Expectations (2011) (2012)

    Director
    Brian Kirk
    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

    Lavish BBC production of Dickens’ classic tale starring Douglas Booth as Pip, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and David Suchet as Jaggers.

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  3. Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 177 minutes), £15.00

    A three-part television series in which art historian Dr Janina Ramirez tells the story of the Medieval monarchy as revealed through illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts...

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  4. Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (2012 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 75), £10.00

    Audio CD featuring speeches and scenes performed as Shakespeare might have heard them. Under the guidance of Ben Crystal, actor and expert in original Shakespearean pronunciation in performance, a company of...

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  5. Tom Stoppard: Radio Plays (2012)

    Director
    Charles Lefeaux; John Tydeman
    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 332 minutes), £40.00

    This five CD set collects the original BBC broadcasts of four of Tom Stoppard’s most important radio plays: ‘Albert’s Bridge’, ‘Artist Descending a Staircase’, ‘The Dog It Was That Died’ and...

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  6. Britten: War Requiem (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £29.99

    2012 sees the 50th anniversary of Britten’s War Requiem and the building it was written for, Coventry Cathedral. The work combines the words of the Latin Mass for the Dead and poems by the First World War...

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  7. Celebrating Dickens (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    This documentary, presented by Professor John Mee, explores the life and career of Charles Dickens in his various guises: the author, the public performer, the philanthropist, the celebrity, the boy and the...

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  8. Search for D.H. Lawrence, The (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Video of Emeritus Professor John Worthen in conversation with Dr Andrew Harrison, Director of the University of Nottingham’s D. H. Lawrence Research, discussing the question of Lawrence and biography in...

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  9. Many Lovers of Jane Austen, The (2012)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £9.89

    Historian Amanda Vickery traces the rise in popularity of Jane Austen, from a little-read Regency novelist to a global brand.

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  10. Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimer’s (2012)

    Director
    Charlie Russell
    Subject
    English language and literature; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £8.95

    Novelist Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 2009. This programme follows this progress in coming to terms with his diagnosis, living with his condition, facing the certainty of its...

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