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Chasing Perfect (2019)

Director

Helena Colan

Subject

Design; Transport

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 91 minutes), £15.99

Documentary about Frank Stephenson, design director of some of Ferrari’s and McLaren’s most iconic cars. The film tracks through Frank’s ground-breaking designs and the story behind them. From high-end...

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Shakespeare Project, The (2019 Audio)

Subject

Music; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD Download, 45 minutes)

Jazz album with song set to Shakespeare’s words, performed by Deborah Shulman. It combines older arrangements by Billy Strayhorn and Johnny Dankworth with new material by Shulman and pianist Jeff Colella....

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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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Hamlet (2019 Video)

Director

Francois Roussillon

Subject

Drama; Music; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 171 minutes), £30

Recording of a production of Ambroise Thomas’ 1868 opera in five acts starring Stéphane Degout in the title role and Sabine Devieilhe as Ophelia. Sung in French, it features the Orchestre des...

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Merry Wives of Windsor, The (2019 Video)

Director

Fiona Laird

Subject

Drama; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 146 minutes), £20

Live recording of this moderrn-day production by Fiona Laird.

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Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words (2019 Television)

Director

Michael Nunn

Subject

Dance; Drama; Music; Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 91 minutes (plus 53 minutes extras)), £18.99 (DVD); £22.99 (Blu-ray)

Feature-length adaptation of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s version of the Prokofiev ballet starring William Bracewell as Romeo, Francesca Hayward as Juliet with members of The Royal Ballet. Shakespeare’s story...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2018 Video)

Director

Emma Rice; Ian Russell

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 171 minutes), £18.99

Video recording of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre’s 2016 staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Emma Rice. Ex-cabaret performer Meouw Meouw is Titania/Hippolyta. The DVD release, directed for...

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King Lear (2018 Video)

Director

Bridget Caldwell; Michael Buffong

Producer

Caroline Roberts-Cherry

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 183 minutes), £17.99

Stage to screen film of the Talawa Theatre Company’s production of King Lear staged at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in 2016. Don Warrington is Lear. Directed for stage by Michael Buffong and for screen...

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RSC Live 2018: Twelfth Night (2018 Video)

Director

Christopher Luscombe

Producer

John Wyver

Subject

Shakespeare

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 144), £17.99

Two twins, a shipwreck and unrequieted love are the key ingredients in Shakespeare’s acclaimed comedy, ‘Twelfth Night’ in a production set in the 1890s featuring Adrian Edmondson as Malvolio.

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Power to the People: British Music Videos 1966-2016 (2018)

aka: British Music Video 1966-2016

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £32.99

This DVD collection, which contains 200 of the most influential music videos produced in Britain, is the result of a three-year university research project in partnership with the British Library and the...

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