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  1. Days of Hope (4 Parts) (1975 Video)

    Director
    Ken Loach
    Producer
    Tony Garnett
    Subject
    Drama; History
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 95, 100, 80, 135 min.

    A dramatised documentary series interpreting British labour history from a socialist angle. After depicting the plight of conscientious objectors in the First World War, and a significant sideways glance at...

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  2. National Youth Theatre (1966 Film)

    Director
    John Bloom; John Crome
    Subject
    Drama

    Documentary on the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain, giving the story of the company and showing them in rehearsal and in performance in London with a production of Coriolanus. Narrated by Michael Croft.

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  3. Khartoum (1966)

    Director
    Basil Dearden
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 136 minutes), £14.99

    In 1880s Sudan, thousands of British-led Egyptian troops are massacred by the forces of Arab fanatic Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier), who believes he is the Mahdi, and nothing less than Mohammed’s chosen...

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  4. Straw Poll (Radio)

    Subject
    Drama

    Radio debate series. Chairman Nick Clarke debates the motion ‘The Heritage Industry Distorts British History’ from the Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. Listeners are invited to telephone or...

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  5. Heterodyned History of Historical Events As They Might Have Been (Radio)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    No copy extant

    Radio revue written by L. du Garde Peach. Amongst the six notable events in British history that are subject to liberal reinterpretation by the Professor of History as It Might Have Been is the "Writing of...

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  6. For Brutus is a Real Cool Cat... (Television)

    Director
    Derek Bailey; Tony Palmer
    Producer
    Russell Harty
    Subject
    Drama

    Television magazine arts series. The programme includes a profile, by Tony Palmer, of Michael Croft’s National Youth Theatre. Over 400 young people from all over the country have been spending their...

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  7. Railways of the Great War

    aka: Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 145 minutes), £3.99

    Five part series, in which Conservative politician Michael Portillo marks the centenary of the Great War by discovering the central role the railways played in securing victory, repatriating the dead and...

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  8. Great British Railway Journeys: Series 1-4

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2784 minutes), £32.50

    In this 19-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw’s famous railway handbook, he retraces seventeen...

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  9. Great British Railway Journeys: Series 5-8

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2175 minutes), £35.99

    In this 15-disc set, Conservative politician Michael Portillo charts the great British romance with the railways. Armed with his copy of George Bradshaw’s famous railway handbook, he retraces seventeen...

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