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During 1999 and 2000 all 19 of Samuel Beckett’s stage plays were filmed for television, and brought together a distinguished range of directors and actors. This tape combines OHIO IMPROMPTU, ROUGH FOR...
Three videos each containing four 25-minute programmes exploring the great diversity of English verse from the age of Chaucer to the present day. Traces the development of English verse through the ages,...
A series of six programmes, filmed entirely from helicopter, showing key sites and how the landscape of Britain has evolved over 2000 years. Each of the six units covers a key period.
BREATH (d. Damien Hurst, 1 min.). Written in 1969 in response to Kenneth Tynan’s request for a sketch to be included in ‘Oh Calcutta’. The most compressed of Beckett’s works, lasting less than a...
All 19 of Samuel Beckett’s plays have been filmed for film and television in this series, some of them for the first time. Eight of them are being shown in the 4 Learning schedule and are available for...
Four programmes for German teaching illustrating life in contemporary Germany. Each includes interviews that are subtitled in German. Topics include jobs, city portraits, fashion, music, social issues and...
Gregory Doran’s film of his modern dress RSC production which opened at the Swan Theatre in 1999. This video version was specially shot for television broadcast at the London Roundhouse, using the original...
Disc 2: Discovery - Into Deep Space. 14) Space Frontier: human space exploration; 15) High Life: living and working in space; 16) Where Next?; 17) Breakthrough!: astronomy and astronomers - Copernicus,...
A two-part unit of five programmes which exploits the appeal of box office hits to deliver ingredients for serious media analysis. The first three programmes which form part 1 go behind the scenes of the...
Three programmes presenting historical film in context. 1: Explores how British films in the 1930s promoted the cause of Empire, and how the 1940s documentary and newsreel films began to express an...
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