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  1. In Conversation with D M Thomas: The Novelist and the Therapist (1996 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 59 min., 1997 sale: £49.95 (inclusive) 1997 sale: £200.00 (inclusive) set of 5

    D M Thomas, author of ‘The White Hotel’, talks to Michael Jacobs. The novel is about one of Freud’s patients and combines the themes of love and death. The book raises questions about the relationship...

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  2. Jane Eyre (1996 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2004 sale: £29.95 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    An introduction to ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847), including dramatised interpretation, period images, biographical details, and analysis of characters and text. Covers plot development; the relationship between...

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  3. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (337 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £125.00 BBC Learning)

    A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...

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  4. Middlemarch (1994)

    Director
    Anthony Page
    Producer
    Louis Marks
    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 375 minutes), £24.99 (retail)

    George Eliot’s saga of love, disillusionment and blackmail in 19th-century England, adapted by Andrew Davies. Dorothea misguidedly marries the Rev. Edward Casaubon, whilst Dr Lydgate finds his ideals...

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  5. In the Market Place (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Charles Cooper
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses the commercial conditions which effect the writing, publishing and selling of literature in the context of novelist Jeanette Winterson’s experiences as a successful young writer who recently...

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  6. Original Alice, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    Clive Izard
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

    Filmed on location around Christ Church, Oxford, where Lewis Carroll lived most of his life, and in the British Library where his manuscripts and papers are held. Traces the Alice story from the original...

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  7. P D James with a S Byatt (1988 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 45 min.

    Discusses P D James’ development as a writer, the structure of her books, and the serious issues which underlie them - loneliness, isolation, guilt, death, redemption.

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  8. Ian McEwan with Martin Amis (1987)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Ian McEwan gives several lengthy readings from his novel ‘A Child in Time’ after a short introduction to his work by Martin Amis.

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  9. Chinua Achebe with Nuruddin Farah (1986)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 40 minutes), £89.00 or free online

    Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe in conversation with Somali writer Nuruddin Farah. They discuss Achebe’s sense of identity - African and Nigerian, the question of language in a multicultural society,...

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  10. Janice Shinebourne and Beryl Gilroy with Susheila Nasta (1986 Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 40 min.

    Janice Shinebourne and Beryl Gilroy are each interviewed separately. Janice Shinebourne discusses her Guyanese background, the influence of the landscape, social conditions, her family on her writing - and...

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