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  1. Lifestory: A Double Helix (1987 Video)

    aka: Life Story

    Director
    Mick Jackson
    Subject
    Biology; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 107 min., 2007 sale: £195.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the race to discover the structure of DNA from 1951 to Francis Crick and James Watson’s discovery of the double helix in 1953.

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  2. Oedipus at Colonus (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS/NTSC. col. 120 min.

    Tells the story of Oedipus, now old, blind and outcast, wandering through Greece, guided by his daughter Antigone to Colonus, where he knows he will die.

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  3. Antigone (1986)

    Director
    Don Taylor
    Subject
    Classical studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 110 minutes), $7.49 (MediaOutlet)

    A modern translation by Don Taylor of Sophacles’ tragedy depicting the individual conscience in conflict with tyranny. Antigone (Juliet Stevenson), the daughter of Oedipus, defies a royal edict when one of...

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  4. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984) (1984 Television, Video)

    aka: The Shakespeare Plays

    Director
    David Jones
    Producer
    Shaun Sutton
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 275 minutes), £12.99

    Television production with Mike Gwilym (Pericles) and Amanda Redman (Marina).

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  5. Girls Who Are Boys (Television)

    Producer
    Tony Coe
    Subject
    Drama

    Cross-dressing and ambiguous sexuality in Shakespeare’s plays is discussed by actresses Fiona Shaw and Juliet Stevenson and director Deborah Warner. Follows the progress of a theatre workshop on the...

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  6. Shakespeare - Or What You Will (Television)

    aka: Dark Horses: Shakespeare - Or What You Will

    Director
    Isabel McIver
    Subject
    Drama

    Television documentary on Shakespeare and homosexuality presented by Simon Callow. Includes extracts from Coriolanus (IV v ‘O Marcius, Marcius!') and Othello (III iii ‘I lay with Cassio lately’) spoken...

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  7. Shylock (Radio)

    Director
    David Hitchinson
    Producer
    David Hitchinson
    Subject
    Drama

    Set in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, 1563, and narrated from Shylock’s perspective, this rewriting of Shakespeare’s play by British playwright Arnold Wesker retains the core plot of Shakespeare’s play...

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  8. Interpretations. Part 1 (Radio)

    Producer
    Lucy Lunt
    Subject
    Drama

    BBC Radio 4 three-part conversation series that examines how different artists reach their own interpretation of a particular work. In episode two, Juliet Stevenson and Nina Sosenya discuss the phenomena of...

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  9. Desmond Olivier Dingle’s Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare by Desmond Oliver Dingle: Episode 2 (Radio)

    Producer
    Liz Anstee
    Subject
    Drama

    Second episode of a six-part comedy series about the world of Shakespeare. Desmond and Company attempt to tackle Shakespeare’s verse and perform Julius Caesar. They are helped by guest stars Juliet...

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  10. Measure for Measure Live from the Globe (Television)

    Director
    Janet Fraser Cook
    Subject
    Drama

    Television production of the play live from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Directed for stage by John Dove and for television by Janet Fraser Cook. Presented by Andrew Marr and with comment from historian...

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