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Classic 1961 adaptation of Henry James’ ‘Turn of the Screw’, with Deborah Kerr as the governess who starts to see ghosts. DVD extras include: feature commentary and introduction by Professor...
Benjamin Britten’s opera based on the Henry James novel about a governess who discovers that the house in which she lives and works is haunted by the evil spirits of two former employees, and that her two...
Film adaptation of the novel by Charles Frazier about a couple separated by the Americal Civil War. Directed by Anthony Minghella
By any standards a remarkable poet, the fact that she lived in an age when poets were supposed to be men and any ideas contrary to the norm were outrages in the eyes of society, Emily Dickinson’s work is...
A documentary by Ken Burns, the fifth part of his PBS television series ‘American Lives’. Looks at the life and work of Mark Twain, using archival photography and interviews with writers including Russel...
Filmed on location in New York City, this video contains interviews with the present-day generation of Italian-Americans who discuss the social, cultural and historical issues within Arthur Miller’s...
Film based on the novel by Annie Proulx. An inksetter in New York returns with his daughter to his family’s home in a small fishing town in Newfoundland, after a traumatizing experience with her mother who...
Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Margaret Atwood, originally broadcast on 18 November 1996 as a Meridian feature on the BBC World Service. Margaret Atwood talks to Harriet Gould about: 1) the...
Extracts from two BBC radio interviews with Joseph Heller, In the first, originally broadcast on Radio 4’s WOMAN’S HOUR on 27/5/1980, Joseph Heller talks about: what the term Catch 22 means 0 min 41;...
Extracts from two radio interviews with American author and poet Alice Walker, whose poems and short stories typically depict the racism and sexism encountered by black women in America. Both broadcast in...
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