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  1. Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman (2012)

    Director
    Neil Crombie
    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £12.50

    Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambitious show yet: The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman. Given free rein to choose whatever he wants from the...

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  2. Arthur Miller (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £195.00

    Alan Yentob interviews Arthur Miller about his life and career. Miller talks about his New York upbringing and the Great Depression’s effects upon him, then discusses the McCarthy witch-hunt trials and his...

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  3. Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact (1985 Film, Video)

    Director
    Michael Blackwood
    Producer
    Alan Yentob
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Filmed entirely in the small studio in Chelsea where Francis Bacon lived from 1961, the artist speaks candidly and informally with David Sylvester about his life and work.

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  4. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Alabama 40 Years on (1979 Film)

    Director
    Carol Bell
    Producer
    Alan Yentob
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) travelled south to Alabama. They lived with a family of poor white white farmers...

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  5. Being Hamlet (Television)

    Director
    Rupert Edwards
    Producer
    Rupert Edwards
    Subject
    Drama

    Television anthology arts series. Alan Yentob presents a documentary about three actors who are preparing to play Hamlet. Welsh actor Wayne Cater is directed by Michael Bogdanov for the Wales Theatre...

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  6. New King Lear, A (Television)

    Director
    Alan Yentob
    Producer
    Barrie Gavin
    Subject
    Drama

    A BBC topical arts magazine series. This episode includes an interview with Edward Bond, who talks about his play Lear that premiered the same week with Harry Andrews in the title role. Bond states that his...

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  7. Orson Welles Story, The (Television)

    Producer
    Alan Yentob; Leslie Megahey
    Subject
    Drama

    Two-part television documentary on Orson Welles. In the first part, which covers his career in America, Welles talks to interviewer Alan Yentob about MACBETH (1948) saying it was a B-picture quickie. He...

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  8. Hands off the Classics (Television)

    Producer
    Dennis Marks; Alan Yentob
    Subject
    Drama

    Anthology arts series. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was censored and in the 18th century Tate gave King Lear a happy ending. The programme debates the line between interpretation and vandalism.

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  9. Shylock’s Ghost (Television)

    Director
    Colette Camden
    Subject
    Drama

    Documentary. Alan Yentob travels to the ghetto in Venice with novelist Howard Jacobson as he embarks on a retelling of The Merchant of Venice. Through a series of interviews, they examine the charge of...

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