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  1. To Walk Invisible (2017)

    Director
    Sally Wainwright
    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.99

    Sally Wainwright writes and directs this one-off British television drama which follows the lives of renowned authors the Brontë sisters. Set in 1840s Yorkshire, sisters Anne (Charlie Murphy), Charlotte...

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  2. Aberfan: The Green Hollow (2016)

    Subject
    Literature

    A film poem commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, performed by Michael Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Sian Phillips, Eve Myles and Iwan Rheon. [60 minutes]

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  3. Patience (After Sebald) (2011)

    Director
    Grant Gee
    Subject
    History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 86 minutes), £15.99

    Film essay based on the work and life of German writer W.G. Sebald, with particular reference to his book The Rings of Saturn, a melancholy and atmospheric account of a walking tour of Suffolk, in which...

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  4. Essential Shakespeare Live Encore, The (2009)

    Director
    Peter Hall; Trevor Nunn; John Barton; Adrian Noble; Sam Mendes; Michael Boyd; Gregory Doran; Peter Brook; Bill Alexander; David Thacker
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 150 minutes), £15.50

    Following THE ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE LIVE the two discs feature scenes taken from RSC productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, recorded by the British Library and the RSC over almost half a century. As...

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  5. Selling Hitler (1991)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £19.99

    Mini-series adapted from the non-fiction book by Robert Harris about the Hitler Diaries hoax of the 1980s, starring Jonathan Pryce, Alan Bennett, Tom Baker, Alexei Sayle and Barry Humphries as Rupert Murdoch.

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  6. Heat is on, The: The Making of Miss Saigon (1989)

    Director
    David Wright (4)
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 70 minutes), £7.99

    While their phenomenally successful musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables was still playing to packed houses around the globe, librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schonberg had...

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  7. Hotel London (1987 Film, Video)

    Director
    Ahmed Jamal
    Producer
    Mahmood Jamal
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shot in a bed and breakfast hotel after months of research with homeless families and single people, looks at the effects of the housing crisis in London and relates these facts to the general economic...

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  8. Country Wife, The (1985)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 119 minutes), £8.99

    Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley’s bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr Horner - a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is...

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  9. Timon of Athens (1981) (1981 Television)

    aka: Shakespeare Plays, The

    Director
    Jonathan Miller
    Producer
    Jonathan Miller
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 130 minutes), £12.99

    Television production of the play with Jonathan Pryce in the title role.

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  10. Comedians (1979 Video)

    Director
    Richard Eyre
    Producer
    Richard Eyre
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Hire, VHS (PAL, 94 minutes)

    The 1975 stage play transferred to television in 1979. The plot concerns a class for stand-up comics that meets before a talent-spotting contest. The play presents a realist depiction of the classroom and...

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