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  1. Voices of the UK: Accents and Dialects of English (2010)

    Subject
    English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 153 minutes), £15.95

    This two-CD compilation, drawn from the extensive collection of language and dialect recordings held by the British Library Sound Archive, includes 143 recordings that capture and celebrate the rich...

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  2. Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes 71 5-minute audio extracts and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two...

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  3. Bailies of Bennachie, Scotland, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    John Cowie
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 84 min.

    Filmed in the region of Bennachie near Aberdeen in Scotland. Shows remains of crofts built by a colony of settlers and three local people are interviewed about their life and work. Interviews with crofters...

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  4. Pericles (Radio)

    Director
    Gaynor McFarlane
    Producer
    Gaynor McFarlane
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (Download, 100 minutes), £6.79

    Radio adaptation of the play produced and directed by Gaynor McFarlane with a contemporary twist. The multicultural cast includes poet Benjamin Zephaniah as Gower. Tom Mannion plays Pericles and Helen...

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  5. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Radio)

    Producer
    William Shakespeare; J. R. Mageean
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Unknown

    Radio adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream produced by James Mageean. Scenes from the play are spoken in a dialect current in rural Ulster, especially in Tyrone. In his introduction to the broadcast,...

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  6. Lee Nishri-Howitt (Audio)

    aka: Othello; Act 2, Scene 3 Iago

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    Lee Nishri-Howitt discusses the challenges of playing Iago and his journey from non-native speaker of English to being a professional vocal and dialect coach.

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  7. Michael Urie (Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    As he plays he lead in Hamlet directed by Michael Kahn at the Shakespeare Theater of DC, Michael Urie reflects on the importance of trusting the text when playing Shakespeare.

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