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  1. Private Joseph Kay (2018)

    Director
    Matt Kay
    Subject
    History; Literature

    Jackie Kay’s poem Private Joseph Kay is dedicated to her grandfather who fought at the Somme. This short film, made by award-winning director Matthew Kay, responds to the poem and the themes it raises. [7...

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  2. Beautiful Devils (2017 Television)

    Director
    James Marquand
    Producer
    Andrew Loveday; Michael Loveday; Terry Loveday; Craig Tuohy
    Subject
    Drama; Psychology; Shakespeare; Women’s studies

    In this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello, Oz (Othello) is great friends with Ivan (Iago) and they are both music producers. When a lucrative recording contract prompts Oz to sever ties with...

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  3. Shakespeare and War (2017 Audio)

    aka: To the Battle He Came

    Producer
    Richard Paul
    Subject
    Psychiatry; Shakespeare; Social sciences

    Actor and US Army veteren, William Wolfert sheds examines the spoken words of soldiers in Shakespeare’s texts in order to shed light on how war affects men and women who serve. This exploration is the...

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  4. Henry IV, Part 2 (2017 Audio)

    Subject
    Shakespeare

    Following the loss of England’s French territories, Henry VI is plagued by power struggles, insubordination and threats to his monarchy. Part of a trilogy of plays, Emma Smiths asks whether it’s still...

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  5. Mustine (2017)

    Subject
    Chemistry; Medical sciences

    Podcast. This programme explains how the use of sulfur mustard, or mustard gas - a blister-causing agent used as a weapon during World War I - led to some of the earliest trials for anti-cancer drugs. [7...

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  6. Memories of the Korean War (2016)

    Subject
    History

    Members of the Leicester branch of the British Korean Veterans’ Association talk about their memories of the Korean War. [67 minutes]

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  7. 1945: The Savage Peace (2016)

    Director
    Peter Molloy
    Producer
    Peter Molloy
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195

    A documentary about post-war reprisals against Germans in Eastern Europe. Using rare and unseen archive film, the programme tells a harrowing story of vengeance against German civilians, which mirrored...

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  8. Who is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? (2015)

    Director
    Abby Martin
    Producer
    Mike Prysner
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies

    Extended news report. Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria and police state measures. Abby...

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  9. These Dangerous Women (2015)

    Director
    Charlotte Bill
    Subject
    History; Women’s studies

    This documentary celebrates and commemorates the 100th anniversary of the International Congress of Women that took place on the 28 April 1915, when 1,300 women from 12 countries, warring, neutral and...

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  10. Only the Dead (2015)

    Director
    Michael Ware
    Subject
    History; Politics & government

    Documentary by Australian journalist Michael Ware which tells the story of the insurgency led by militant Islamist Abu Musab al Zarqawi during the Iraq War through footage filmed by Ware during the war.

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