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Tony Harrison reads his poems

1999

Tony Harrison reads poems 'Bringing Up', 'the Morning After', 'Marked with D', 'Classics Society', 'Cremation', 'Timer', 'Them and [uz]', 'The Icing Hand' (audio only)

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Russell Tovey performs Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Education for Leisure'

2009

Russell Tovey performs Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Education for Leisure'; multiple shots, several takes.

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Jemima Rooper performs Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Warming Her Pearls'

2009

Jemima Rooper performs Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Warming Her Pearls', in period costume. Several scenes, multiple takes.

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B Roll footage for dramatisation of 'Education for Leisure'

2009

Additional shots for Russell Tovey's performance of Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Education for Leisure'

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Carol Ann Duffy

2009

Interview discusses Duffy's poem Originally, childhood, left wing masculinity, her powm The Way My Mother Speaks, her mother's life, Catholicism, education, poems about teachers, Liverpool in the 1970...

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Interview with Tony Harrison

1999

Audio only. Discusses interest in fragments, Sappho, Sophocles; Greek drama and Roman violence on stage; his film poems

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Carol Ann Duffy

2009

Interview discusses comparisons with Phillip Larkin, her poems A Child's Sleep and Valentine, the moon as motif in poetry, sonnets, surrealism in her work, her poems Tall and Education for Leisure, la...

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Finishing school'

2009

Black and white film (1960s?), girl in botanical garden/glasshouse, music and poem 'see the conkering heroine comes', Adrian Henri

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Tony Harrison

1999

Audio out of sync. Discusses Harrison's film poem Prometheus, becoming a poet, drawing on high and low art, critical reception to his work

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Carol Ann Duffy

2009

Interview discusses Duffy's poem Originally, childhood, left wing masculinity, her powm The Way My Mother Speaks, her mother's life, Catholicism, education, poems about teachers, Liverpool in the 1970...

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T? Newydd Writers' Centre, Wales

2009

Carol Ann Duffy and Gillian Clarke answer questions from a small audience. Exterior shots of T? Newydd Writers' Centre, Wales. Carol Ann Duffy reads poem for audio recording.

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