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Production of The Beautiful Game
24/06/2000
Exterior shots of McCarthy's Pub, Restaurant and Undertaker, Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and the Parish Church opposite. Ben Elton and Andrew Lloyd Webber at keyboard, discussing changes to the show after...
PD James and Police Commander Andy Baker at the Crime Museum
14/12/2005
Talk about James' work, changes in policing. Shots of the museum's exhibits as Baker talks James through various cases, death masks, and weapons.
Production of The Beautiful Game
02/08/2000
Ben Elton and Robert Carsen discuss changes to the script. Interview with Ben Elton, talking about the show's editing process. Actors work on their lines with voice coach Jill McCullough. Rehearsal.
Backstage at the RSC
2009
Backstage activity before performance of The Grain Store. Greg Hicks having his beard and hair put on by Rachel, wig mistress; general conversation. Backstage activity during performance, costume and ...
Interview with David Peace
2008
[Camera on Bragg] Influence of Northern writers on Peace, This Sporting Life as model for The Damned Utd, the Yorkshire Ripper, the miners' strike, early writing, fiction vs non-fiction, language chan...
Melvyn Bragg interviews PD James
07/12/2005
Discusses James' parents, her mother's mental health, education, working in the civil service, her husband's mental health, psychiatry and mental healthcare, beginnings as a writer, financial security...
Melvyn Bragg interviews PD James
07/12/2005
Discusses James' parents, her mother's mental health, education, working in the civil service, her husband's mental health, psychiatry and mental healthcare, beginnings as a writer, financial security...
Melvyn Bragg interviews PD James
07/12/2005
Discusses public fascination with murder and death, James' literary influences, her motivations for writing, her writing process, Dorothy L Sayers, the English crime novel, writing dead bodies, Adam D...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
Discusses writing, working as a reporter, getting published; childhood, Danish and Swedish family background, not going to university, reading; Wexford, Kingsmarkham, changes in English towns, Simisol...
Interview with Rodney Bewes
27/10/2004
Rodney Bewes talks about The Likely Lads, working with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, ATV, partnerships, football, Marty Feldman, the King's Road in the 1960s, drinking, shooting for television. Bewes w...
Rehearsals and production of The Beautiful Game
02/08/2000
Dance rehearsal/workshop for The Beautiful Game. Interview with choreographer Meryl Tankard, talking about her approach to choreographing in the show, taking inspiration from footballers' body movemen...
Melvyn Bragg interviews Ruth Rendell
12/12/2004
[Camera on Bragg] Discusses writing, working as a reporter, getting published; childhood, Danish and Swedish family background, not going to university, reading; Wexford, Kingsmarkham, changes in Engl...