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Courtney Pine in his recording studio

2000

Talking about recording Back In The Day, other work, digital production technology, the recording and composition process, recording My Father's Place. Shots of screens and mixing desk as Pine demonst...

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Tony Harrison in Beeston and Holbeck

1999

Video 1: Melvyn Bragg interviews Tony Harrison (no audio, camera on Bragg). Video 2: Tony Harrison at his childhood home on Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds; shots of Holbeck Cemetery, Harrison's family g...

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Interview with Courtney Pine in Jamaica,

05/09/2000

talking about why he chose Curtis Mayfireld's Hard Times as a song for Beverley Knight, and Gil Scott Heron's Lady Day And John Coltrane for Lynden David Hall, influences on his latest album Back In ...

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Tony Harrison and Prometheus

1999

Video 1: Interview with Tony Harrison (no audio). Shots of golden Prometheus statue Harrison's back yard in Newcastle; Tony Harrison at a kitchen table of the same house, looking at notebooks of Prome...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Gore Vidal

15/05/2008

Camera on Bragg. Discusses Vidal's move back to Hollywood from Rome, his 'hospital years', interior decoration, grief, Joan Didion, writing Point to Point Navigation, memoir, politics and writing, the...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Gore Vidal

15/05/2008

Setting up for video, Vidal coming down stairs. Vidal discusses his move back to Hollywood from Rome, his 'hospital years', interior decoration, grief, Joan Didion, writing Point to Point Navigation, ...

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Midhurst

2004

Exterior shots of a greengrocer's shop on Midhurst's West Street as the proprietor opens up for the day, customers arrive and make purchases. Shots of town and surrounding countryside, taken from high...

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Interview with Ben Elton, shots of London from a taxi

17/07/2000

Elton talks about development and rehearsals for The Beautiful Game, working collaboratively, editing, changes to the show's ending, politics in Northern Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement. Ben Elt...

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