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South Bank Show Production Archive7
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
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Bio auto graphic

Nicholson, Michael C (1962-)

2006

Artist's book. Text and image laid out in a manner reminiscent of a comic strip, based around the artist's life and experiences (in this case reading and observing others reading mainly on public tran...

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The power of small : Autumn 2014

Nicholson, Michael C (1962-)

2014

"In a raw examination of a single frustrating, trivial domestic event, artist/writer Mike Nicholson exposes the personal cost of the loss of a hand-held device. How much does a piece of common technol...

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Sylvia Wynter

15 Jul 2008

Memorandum of Agreement for We Must Learn to Sit Down Together and Talk About a Little Culture: Anti-Colonial Essays,1967-1981

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Alan Bennett in Leeds

2005

Alan Bennett delivering a monologue on writing and family background, sitting in churchyard. Shots of St Bartholemew's Church, Armley, Leeds.

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Mama Sita's East-West cook-book

Sita Mama

[200-?]

Cover title: Mama Sita's cook-book.

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A member of the production team reads aloud from Ruth Rendell's A Demon in My View, as an actor strangles a female mannequin in a dark basement

15/10/2004

Various shots of Ladywell Tavern and surrounding area as a man walks into the pub, sits at the bar and orders a drink; multiple takes.

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Ruth Rendell sits on a bench in Regent's Park, watching passers-by

06/08/2004

Various shots of people in the park. Park Square East; walking through the Nursemaids' Tunnel connecting Park Square and Park Crescent; rose bushes; park gates. Production crew can be heard discussing...

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Sylvia Wynter - 'We Must learn to Sit together and talk a little about Culture: Decolonising Essays 1967-1984'

2022

Computer printout of article 'In quest of Matthew Bondsman: some cultural notes on the Jamesian journey' and photocopied article from published work (unknown); partial typescript with title and conten...

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We're in Occupation poster

Mar 2024

The poster title, "We're in Occupation Parkinson Building" sits above an image of a first holding the Palestine flag, breaking out of a bars. There is also a QR code to sign up for a newsletter. The t...

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Alan Bennett at Allerton High School and Leeds Town Hall

2005

Alan Bennett at Allerton High School Leeds, talking about his old school Leeds Modern, now rebuilt as Lawnswood school. Covers architectural preservation, univerisity, class mobility. Bennett inside L...

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Caryl Phillips at Elland Road and Whinmoor Estate

23/01/2003

Phillips sits in the stands at Elland Road talking about racism in football, about receiving racist abuse from other Leeds United fans in the 1970s, football and Britishness. Exterior shots of Leeds U...

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