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Tony Harrison at museum

1999

Various shots of antiquities, Greek landscape, Harrison speaking to camera (no audio)

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Interview with Tony Harrison at Dephi, Greece

1999

Audio only. Discusses Greek drama, gender, public language, Dephi and poetry, the Castalian Spring, Angelos Sikelianos, Apollo and Dionysus. Harrison describes the landscape. Discusses contemporary vi...

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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 Tony Harrison

1999

Video is edited, some audio out of sync. Discusses Harrison's childhood, dialect, poetry, Latin and Greek, casting Northern actors, classism, teachers, popular theatre, cinema, his mother, iambic pent...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Tony Harrison

1999

Audio out of sync. Discusses moving to Newcastle, The National Theatre, The Old Vic, his parents, language and class, Greek drama, Satyr plays, pantomime, theatre and poetry audiences, making film poe...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Philip Pullman

17/01/2003

Interview discusses Pullman's childhood and the RAF, moving often and its influence on his writing; his father's death, parents in children's literature, Pullman's audiences, writing school plays, Cou...

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