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71 results found for '"Biographies"' in Keywords.
Arts Week (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Arts Week programme hosted by Richard Robbins (standing in for regular host Sue Jameson), with weekly review of the arts. Includes Robbins’ interviews with actress Nichola McAuliffe on Tennessee...
Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 1 (1984)
- Genre
- Biography; Serial
Reading of first part (of 2) of the story of charismatic gardener Fred Bettesworth from 1892 to the turn of the century. Male reader not identified. Probably extracted from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, by...
Fred Bettesworth the gardener. Part 2 (1984)
- Genre
- Biography; Serial
Reading of second part (of 2) of the story of charismatic gardener Fred Bettesworth from 1901 until his death in 1905. Male reader not identified. Probably extracted from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer, by...
Steve Jones show (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Steve Jones interviews Olympic ski jumper, Eddie the Eagle Edwards (born Michael Edwards) following the publication of his autobiography. He talks about his background in skiing and the difficulties he...
Nightline (1988)
- Genre
- Advertisement; Interview; News bulletin; Phone-in
Mike Allen interviews singer Eartha Kitt, on his Nightline programme and the public phone-in. Speaks about her stage role with Orson Welles in the 1950s; CIA dossier due to anti-Vietnam war statements;...
The night is young (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Jenny Lacey interviews writer, Vivienne Knight about her biography of British actor, Trevor Howard, entitled A Gentleman and a Player. Broadcast on The Night is Young programme.
Brian Hayes show (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Brian Hayes interviews British film director, Ken Russell, following the publication of his autobiography, A British Picture. He talks about his background in cinema and filmmaking and his love of music. He...
The night is young (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News bulletin; Music; Advertisement; Trailer
Gill Pyrah interviewing MP and former Labour Party leader Michael Foot on The Night is Young programme about his new biography, The Politics of Paradise: a Vindication of Byron and Byron’s politics and...
The night is young (1989)
- Genre
- Advertisement; Interview; Music; News bulletin; News report; Trailer
The Night is Young: Gill Pyrah interviews after eight guest Tariq Ali, Pakistani novelist, historian and political campaigner, who talks about his life and times and his autobiography of the 1960s...
Coleridge biography wins Whitbread Book of the Year (1990)
- Genre
- Biography; Interview; News report; Speech
Camilla Affleck reports on Richard Holmes’s biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge: Early Visions - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes Holmes reading from his book and talking...