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5 days ago · History can be measured by recurrent events, such as the Olympics and American presidential elections that come around every four years. Both, as it happens, take place again this year. Television drama is less regularly repetitive, but adaptations of Dickens’s Great Expectations were screened by the BBC in 1959, 1967, 1981, 2011 and 2023.
4 days ago · From the later years of the republic and by means of the Roman Empire (27 BC-476 AD), theatre spread west across Europe, around the Mediterranean and reached England; Roman theatre was more varied, extensive and sophisticated than that of any culture before it. While Greek drama continued to be performed throughout the Roman period, the year ...
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4 days ago · But there’s no denying that Scorsese (pictured below with Michael Powell) is a charismatic, insightful narrator. And no other figure would have been able to get funding for Made in England, a 133-minute tribute to filmmaking. The fact that the documentary will be shown in all its glory on cinema screens in an era when BBC Arts has abandoned ...
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3 days ago · Signature. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
- 29 April 1980 (aged 80), Los Angeles, California, US
- Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, 13 August 1899, Leytonstone, Essex, England
1 day ago · Scrooge was very depressed when he got back home: the kind sister whose son he rejected, the generous employer, the lost girlfriend – that's a lot to take in! But there were still two spirits left.
5 days ago · Book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. Smith and Brant Theatricals, Red Hanger UK Ltd, Gavin Kalin Productions, Tulchin Bartner Productions, Echo Lake Entertainment UK Ltd, Square Peg, Stephen and Paula Reynolds, Fiery Dragons, Judith Ann Abrams Productions/Peter May, Nancy Gibbs in association with Curve.
