The BBC, Classic-novel adaptations and other related things

The Future of the BBC

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Next generation BBC iPlayer BBC store Arts Open minds Shakespeare BBC Playlister Digital creativity and coding Live events New targets Talking to audiences source: The Guardian

Can only former Oxbridge students appreciate Shakespeare?

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"Julian Fellowes has been criticised by Shakespeare experts for rewriting certain passages and altering the language used in the Bard's work. He rejects the criticism, saying the film was never intended to be a straight adaptation of the original. "When...

Game of Thrones and Machiavelli

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http://www.medievalists.net/2013/10/05/game-of-thrones-and-machiavelli/

The Hour - Series 2 BBC trailer

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Channel Four Launch - 1982

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First minutes of the new television service in the UK. Novermber 2nd, 1982.

Décryptage du générique de Game of Thrones (HBO)

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Game of Thrones is a TV adaptation of the eponymous fantasy novels by George RR Martin. video (in French) at the source

The Real King's Speech - King George VI - September 3, 1939

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Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran

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Armchair Nation: An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV by Joe Moran A book review ; clickable link: here Interesting tidbits: "Moran leads us into a lost world of primitive technological wonderment, with the first BBC broadcasts of the 1930s...

Tom Hiddleston previews The Hollow Crown to be broadcast on PBS in the US

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Listen to Virginia Woolf's voice thanks to the BBC

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listen to a short extract of the recording: link