BBC Radio 3
Author
Series
BBC music magazine volume 11, no. 7
Publisher
BBC Music Magazine
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
None
2) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Featuring the images of some of the world's most famous stage and film actors, these additions to the all-new Oxford School Shakespeare introduce--and enthrall--young people to one of the greatest writers of all time. This season brings revised editions of five of the Bard's most famous plays--As You Like It, Othello, Hamlet, Love's Labour Lost and The Taming of the Shrew. Designed specifically for students unfamiliar with Shakespeare's rich literary...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher...
Publisher
Opus Arte
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Set in Brooklyn in 1947, the story is narrated by Stingo, a 22-year-old struggling writer from Virginia. It describes in flashback his relationship with two doomed lovers, Nathan, a brilliant, paranoid-schizophrenic Jew, and Sophie, a Polish survivor of Auschwitz. It gradually uncovers Catholic Sophie's tormented past culminating in her need to choose which of her two small children will go to the gas chamber and which will be given the chance to...
Series
BBC music magazine collection volume 25, no. 13
Publisher
BBC Music
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Series
BBC music magazine collection volume 24, no. 13
Publisher
BBC Music
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English