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Pinter at the BBC: What the Censor Sees.

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 28th January 2019 by Billy Smart28th January 2019

The long-awaited BFI DVD collection, Pinter at the BBC, is released today. Over five discs, the anthology includes 10 versions of Pinter plays made by the BBC between 1965-88. As all ten are new to any home video format, the release increases the amount of Pinter UK television material publicly available by 500%. In addition to the plays, the collection also includes a wealth of supplementary material – four of … Continue reading →

Posted in Television | Tagged A Night Out, A Slight Ache, BFI, Billy Smart, DVD, Landscape, Monologue, Mountain Language, Old Times, Tea Party, The Basement, The Birthday Party, The Hothouse | Leave a reply

Reflections on the ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conference, 19-20 September 2018

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 1st October 2018 by Amanda Wrigley1st October 2018

The University of Reading arm of the Pinter Histories and Legacies project—peopled by Professor Jonathan Bignell, Dr Billy Smart and Dr Amanda Wrigley—were thrilled to welcome project colleagues and an international group of academic friends old and new from an exciting range of disciplines to the University of Reading’s Minghella Studies, the home of the Film, Theatre and Television Department, on 19 September 2018 for the first day of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, History, Influence, Interview, Legacy, Politics, Production, Radio, Stage, Television, Uncategorised | Leave a reply

Booking open for ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conferences at University of Reading and British Library (19-20 September)

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 8th August 2018 by Billy Smart8th August 2018

Booking is now open for our two day ‘Pinter on Film, Television and Radio’ conference, held at the University of Reading on Wednesday September 19 and the British Library on Thursday September 20. Each day has a particular focus. ‘Pinter on Screen’ at Reading deals with Pinter’s work on film and television, while ‘Pinter on Air’ at the British Library concentrates on Pinter’s radio drama. One-day attendence for either conference … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, Radio, Stage, Television | Tagged BBC, British Library, Conferences, University of Reading | Leave a reply

The Lover (Associated-Rediffusion for ITV, 1963): ‘tough stuff, well acted and cleverly directed’

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 30th May 2018 by Amanda Wrigley25th May 2018

By the time The Lover was broadcast by ITV on 28 March 1963, Pinter was, as his biographer Michael Billington puts it, ‘in contemporary jargon, “hot” ’ (The Life and Work of Harold Pinter, Faber, 2007, p. 142). So, too, was its producer Joan Kemp-Welch (1906-1999), at least within the television industry. The dramatic narrative itself, based on the erotic role-play of a suburban middle-class married couple (played by Vivien … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Legacy, Production, Television | Tagged Associated-Rediffusion, ITV, Joan Kemp-Welch, The Lover | Leave a reply

Pinter’s History, Pinter’s Legacies

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 27th July 2017 by Basil Chiasson27th July 2017

The first order of business for the Harold Pinter: Histories and Legacies project is to develop a database for registering every major production in the United Kingdom, from 1957 to 2017, of Harold Pinter’s plays, screenplays, television and radio dramas. As our team beavers away, reviewing and tweaking the conceptual design of the database and anticipating its completion, we’re all engaged in various projects and tasks relevant to both the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, History, Radio, Stage, Television | Tagged A Night Out, Armchair Theatre, Barbara Bray, BBC, Gina McKee, Indira Varma, Jenny Quayle, Kenneth Cranham, Samuel Beckett, Sydney Newman, The Caretaker, The Hothouse, The Room, Thomas Baptiste | Leave a reply

Harold Pinter on DVD and Blu-ray: A Guide

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 20th July 2017 by Billy Smart14th August 2017

When looking for DVD or Blu-ray copies of Harold Pinter’s work on screen, a simple rule generally applies – if it was made for television it is unlikely to have been commercially released, whereas if it was a film it almost certainly has (but it might well now be deleted). This article is intended to serve as a simple guide to what has been made available and (where it applies) … Continue reading →

Posted in Adaptation, Film, Television | Tagged A Night Out, Accident, Adam Hall, Aidan Higgins, Alan Bates, Anthony Shaffer, Armchair Theatre, BBC, Betrayal, Butley, Christopher Morahan, Clive Donner, Comfort of Strangers, David Jones, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Bowen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Fred Uhlman, Harry Burton, Heat of the Day, Helen Mirren, Ian McEwan, Jack Clayton, Jerry Schatzberg, John Fowles, John Irvin, Joseph Losey, Karel Reisz, Kenneth Branagh, L.P. Hartley, Langrishe Go Down, Laurence Olivier, Malcolm McDowell, Margaret Atwood, Melvyn Bragg, Michael Anderson, Nicholas Mosley, Nobel Prize, Paul Rogers, Penelope Mortimer, Peter Hall, Philip Saville, Reunion, Robin Maugham, Russell Hoban, Simon Gray, Sleuth, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Collection, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Go-Between, The Handmaid's Tale, The Homecoming, The Last Tycoon, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, The Servant, The Trial, Turtle Diary, Volker Schlondorff | 3 Replies
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