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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

Shut It Down: The Many Faces of Censorship

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 30th November 2018 by Basil Chiasson30th November 2018

Two days recently spent in the Pinter Archive, at the British Library, have predictably enough turned up a few more gems. During this visit, I looked at a number of scrapbooks containing materials relating to Pinter’s political activism. Taking a broad view of the items Pinter collected over several decades makes it easier to spot the themes at work. For example, the items Pinter collated into scrapbook form through the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorised | Tagged Alan Travis, Art, Gillian Slovo, Mountain Language, One for the Road, Press Conference, Roy Williams, S. D. Meckled, Tanika Gupta, The Dumb Waiter, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Truth & Politics, Victoria Brittain, Victoria Station

Pinter and the Law; Or, When Life Imitates Art 

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 24th June 2018 by Basil Chiasson2nd July 2019

In my research for this project I often come across information which is familiar because I’ve seen it more than once. Then there’s the sort which is ‘familiar’ because I’ve seen but forgotten it along the way. But the best scenarios are when I discover new information–new to me or, even better, new to a lot of folks. In this regard I’ve been wanting to write a blog on misses, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorised | Tagged A Pinter Drama in Stoke Newington, Harold Pinter Archive, Mountain Language, Sadiq Khan

On the Road to Pinter

Harold Pinter: Histories & Legacies avatarPosted on 19th September 2017 by Basil Chiasson20th September 2017

Lately, as part of my research for the Pinter Histories and Legacies project, I’ve been leafing through Pinter’s scrapbooks in the British Library. Two weeks ago I ran into some materials on various productions of Pinter’s play One for the Road, from 1984. This caught my attention because most of my work on Pinter has focused on his shift after the 1970s into a more explicitly political register. In one … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Politics, Production, Stage | Tagged Mountain Language, One for the Road, The Late Harold Pinter, The New World Order
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