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Potter on Potter
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
214 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism, to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.
Play
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This clever, disturbing, and controversial play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident. Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean cut but satanic young man walks into their lives with startling results.2 women, 2 men
Blue Remembered Hills
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
210 kr
Skickas
This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a woods, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasize and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Easy going Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fair minded Paul. Plain Audrey is overshadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her anger on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified "Donald Duck" who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays a dangerous game of pyromania with tragic results.
Son of Man
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1979
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Changing Forest
AvDennis Potter
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
100 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of England... with a people as warm as anywhere else, but they seemed warmer to me.' It was a childhood which informed all his television work, from his first documentary to such classic dramas as The Singing Detective.The Changing Forest, first published in 1962, is Potter's deeply personal study of that small area- its people, traditions, ceremonies and institutions- at a time of profound cultural and social change in the late 1950s and early '60s. With extraordinary precision and feeling he describes the fabric of a world whose old ways are yielding to the new: habits altering; expectations growing; work, leisure, language itself changing under the impact of the new television, of commercial jingles and the early Elvis. And, with powerful sympathy and wit, he asks whether the gains of modernity have, for the individuals and society he so marvellously evokes, been worth the loss.Part autobiography of one of this century's greatest writers, part elegy for a vanishing way of life, part testament to the abiding humanity that underlies all Potter's work, this exquisite, passionate and brillinat book is a classic of its kind.
Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel
A BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the unproduced screenplay
AvDennis Potter,D.M. Thomas
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2022
129 kr
Lyssna direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter''s unproduced screenplay of D. M. Thomas''s award-winning novel, plus bonus documentary''Incendiary'' Radio TimesThe annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.The White Hotel, one of seven ''unmade movies'' available on audio, centres around circus performer Lisa, who visits famous Berlin psychoanalyst Dr Probst to discover the cause of her mysterious breast and pelvic pains. Reading her sexually-charged journal, Probst concludes that the answer lies in her past. But then Lisa reveals her unsettling premonitions - ''I see what is going to happen. And what is going to happen cannot be endured.'' Is her trauma really the result of childhood memories, or a dark vision of the future?Lauded for his groundbreaking TV dramas, Dennis Potter also wrote several acclaimed screenplays, including Gorky Park. The White Hotel was taken up by numerous directors, from Bertolucci to David Lynch, with actors including Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep slated to star - but the project defeated them all. Now, directed by Jon Amiel, who worked with Potter on The Singing Detective, this haunting, hallucinatory drama has finally found an audience. Anne-Marie Duff (His Dark Materials) stars as Lisa, with Bill Paterson (Fleabag) as Probst and Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as the narrator. It is preceded by a 15-minute documentary, The Long Road to the White Hotel, telling the story of the many failed attempts to film Thomas''s novel and the making of the radio production.NB: Contains strong language and sexual scenesProduction creditsWritten by D. M. ThomasOriginal screenplay by Denis Potter under licence from Briarpatch Limited L.PDirected by Jon AmielProduced by Laurence Bowen and Peter EttedguiSound design: Wilfredo AcostaA Dancing Ledge production for BBC Radio 4CastLisa - Anne-Marie DuffProbst - Bill PatersonNarrator - Simon McBurneyThe Lover - David GyasiVictor - Nigel LindsayAunt Magda - Morwenna BanksVera/Old Woman/Wife - Jasmine JonesVarious - Wayne ForesterOfficer/Captain/Maitre d''/Old Man - Nick UnderwoodKoyla - Felix JamiesonLittle Lisa - Tillie MurrayFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8 September 2018The Long Road to the White HotelWith DM Thomas, Amanda Bale and Jon AmielProduced by Philippa Geering and Geoff BirdAn Overtone Production for BBC Radio 4First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8 September 2018© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd(p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Unmade Movies: The Collection
Seven BBC Radio 4 Adaptations of Unproduced Screenplays
AvArthur Miller,Jay Presson Allenm. fl.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2024
188 kr
Lyssna direkt efter köp
Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.Collected here are seven sensational ‘unmade movies’:Harold Pinter’s Victory, adapted from the novel by Joseph ConradHarold Pinter’s The Dreaming Child, adapted from the novel by Karen BlixenArthur Miller’s The HookAlfred Hitchcock’s unfinished screenplay The Blind Man, completed by Mark GatissHammer Horror’s The Unquenchable Thirst of DraculaDennis Potter’s The White HotelAlexander MacKendrick’s Mary Queen of ScotsThese could-have-been classics are brought to life with stellar casts featuring Hugh Laurie, Bertie Carvel, Rose Leslie, Bill Paterson, Ellie Bamber, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rebecca Front, Anne-Marie Duff, Meera Syal, Vanessa Kirby and Mark Strong. Setting the scene and providing the ‘establishing shots’ – the original stage directions and descriptions from the screenplays – are narrators Simon Russell Beale, Anne Reid, David Suchet, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Sheen, Simon McBurney and Glenda Jackson.Moving, mysterious, suspenseful, thrilling and terrifying, these dazzling productions will keep you enraptured from beginning to end. So sit back, grab some popcorn and let them play out on the biggest screen of all – that of your imagination.NB: Contains strong language and sexual scenes© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Art of Invective
Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994
AvDennis Potter,Ian Greavesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
375 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work.Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.
Art of Invective
Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994
AvDennis Potter,Ian Greavesm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
404 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work.Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.

Dennis Potter – författare

Visar alla böcker från författaren Dennis Potter. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

9 produkter

Kategorier

9 produkter

Potter on Potter
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1994
214 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led to his pioneering use of non-naturalism, to his self-reflexive subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.
Play
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1986
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This clever, disturbing, and controversial play revolves around Mr. and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle aged couple whose only daughter, Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident. Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean cut but satanic young man walks into their lives with startling results.2 women, 2 men
Blue Remembered Hills
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
210 kr
Skickas
This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during World War II. In a woods, a field and a barn, they play, fight, fantasize and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Easy going Willie tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fair minded Paul. Plain Audrey is overshadowed by Angela's prettiness and wreaks her anger on the boys. All of them gang up on the terrified "Donald Duck" who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by his peers, plays a dangerous game of pyromania with tragic results.
Son of Man
AvDennis Potter
Häftad, Engelska, 1979
219 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Changing Forest
AvDennis Potter
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
100 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter was born and brought up in the Forest of Dean- a 'strange and beautiful place', as he described it in the last interview before his death, 'rather ugly villages in beautiful landscape, a heart- shaped place between two rivers, somehow slightly cut off from the rest of England... with a people as warm as anywhere else, but they seemed warmer to me.' It was a childhood which informed all his television work, from his first documentary to such classic dramas as The Singing Detective.The Changing Forest, first published in 1962, is Potter's deeply personal study of that small area- its people, traditions, ceremonies and institutions- at a time of profound cultural and social change in the late 1950s and early '60s. With extraordinary precision and feeling he describes the fabric of a world whose old ways are yielding to the new: habits altering; expectations growing; work, leisure, language itself changing under the impact of the new television, of commercial jingles and the early Elvis. And, with powerful sympathy and wit, he asks whether the gains of modernity have, for the individuals and society he so marvellously evokes, been worth the loss.Part autobiography of one of this century's greatest writers, part elegy for a vanishing way of life, part testament to the abiding humanity that underlies all Potter's work, this exquisite, passionate and brillinat book is a classic of its kind.
Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel
A BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the unproduced screenplay
AvDennis Potter,D.M. Thomas
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2022
129 kr
Lyssna direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter''s unproduced screenplay of D. M. Thomas''s award-winning novel, plus bonus documentary''Incendiary'' Radio TimesThe annals of movie history are full of lost treasures - spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Alfred Hitchcock and Dennis Potter, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.The White Hotel, one of seven ''unmade movies'' available on audio, centres around circus performer Lisa, who visits famous Berlin psychoanalyst Dr Probst to discover the cause of her mysterious breast and pelvic pains. Reading her sexually-charged journal, Probst concludes that the answer lies in her past. But then Lisa reveals her unsettling premonitions - ''I see what is going to happen. And what is going to happen cannot be endured.'' Is her trauma really the result of childhood memories, or a dark vision of the future?Lauded for his groundbreaking TV dramas, Dennis Potter also wrote several acclaimed screenplays, including Gorky Park. The White Hotel was taken up by numerous directors, from Bertolucci to David Lynch, with actors including Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep slated to star - but the project defeated them all. Now, directed by Jon Amiel, who worked with Potter on The Singing Detective, this haunting, hallucinatory drama has finally found an audience. Anne-Marie Duff (His Dark Materials) stars as Lisa, with Bill Paterson (Fleabag) as Probst and Simon McBurney (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) as the narrator. It is preceded by a 15-minute documentary, The Long Road to the White Hotel, telling the story of the many failed attempts to film Thomas''s novel and the making of the radio production.NB: Contains strong language and sexual scenesProduction creditsWritten by D. M. ThomasOriginal screenplay by Denis Potter under licence from Briarpatch Limited L.PDirected by Jon AmielProduced by Laurence Bowen and Peter EttedguiSound design: Wilfredo AcostaA Dancing Ledge production for BBC Radio 4CastLisa - Anne-Marie DuffProbst - Bill PatersonNarrator - Simon McBurneyThe Lover - David GyasiVictor - Nigel LindsayAunt Magda - Morwenna BanksVera/Old Woman/Wife - Jasmine JonesVarious - Wayne ForesterOfficer/Captain/Maitre d''/Old Man - Nick UnderwoodKoyla - Felix JamiesonLittle Lisa - Tillie MurrayFirst broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8 September 2018The Long Road to the White HotelWith DM Thomas, Amanda Bale and Jon AmielProduced by Philippa Geering and Geoff BirdAn Overtone Production for BBC Radio 4First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 8 September 2018© 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd(p) 2022 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Unmade Movies: The Collection
Seven BBC Radio 4 Adaptations of Unproduced Screenplays
AvArthur Miller,Jay Presson Allenm. fl.
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2024
188 kr
Lyssna direkt efter köp
Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten gems have been brought to life, fully realised as vivid, cinematic radio productions. Scripted by major 20th Century writers, they star a host of A-list actors and feature richly evocative, atmospheric soundtracks.Collected here are seven sensational ‘unmade movies’:Harold Pinter’s Victory, adapted from the novel by Joseph ConradHarold Pinter’s The Dreaming Child, adapted from the novel by Karen BlixenArthur Miller’s The HookAlfred Hitchcock’s unfinished screenplay The Blind Man, completed by Mark GatissHammer Horror’s The Unquenchable Thirst of DraculaDennis Potter’s The White HotelAlexander MacKendrick’s Mary Queen of ScotsThese could-have-been classics are brought to life with stellar casts featuring Hugh Laurie, Bertie Carvel, Rose Leslie, Bill Paterson, Ellie Bamber, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rebecca Front, Anne-Marie Duff, Meera Syal, Vanessa Kirby and Mark Strong. Setting the scene and providing the ‘establishing shots’ – the original stage directions and descriptions from the screenplays – are narrators Simon Russell Beale, Anne Reid, David Suchet, Peter Serafinowicz, Michael Sheen, Simon McBurney and Glenda Jackson.Moving, mysterious, suspenseful, thrilling and terrifying, these dazzling productions will keep you enraptured from beginning to end. So sit back, grab some popcorn and let them play out on the biggest screen of all – that of your imagination.NB: Contains strong language and sexual scenes© 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd
Art of Invective
Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994
AvDennis Potter,Ian Greavesm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
375 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work.Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.
Art of Invective
Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994
AvDennis Potter,Ian Greavesm. fl.
E-bok
Engelska, 2015
404 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work.Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.

Dennis Potter – författare

Potter on Potter

Play

Blue Remembered Hills

Son of Man

Changing Forest

Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel

Unmade Movies: The Collection

Art of Invective

Art of Invective

Dennis Potter – författare

Potter on Potter

Play

Blue Remembered Hills

Son of Man

Changing Forest

Unmade Movies: Dennis Potter's The White Hotel

Unmade Movies: The Collection

Art of Invective

Art of Invective