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COLERIDGE: DARKER REFLECTIONS

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 5499 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 18
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 27.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Wilsher, Barry
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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Sequel to: 'Coleridge: Early visions' (3026). Covering the last thirty years of his career, this volume sees Coleridge re-emerge on the literary scene as a great and daring poet.

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COLERIDGE: EARLY VISIONS

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 3026 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 21.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Tyrrell, Norman
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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Winner Whitbread Biography Award 1989. First part of major biography of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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DR JOHNSON AND MR SAVAGE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4217 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 7
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 10.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Race, Steve
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
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The story of an unusual friendship between Samual Johnson and the poet, playwright & convicted murderer Richard Savage.

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FATAL AVENUE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4216 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 14
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 21.00
\pause{1500}Reader: Sanctuary, Gerald
\pause{1500}Main subject: War - General
\pause{1500}Additional subject: War - WW1
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A history, guide and unique study of Northern France & Flanders - its battlefields from 1346-1945.

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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7540 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 15
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Reader: StJohn, Michael
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Political
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A biography of Winston Churchill, which looks at the influences that made him what he was. The author argues that the qualities that made him great also led him to make catastrophic blunders such as the loss of Allied lives in Gallipoli and the fall of Singapore.

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UNKNOWN COLERIDGE, THE

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 4560 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 1
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 1.50
\pause{1500}Reader: Callow, Simon
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Art, Music & Literature
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Poetry
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BBC recording of programme on the life of the poet Samuel Coleridge.

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WELLINGTON

\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6284 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 9
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 12.50
\pause{1500}Reader: StJohn, Michael
\pause{1500}Main subject: Biography & Autobiography - Historical to 1945
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A shy boy born into an impoverished Anglo-Irish noble family, Arthur Wellesley became a national hero for saving Europe from Napoleon Bonaparte. As the Duke of Wellington he later served as Prime minister and Queen Victoria wept at his death. The author charts the extra ordinary progress of the Iron Duke.

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