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Penda's fen / BBC TV ; directed by Alan Clarke ; written by David Rudkin ; produced by David Rose.
LIBRA BLU RAY 029 030 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Play for today.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coming of age--English drama.
- Coming of age.
- Genre:
- Coming-of-age television programs.
- Television melodramas.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (89 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm)
- 4 3/4 in.
- Place of Publication:
- [London, England] : BFI : BBC Worldwide Ltd., [2016]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, PAL, Region B; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital optical mono LPCM 2.0
- full screen (1.33:1) 25 fps
- PAL
- video file Blu-ray disc region B
- Summary:
- Alan Clarke directs this BBC drama that was made for the 'Play for Today' programme. Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire, the drama follows pastor's son Stephen Franklin (Spencer Banks) as he has a series of surreal encounters with angels, demons and pagans. The journey he embarks upon forces Stephen to evaluate his place in the world and confront his home country's ancient pagan history.
- Participant:
- Spencer Banks, John Atkinson, Georgine Anderson.
- Credits:
- Cameraman, Michael Williams; editor, Henry Fowler.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the television program originally broadcast on March 21, 1974, as one episode in the series Play for Today.
- Special feature: The landscape of feelings : the road to Penda's Fen (a new documentary on the making of Rudkin and Clarke's drama).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- OCLC:
- 951845082
- Publisher Number:
- 5035673012222
- BFIB1222 BFI
- VFE04742 BFI
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