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For the Love of Books: A Sarajevo Story – in pictures

Feb

2012

During the Bosnian war, a group of men and women risked their lives to rescue thousands of irreplaceable Islamic manuscripts – and preserve a nation's history. Amid bullets and bombs, this handful of passionate book-lovers safeguarded more than 10,000 unique, hand-written antique books and documents – the most important texts held by Sarajevo's Gazi Husrav Beg Library, founded in 1537. The Guardian have published a few of the film's most striking images here

http://tinyurl.com/7gb9gan

THE LOVE OF BOOKS A Sarajevo Story broadcasts on Monday 20th February at 22:00 on BBC4

Feb

2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cc84n
THE LOVE OF BOOKS: A Sarajevo Story, is the thrilling tale of how a group of passionate book lovers risked their lives to save the Gazi Husrav Beg Library from destruction during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 – 1995. This is a film about the importance of books, about how libraries are the heart of our cultural identity, repositories for history and memory.

The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings broadcasts the 1st of 3 episodes on Monday 9th Jan at 9pm on BBC4

Jan

2012

The Private Lives of the Medieval Kings broadcasts the 1st of 3 episodes on Monday 9th Jan at 9pm on BBC4. (www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0192nr) Oxford Film and Television and BBC Four will tell the story of the Medieval monarchy as preserved through stunning illuminated manuscripts from the British Library’s Royal Manuscripts collection which contains some of the most priceless documents in our national history. Some of these manuscripts were commissioned by the Medieval Kings to burnish their legacies. Others were captured as war booty, and handed down from one dynasty to the next.

STAGESTRUCK: THE FINAL!

Dec

2011

The Stagestruck Final is here!

For the past few months, eight amateur theatre groups from across the UK and Ireland have been competing in a major competition launched by Sky Arts to find the best amateur theatre groups in the country and one group, above all, worthy of the ultimate prize: the chance to open a play in London’s West End. We have seen them perform classic Ibsen and Chekhov in the quarter-finals and dramatic scenes from Shakespeare’s King Lear in the semi-finals.

Wikileaks - Secrets and Lies, More 4, Tuesday 29th November, 10pm

Nov

2011

Don't miss the definitive account of the 'wiki-saga', featuring the first major television interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

The film unites all the major protagonists for the first time, including Assange's erstwhile partner Daniel Domscheit Berg, and the editorial teams at the Guardian, Der Spiegel and New York Times newspapers, as well as the US state department spokesperson who had to deal with the leaks.

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