Pleasure At Her Majesty's was the name given to the filmed release of A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick), the first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase At Her Majesty's Pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). In America, the film was originally called Monty Python Meets Beyond the Fringe.
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A semi-dramatised documentary on the life and works of M.R. James, featuring interviews with Christopher Lee, Ruth Rendell, Jonathan Miller, Ronald Blythe and James’ biographer, Michael Cox.
If M.R. James wrote his ghost stories purely to entertain his friends, why do they seem to strike such resonances in readers Why are they so terrifying Clive Dunn's fifty minute documenta...
Jan Vermeer (1632-75) was little known outside Holland either during his lifetime or for more than 200 years after his death, yet he is now acknowledged to be one of the most gifted and intriguing painters of the seventeenth century. This film looks at the social, political and scientific context in which this most enigmatic of painters lived, from the birth of an independent D...