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Metamorpheus - video of documentary

1.1 Reference code
3758
1.3 Date
1.5 Media
Videotape
3.1 Content
film
3.1 Scope and Content
43 mins. Picture quality: excellent. Sound quality: excellent. Camera work: professional. Featuring Oliver Taplin.
Mythical Journeys. In ancient legend, the women of Thrace killed the poet Orpheus in a Dionysian frenzy and threw his head with his lyre into the river Hebrus. Still singing, the head made its way to the island of Lesbos where it was established as an oracle. Professor Oliver Taplin sets out to follow the journey of the poet's head through modern day Bulgaria to the Greek island accompanied by poet Tony Harrison.
Peter Symes also donated a digital version of this film and related footage, held on APGRD server at Collections_Audiovisual > TonyHarrison general > AV.Rel.Doc.Met(2000) and on DVD (same ID number).
Directed by Peter Symes.
4.1 Conditions of Access
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4.2 Conditions of Reproduction
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4.3 Languages
English
6.1 Archivist's note
Copyright: British Broadcasting Corporation, Bristol.