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Welcome to the Bates Archive Shop;
sales of the limited-edition audio and video available here help
to keep the Bates Archive online.
How to Order
To order, please email your request to the Shop, including your location (US or other)
and the email you use for PayPal. You will receive a PayPal invoice,
and your order will be mailed within 24 hours of payment. Prices
include US postage. For Canada, Europe and elsewhere, air mail
is $5 for up to two DVDs.
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| LIMITED EDITION DVDs |
Format: DVD-R, Region 1 (NTSC)*
__ Alan Bates Biography (DVD) $38 ABA427
__ And So Died Riabouchinska
(DVD) $38 ABA115
NEW
Ray Bradbury Theatre Episode 18,
1987
__ A Summer Afternoon in Alan's Garden
(DVD) $30 ABA401
A
short and personal film with poems about nature and gardens read
by Alan.
__ Bundle:
Biography + Alan's Garden (DVD) $55
- 2 disk set ABA507
__ Bundle:
"Single Spies"
 An Englishman Abroad + A Question of Attribution
Alan Bennett's two great plays about espionage (DVD) $55 - 2 disk set ABA509
__ The Dog It Was That Died
(DVD) $38 ABA422
__ Dr Fischer of Geneva (DVD) $38 ABA413
__ The Fixer (DVD)
$38 ABA414
__ Force Majeure
(DVD) $38 ABA703
(in French; subtitled)
__ Losing Track (DVD) $38 ABA415
__ Nothing But the Best (DVD) $38 ABA405
__ One for the Road (DVD) $38 - ABA111 NEW
__ Bundle:
Plaintiffs and Defendants +Two Sundays
Simon Gray's pair of plays about love and infidelity
(DVD) $55 - 2 disk set
ABA417
__ The Running Man
(DVD) $38 ABA420
__ Secret Friends (DVD) $38 - ABA112 NEW
__ Bundle:
Separate Tables (DVD) $55 -
2 disk set ABA701
Table by the Window, + Table Number Seven
Terence Rattigan's pair of one-act plays, with Julie
Christie
__ The Shout (DVD)
$38 ABA501
__ Story of a Love Story (l'impossible
objet) (DVD) $38 ABA411
__ The Trespasser
(DVD) $38 ABA423
__ Unnatural Pursuits (DVD) $55 - 2 disk set ABA702
__ Very Like a Whale (DVD) $38 - ABA504 NEW
__ We Think the World of
You (DVD) $38 ABA508
Other DVDs of interest
__ A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
(DVD of 2002 play) $55 - 2 disk set ABA421
Film
of 2002 London production with Eddie Izzard and Victoria
Hamilton.
__ After Pilkington (DVD) $38 - ABA114 NEW
A
Simon Gray BBC 1987 production with Bob Peck, Barry Foster, Miranda
Richardson
__ Anthony Quinn, Reflections
in the Eye (DVD) $30 ABA412
Dcumentary
includes Bates comments
__ A Question of Attribution
(DVD) $38
ABA509
Alan Bennett's companion piece to "An Englishman
Abroad." James Fox, Prunella Scales
__ Bridge to the East (DVD) $38 ABA116 NEW
1 hour documentary about the Byzantine Scholar Sir
Stephen Runciman; Alan Bates narrates several passages
__ Old Flames (DVD) $38 ABA416
A Simon Gray play
with Stephen Fry, Simon Callow, Miriam Margolyes
__ They Never Slept (DVD) $38 - ABA113 NEW
A
1990 Simon Gray WWII spy spoof with Edward Fox, Pete Postlethwaite,
Harriet Walter
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LIMITED
EDITION CDs |
__ Amsterdam (4 CD set) $55 ABACD701
Winner
of the 1998 Booker Prize.
From
the Independent review: "Ian McEwan's Booker Prize-winning
novella "Amsterdam" takes to spoken word like a duck
to water, not least because it is so short that no abridgement
was needed to fit it on to four cassette tapes. Alan Bates, his
voice gruffly wry and authoritative, is the perfect choice as
reader. |
 __ Art (CD) $25
ABACD403
Alan
plays Serge, the guy who sets everything in motion by buying
a white painting. What follows is a great and hilarious meditation
on friendship, taste, style, and ... art.
This
Yasmina Reza play had a succession of distinguished casts in
London and New York, but none more wonderful than this trio:
Alan Bates - Michael Gambon - Simon Russell Beale. |
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Babii Yar and Other Poems (CD) $25
ABACD401
This
wonderful recording features Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko
performing his works in live poetry readings, and Alan Bates
reading the same poems in English in a studio. Great performances
by Yevtushenko declaiming in epic style, Bates using the full
range of his instrument to reveal every nuance. It's worth searching
for this gem.
This
CD is arranged with the English reading of each poem first, followed
by the Russian, so that you can follow Yevtushenko's version.
(Note that the Bates reading also appears on the Poetry Compilation
CD.) |
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Poetry Compilation (CD)
$25 ABACD402
This
CD contains works by nine poets: Blake, Browning, Celan, Frost,
Henley, Housman, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Yevtushenko. There
are 39 poems; the length of the CD is 70 minutes.
One
of the highlights is Alan's contribution to a PEN International
fundraiser in 1981 to benefit PEN's work on behalf of writers
whose freedom had been denied them. He reads the searing Paul
Celan poem "Death Fugue." Notes and a playlist accompany
the CD. |
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The Collection (CD)
$25 ABACD404
In
the 1976 video of Pinter's "The Collection" Alan plays
James, a jealous husband.
In
1962 Alan played a different role in this BBC radio production
- he is Bill, Harry's young live-in lover. Harry (Olivier in
the video) is played by Harold Pinter, and Stella by Vivien
Merchant, Pinter's wife at that time. This was taped off
the air; the sound quality is excellent, and there are interesting
differences between this version and the video. |
 __ Thomas Hardy Readings (CD)
$25 ABACD501
Alan reads
excerpts from The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Trumpet Major,
Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Life's Little Ironies,
as well as a selection of poems.
The programme is interspersed with music
researched from the Hardy family manuscripts and the Dorset County
Museum, played by the Mellstock Band on early instruments. Recorded
for the National Trust on 9 January 1998. |
* There
are two basic formats for recordable DVDs: DVD-R (that's
minus R) and DVD+R. DVD-R
has emerged as the most universal and popular format.
If you want to check your player for
compatibility, the link below lists over 5,000 players and the
DVD formats they support. (You will need your brand and exact
model number):
http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php
PLEASE NOTE: Unless
otherwise requested, all BA disks are DVD-R. If you would prefer
DVD+R, just ask. In all cases, the DVDs are Region 1, NTSC. All
recent US players and televisions, and most non-US, can play
these disks.
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