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Bronte Ways - Birstall To Haworth & Haworth To Gawthorpe Hall - DVD (NEW)
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A Literary Trail Across England's Pathways!The Bront‰ sisters are among Britain's most important literary figures. So much of their legacy remains in the parsonage at Haworth where they spent most of their lives and the dramatic Pennine countryside which was such a huge influence on their work. The Bront‰ Way is a walking trail of 43 miles stretching from Birstall across the Pennines to Gawthorpe Hall in Lancashire. In two compelling programmes we travel the route discovering the places associated with the remarkable lives and works of the Bront‰ family.Birstall to HaworthTrace the family's life from Thornton To Haworth exploring the sites connected to `Shirley Country'. The journey to Haworth takes in spectacular scenery and culminates on a ride...
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Sherlock Holmes And The Baker Street Irregulars - DVD (NEW)
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Starring Jonathan PryceThis exciting new production based on Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective centres on a group of street children - `The Irregulars' - who act as the illustrious sleuth's eyes and ears. This highly original Sherlock Holmes mystery finds him investigating the disappearance of two of the Irregulars while being placed under house arrest and foiling a daring criminal plot. The Irregulars first appeared in the Sherlock Holmes story `A Study In Scarlet' in 1887 and their emergence in this new screen presentation brings a different aspect to the traditional TV detective drama. Bill Paterson stars as Holmes' erstwhile companion Dr Watson.
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Foyle's War - Series One - DVD (NEW)
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Series One & Two Complete! To celebrate the continuing success of Foyle's War we are now able to offer our customers the entire Series One & Two in special new boxed sets. Each four DVD set includes every episode from each series with over six hours of high-quality drama in each collection. Starring Michael Kitchen Honeysuckle Weeks and Anthony Howell Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle is determined to serve his country in the war effort. But when his request for transfer into the armed forces is denied he must continue to police his Sussex community investigating crimes of murder and espionage in a climate of suspicion and fear. All the while Foyle looks for a way in which his thwarted ambitions to contribute to the war effort can be achieved. Series One - 4...
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The Victorian Garden Series - DVD (NEW)
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Uncover The Secrets Of A Bygone EraThree separate programmes reveal how the Victorians tended the gardens outside their homes and behind their kitchens. Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson present a six DVD Box set which includes three programmes. The Victorian Kitchen Garden The Victorian Flower Garden The Victorian Kitchen
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Lonesome Dove Complete Box Set - DVD (NEW)
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Just released this month comes The Complete Lonesome Dove Collection including the four parts to this wonderful saga: Lonesome Dove Return To Lonesome Dove Streets Of Laredo and Dead Man's Walk. The Complete Pulitzer Prize Winning Collection On 8 DVDs. Featuring a stellar cast including Robert Duvall famous for his role in The Godfather Part II the renowned Tommy Lee Jones and stunning Anjelica Huston this series spared not a dime in its production values to tell a wonderful rich story.
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Shine On Harvey Moon: Series 1&2 - DVD (NEW)
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We are delighted to bring you the DVD box set of the much-loved comedy drama Shine On Harvey Moon. Kenneth Cranham and Maggie Steed star in the story of a soldier believed killed in action who surprises his family by returning home from WWII.
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Bleak House - DVD (NEW)
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The Original BBC Adaptation.Diana Rigg and Denholm Elliott star in Dickens' intricate tale centred on the legal system in 19th century England. Two young wards await the outcome of Jarndyce and Jarndyce a long running affair. A young girl named Esther Sommerson tries to discover her true parentage and the wife of a baronet is being blackmailed to cover up her secret past.
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Love On A Branch Line - DVD (NEW)
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This BBC adaptation of John Hadfield's comic novel is a wonderful warm comedy drama. Leslie Phillips plays eccentric and disabled Lord Flamborough who chooses to live in an old train rather than with his family in their grand ancestral home. The government is left to foot the bill for the upkeep of Arcady Hall and sends in civil servant Jasper Pye to arrange the dismantling of an old research unit in its grounds.First-Class BBC Comedy Drama Pye is determined to carry out his job to the letter but soon falls under the spell of the home its inhabitants and the old branch line where Lord Flamborough has made his home.
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Nancherrow - DVD (NEW)
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The Sequel To Coming Home... First introduced in Coming Home the bestselling book by Rosamunde Pilcher Nancherrow is the ancestral home of the charismatic Carey-Lewis family. When the Colonel dies it is his irrepressible daughter Loveday who inherits the house and its issues. Order today and enjoy even more on DVD. Cast filmographies and a biography of Rosamunde Pilcher are all added bonuses to this brand new DVD release!
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Jane Eyre - DVD (NEW)
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This 1973 TV version of Charlotte Bronte's dark and brooding novel is a wonderful adaptation of her story of love and intrigue in the bleak setting of 19th century England. Sorcha Cusack is wonderfully believable as the plain introvert Jane Eyre the heroine whose simple honesty and search for personal happiness eventually wins the love of her troubled but ultimately kind-hearted employer Mr Rochester.
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