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Neverwhere (DVD)
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Under the streets of London is a strange world inhabited by monsters and saints, muderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. Richard, a quiet London businessman, is pitchforked into this world when he rescues a young girl he finds bleeding on a pavement.Neverwhere is a dark and thrilling mixture of metaphor, history, humour and high adventure.Starring Laura Fraser (The Flying Scotsman), Hywel Bennett (Loot, Eastenders), Gary Bakewell (Man and Boy).
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New Tricks: Series 2 (DVD)
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Try telling this lot they're too old for the job. Lane, Standing, Halford and their bullish boss Pullman have not given up on the old cases they are involved in nor on their abilities to solve them yet. Mixing nose-to-the-ground, old school detective work with a fresh take on troublesome cases, the veterans investigate a range of unsolved crimes from the apparently racially motivated attack on a young Asian bride to the mystery of the unidentified torso found in a wood populated by wild boars. Will they succeed where others have failed? Or will the burden of all the years begin to weigh down on them? After all, they all have to grow old some time.
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Simon Schama: Power Of Art
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Simon Schama follows the success of A History of Britain with his explosive new series and book on the history of creativity. Taking as his starting point eight famous painters and their great masterpieces, Schama transports the reader back to the intense moment in history when these works were conceived and born. In each case the artist - Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso and Rothko - is backed into a corner, facing a crisis; given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics one more time. But this is more than a story about art and artists. As Schama takes us back to the birthplace of these masterpieces - to the murderous, messianic world of Baroque Rome; paranoid, revolutionary Paris; the madhouses and brothels of Provence and the carnage of...
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Something Special: Where I Live (DVD)
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Something Special helps children with learning and language difficulties communicate. It is specially designed to be inclusive, teaching a signing system called Makaton, which will allow children of all abilities to join in the fun.
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Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
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Famous for lampooning the schoolboy view of the medieval world in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Terry Jones has a real passion for and detailed knowledge of the Middle Ages. In 'Terry Jones' Medieval Lives' his mission is to rescue the Middle Ages from moth-eaten cliches and well-worn platitudes. Behind the stereotypes of 'damsels in distress' and 'knights in shining armour', of rich men in their castles and the poor man at their gates, there are wonderfully human stories that bring the period to life. Terry starts with a medieval archetype - the Knight, Peasant, Damsel and Monk, Outlaw, King, Merchant and Physician - and in the course of unravelling their role and function will meet a host of colourful real-life characters, recreating their world by...
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The Blue Planet Special Edition (DVD)
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This definitive natural history of the world's oceans covers everything from popular shores and teeming shallows to the mysterious open depths. Two-thirds of the planet is covered by the oceans and yet they remain largely unexplored and certainly under-filmed. The TV series Blue Planet changes all that and subsequently changes our views of the deep. Advances in underwater photography have opened the doors to unknown territories never before explored. Includes 3 new programmes: The Abyss, Dive To Shark Volcano & Amazon Abyss
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The Vicar of Dibley: A Very Dibley Christmas (DVD)
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Episodes: Merry Christmas: It has been 10 years since Geraldine became the vicar of Dibley and everyone is determined to celebrate her anniversary. But as usual nothing goes to plan and she soon has to deal with a disastrous chocolate gift, an unexpected visit from a supermodel and a depressed Frank. Happy New Year: It is Geraldines 40th birthday and the village council decide the only way to make it an occasion to remember is by organising a night of speed dating. Also included on the DVD are two Comic Relief sketches featuring Vicar of Dibley characters, a behind-the-scenes featurette, "Dibley Defrocked" and some new epilogues.
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The Virgin Queen (DVD)
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Starring: Anne-Marie Duff ; Tom Hardy ; Joanne Whalley ; Ben Daniels ; Dexter Fletcher ; Sienna Guillory ; Ian Hart ; Kevin McKidd ; Robert Pugh ; Emilia Fox ; Hans Matheson ; Ewen Bremner ; Tara Fitzgerald ; Tony Guilfoyle ; Ralph Ineson ; Neil Stuke Anne-Marie Duff stars as the enigmatic Virgin Queen in this spellbinding drama that portrays one of Britain's greatest monarchs, Elizabeth I. Written by Paula Milne, the powerful script about the long and eventful life of England's iconic Queen explores the full sweep of Elizabeth's life: from her imprisonment as a teenage princess at the hands of her half sister Queen Mary (Joanne Whalley) to young queen, discovering the harsh realities of ruling a country divided by faith and under threat from abroad, into her years of...
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The World at War
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The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was a unique and irreplaceable record since many of the eyewitnesses captured on film did not have long to live. The programmes producers committed hundreds of interview-hours to tape in its creation, but only a fraction of that recorded material made it to the final cut. For more than 30 years the interviews have never been allowed to be published until now. The well-known names interviewed for the series include Albert Speer, Karl Wolff (Himmlers adjutant), Traudl Junge (Hitlers secretary), James Stewart (USAAF bomber pilot and...
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Wildlife Specials Boxset (DVD)
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All four programmes from the BBC Wildlife Specials series. Each film is a masterpiece of expertise and innovation: award-winning cameramen using revolutionary filming techniques, backed by the latest scientific research, and each features one of nature's superstars, revealing aspects of its life that have never been seen before. Dangerous, powerful, but above all breath-takingly beautiful, tigers have for centuries sparked awe and admiration. Yet, it is their very uniqueness which has made them a prized object for hunters. This film could be the last complete portrait of tigers in the wild as there is a real chance they could be extinct within the next decade. The leopard is the least known of all Africa's big cats. Until now, the leopard, an animal of the night, has been...
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