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Radio Times/Eastenders Children in Need Calendar 2007
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In support of this years BBC Children in Need Appeal, Radio Times has produced an exclusive 2007 calendar featuring all your favourite EastEnders stars dressed as characters from Shakespeare! Inspired by a feature in the 19 August issue, the calendar features more than 20 EastEnders stars reimagined as characters from the Bards great plays. Among them are Adam Woodyatt, who plays Ian Beale, as Prince Hamlet, Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell) as the fairy queen Titania from A Midsummer Nights Dream; Steve McFadden (Phil Mitchell) as Richard III; June Brown (Dot Branning) as Mistress Quickly from The Merry Wives of Windsor; Laurie Brett (Jane Collins) as Portia from The Merchant of Venice; and Max and Tanya Branning (Jake Wood and Jo Joyner) as Antony and Cleopatra. The Queen Vics regulars...
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Rick Stein's Seafood
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Over the years, through his television programmes and books, Rick Stein has done much to inform us about fish and to encourage us to cook it for ourselves, however, many of us still feel nervous about cooking it at home. Rick Stein's Seafood, now available in paperback, brings together his knowledge and expertise, and includes 200 of his tried-and-tested recipes. It is divided into three separate sections: Techniques; Recipes and, finally, an A to Z of Fish. The techniques section covers all the main preparation and cooking methods for each type of fish (round, flat, shellfish etc), while the A-Z of fish is a comprehensive encyclopedia of fish and seafood - including US, Australian and European fish. The recipe section includes all the essential basic recipes, such as stocks, sauces...
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Rick Stein's Seafood Odyssey
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Britain's number one bestselling seafood cookery author embarks on a world tour of seafood cuisine and creates over 150 fabulous new fish dishes inspired by his travels. Having sold over 80,000 copies in hardback, Rick Stein's bestseller is now available in paperback. Rick travels to some of the world's main centres of seafood excellence, picking up recipe ideas, sampling new ingredients and gleaning new techniques for preparing and cooking fish. Armed with the 'fruits' of this travels, he returns from each destination to Padstow to create his own specially adapted and inspired dishes. Among the places Rick visits on his seafood quest are Chesapeake Bay on the east coast of America where he goes in search of the blue swimming crab, the small town of Noosa in...
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Rick Stein: Fruits of the Sea
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In Fruits of the Sea Rick explores Australia and Brittany as well as his beloved Cornwall. The book includes not only hot and spicy dishes, fishy salads, quick fish and elegant fish but also a selection of the most tasty desserts imaginable! This title, along with Rick Stein's Taste of the Sea and Rick Stein's Seafood Odyssey has been re-released with a modernised cover to bring a fresh look to the series. Rick Stein's Fruits of the Sea is a second bestseller for this charismatic Cornishman whose passion and enthusiasm have propelled fish cookery to a new prominence in Britain. With over 150 original recipes, including exotica such as Pan-fried Trout with Oyster Mushrooms and Escalope of Salmon with Champagne and Chive Sauce and simpler fare like Fillet of Cod with Saffron...
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1945: The Real Story (DVD)
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Directed by: Paul Dickin. This is a record of the events, and the stories of ordinary people on both sides, that unfolded from the New Year's Day bombings in Britain through to the nuclear clouds over Hiroshima.
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4 At The Store
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Global funny man Ross Noble hosts an evening of stand-out stand-up comedians from London's Comedy Store. These two programmes, first heard on BBC Radio 4, feature comedians including Richard Ayoade, Ronnie Golden, Milton Jones, Reginald D Hunter, Boothby Graffoe and Giorgio Serci and Dara O'Briain. Ross Noble has received a Perrier Award nomination. He was also named Best Stand-up Comedian by Time Out and has stormed the likes of Have I Got News For You and Just A Minute. He has been described as 'the funniest new comedian of the day' by The Daily Mail and has written and presented Ross Noble Goes Global for BBC Radio 4 (also available from BBC Radio Collection).
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50 Years of BBC News (DVD)
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of BBC News on television, this is a fascinating series of programmes that look back on the past five decades. Each programme is a 30-minute segment covering a decade, beginning with the 1950s. Providing insight into how BBC News is reported, each segment is narrated by one of the following key news figures: Charles Wheeler, Michael Buerk, Kate Adie, John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen. Also includes three extra programmes from 1953, 1963 and 2004 about how the news is produced.
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Agatha Christie: Sad Cypress
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Elinor Carlisle and Roddy Welman are the model English couple, perfect companions set for a life of ease when they inherit Aunt Laura's considerable fortune. But a poison pen letter begins a chain of events which is to end in tragedy..... Enter Hercule Poirot to investigate. John Moffatt stars as the great Belgian detective in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation.
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