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Series
Great authors. Charles Dickens volume 1
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A recreation of Charles Dickens extraordinary life.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alan and Celia have now been married for seven years. The childhood sweethearts, who reunited and remarried in their seventies, have moved into a lovely new home. But Alan and Celia are discovering that wedded bliss isn't always blissful. Clashing politics, Alan's new job and a wild local lad create tension. Meanwhile, Caroline gets emotionally embroiled at work and Alan's brother Ted jets in for a visit.
4) Agatha
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
This tantalizing tale posits what may have happened to the famed writer during her real-life 11-day disappearance in 1926. The world doesn't know and Dame Agatha never told.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1912 young Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters, including socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked away and eventually home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. When George appears in England determined...
6) Hiroshima
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Language
English
Description
The story of the final months of World War II. While war rages in the Pacific, newly installed President Truman and his chiefs of staff wrestle with the unprecedented moral question of whether to drop the atomic bomb, and Emperor Hirohito and his proud Samurai generals face the moral dilemma of whether to surrender or fight on to the end.
7) Colditz
Publisher
Distributed by Timeless Media Group
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
This films tells a remarkable story of the prisoners in the German POW camp called Colditz.
Author
Series
Rumpole of the Bailey volume 12
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
This release comprises four 45 minute BBC Radio 4 plays adapted by John Mortimer from four stories in his latest published collection, Rumpole and the Primrose Path. Rumpole is a wine-imbibing friend of the South London criminal classes, and the scourge of all QCs. Acting as narrator, he tells a series of stories involving legal chicanery, criminal derring-do and startling coincidence, spiced with a modicum of domestic strife at home.
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...10) We the Kings
Author
Language
English
Description
On the run from his revengeful actions, a teenager in hiding finds himself in more trouble than he anticipated.
11) Henry V
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare's "Henry V" forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays, which includes "Richard II", "Henry IV, Part I", and "Henry IV, Part II". The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his...
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
The Summoner’s Tale • The Friar’s Tale • The Manciple’s Tale • The Physician’s Tale • The Seaman’s Tale • The Lawyer’s Tale • The Prioress's Tale
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another, their interaction
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Series
Masterpiece volume 1
Language
English
Description
Daphne du Maurier's tale of romance and suspense stars Charles Dance as Maxim de Winter and Emilia Fox as his new bride, who finds that the head housekeeper of Manderley, Mrs. Danvers (Diana Rigg), is devoted to her dead mistress, Rebecca.
Author
Series
Masterpiece volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mrs. de Winter revives Manderley's famous ball, but, encouraged by Mrs. Danvers to copy her dress from a painting, she incurs Maxim's wrath. Mrs. Danvers' taunting reaches a climax as she declares Rebecca is still ruler at the house.
Author
Publisher
Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
This entertaining introduction to Shakespeare's work weaves biographical information with excerpts from 33 of his plays. Informative, well-researched commentary, written by two Royal Shakespeare Company actors, provides a glimpse of the man and little-known lore about his work.
18) Seven Ages
Author
Publisher
Naxos AudioBooks
Language
English
Description
'One of the best anthologies of the year. An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast.' The Independent This exceptional anthology, based on Lord Owen's published anthology Seven Ages - Poetry for a Lifetime, features many of Britain's leading actors who have all given their services for charity. Shakespeare's 'seven ages' speech (read by Sir Ian McKellen) punctuates the programme which contains...