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BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 7
[ ViaVision Entertainment DVD / 5 DVD - released 14/Jan/2016 ] In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised... |
David Attenborough - Life on Air
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 6/Oct/2010 ] There are few TV presenters who are as popular, charismatic and well loved as David Attenborough. Yet Sir David has had an extraordinary professional history off screen too which also provides an insight into the history of television. |
Small Axe
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2022 ] The first television project from Oscar and BAFTA-winning British director Steve McQueen, this series of films for TV is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community. Set between 1969 and 1982, these standalone stories... |
Abba
Against the Odds [ BBC / Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 5/Dec/2024 ] This gripping feature documentary tells the little-known story of ABBA's struggle against the odds to ditch the post-Eurovision tag of 'one-hit wonder'. Facing protests in Sweden & UK radio bans, ABBA have to find their unique sound before conquering... |
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Princess Ida Ambrosian Opera Chorus with Frank Gorshin, Nan Christie, Laurence Dale, Anne Collins & others [ BBC / Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] Music by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a host of stars including Frank Gorshin, Bernard Dickerson, Anne Collins and Claire Powell. 114 minutes. For more than 100 years the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan have played to... |
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience & The Sorcerer [2 DVDs] Ambrosian Opera Chorus with Sandra Dugdale, Donald Adams, Derek Hammond-Stroud, John Fryatt, Clive Revill, David Kernan & Nana Christie [ BBC / Umbrella DVD / DVD - released 10/Aug/2014 ] For more than 100 years the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan have played to packed audiences around the world. These two names have become synonymous with classic light opera - music that is timeless and tuneful lyrics that are witty, scathing and memorable. |
LIVE AT THE BBC PROMS
The King's Singers Live at the BBC Proms The King's Singers [ Signum Vision DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] A live and televised recording from this year's BBC Proms performance on 5th August by the most famous a cappella group ever: the King's Singers. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Raymond Aceto / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight" (BBC Music) |
SACRED MUSIC
Sacred Music: a story spanning six centuries Simon Russell Beale / The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Mar/2010 ] Series One of the BBC's groundbreaking classical music programme follows renowned actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale as he explores the flowering of Western sacred music. |
Africa - Eye to Eye with the Unknown (David Attenborough)
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 8/Apr/2020 ] This is the world's wildest continent as you've never seen it before - an intense sensory adventure from the Atlas Mountains, through the Savannah lands to the Cape of Good Hope and from the Roof of Africa and the Kalahari to where the dark... |
All Creatures Great And Small Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 28 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] All 91 episodes of the 1980's BBC drama series following events in a veterinary practice supporting the local farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Based on James Herriot's autobiographical bestsellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and... |
'Allo 'Allo: The Complete Collection - Series 1 - 9
[ BBC DVD / 18 DVD Box Set - released 8/Feb/2024 ] The Cafe Rene, at the heart of the picturesque town of Nouvion in occupied France, is a hot-bed of war-time intrigue. Look around and you'll see the Resistance, the Communists, the German Army, the Gestapo, the Royal Air Force and the one Officer... |
As Time Goes By: The Complete Series 1-9
[ BBC DVD / 11 DVD - released 8/Aug/2024 ] Love gets a second chance, 38 years on, in this warm and witty comedy by Bob Larbey. As Time Goes By stars Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer as long-lost sweethearts Jean Pargetter and Lionel Hardcastle, who lost touch... |
A Bit Of Fry And Laurie: The Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 5 DVD - released 8/Aug/2024 ] Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were among the most successful acts of the alternative comedy show Saturdau Live/Friday Night Live and after a Christmas pilot in 1987, the BBC commissioned a series in 1989. "My father wouldn't have a television in the... |
Blackadder: Complete Collection Remastered
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 18/Jan/2024 ] BLACK ADDER: Throughout the ages, men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage. Others, like the snivelling worm Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, the bitter and twisted son of a medieval king, have emerged... |
Blue Planet: The Collection
[ BBC DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2020 ] THE BLUE PLANET: The Blue Planet is the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans. Narrated by David Attenborough, the extraordinary images of this marine epic reveal the sea at its most fearsome and alluring,... |
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: A Celebration of Classic MGM Film Musicals
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 6/Apr/2011 ] Live from the Royal Albert Hall Clive Anderson introduces a Prom celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals. John Wilson and his hand-picked Orchestra celebrate with songs from unforgettable movie classics, including The Wizard of Oz, Meet Me... |
The Complete Open All Hours: Series One to Four
[ BBC DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 12/Sep/2024 ] Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, the stuttering grocer, in the classic cornershop comedy. Arkwright's urge to take money from his customers by fair means or foul is second only to his need to prevent his nephew Granville from discovering a world... |
Dad's Army: The Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 14 DVD - released 13/Jun/2024 ] Dad's Army was created and written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the duo who were also responsible for 'Allo 'Allo, Hi-De-Hi! and It Ain't Half Hot, Mum . Perry came up with the idea when it struck him that people had forgotten the role that the... |
The Durrells: The Complete Collection
[ BBC / Madman Entertainment DVD / 8 DVD Box Set - released 12/Dec/2024 ] A warm, funny, feel-good series about a family's adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life. Based on Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished... |
