BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 6
[ BBC DVD / 5 DVD - released 3/Dec/2015 ] 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... |
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... |
Jane Austen's Sanditon - Season Three
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2020 ] The hugely popular period drama based on Jane Austen's unfinished story returns For Season 3. Your invitation awaits for more grand parties, wise and outspoken women, and lovely friendships that stand the test of time and circumstances. But many... |
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... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music - Recreating a Royal Spectacular The English Consort, Andrew Manze [ Kultur / BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Filmed on the River Thames with the English Concert. Directed by Andrew Manze. |
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) |
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... |
An Idiot Abroad
[ BBC / 2 DVD - released 8/Jun/2011 ] In this hilarious series Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world... against his will. Karl thinks he's visiting the Seven Wonders but along the way the Little Englander must endure camel rides, jungle... |
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 2
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD - released 11/Jun/2015 ] 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 great performances... |