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... |
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection - Remastered (3 Disc Set)
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 16/Jan/2024 ] Inept and manic English hotel owner and manager, Basil Fawlty, isn't cut out for his job. He's intolerant, rude and paranoid. All hell frequently breaks loose as Basil tries to run the hotel, constantly under verbal (and sometime physical) attack... |
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... |
Keeping Up Appearances - The Complete Collection
[ BBC / Madman DVD / 8 DVD Box Set - released 13/Apr/2002 ] Tireless social climber Hyacinth Bucket puts her best foot forward in this hilarious BBC comedy of manners. Hyacinth busies herself performing selfless acts of charity for the lower classes (including her family), doling out invaluable advice. |
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... |
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,... |
Earth From Space
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/May/2020 ] Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, revealing new discoveries, incredible colours and patterns, and just how fast it is changing. |
Frozen Planet - The Complete Series
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 7/Mar/2012 ] This landmark, six-part series from the BBC's world renowned Natural History Unit brings to the screen the frozen wildernesses of the Arctic and Antarctic. Ambitious and epic in scale, it is the ultimate close encounter with the polar regions,... |
Michael Palin Full Circle
[ BBC DVD / DVD Box Set ] From Michael Palin and the team that brought you Around the World in 80 Days and Pole to Pole comes the most ambitious journey every undertaken for a television series - 50,000 miles of adventure and humour-packed incident which attempts a complete... |
Happy Valley Seasons 1-3 Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2023 ] All 18 episodes from all three series of the highly-acclaimed BBC drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a police sergeant Catherine Cawood, a divorced police sergeant in a rural West Yorkshire valley still trying to recover from the suicide of her... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [New Packaging]
[ BBC / 2 DVD - released 7/Sep/2011 ] When Earth is destroyed by a Vogon Demolition Fleet to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent joins his friend Ford Prefect (who turns out to be a researcher for an electronic reference guide called the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)... |
Human Planet - The Complete Series
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 23/Nov/2011 ] PG. Following in the footsteps of 'Planet Earth' and 'Life', this epic eight-part blockbuster shot in HD is a breathtaking celebration of the amazing, complex, profound and sometimes challenging relationship between humankind and... |
The Life of Birds - complete series [David Attenborough]
[ BBC Earth DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 5/Aug/2011 ] This magnificent series from the master, David Attenborough, celebrates the incredible variety of the world's best loved creatures and provides fascinating insights into their way of life. |
Life on Earth - The Complete Series (David Attenborough)
[ BBC DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 8/Apr/2020 ] It is the greatest story on earth-the development of life on this planet over three and a half billion years. The series which tells in took three years to make, involved one and a half million miles of travel and includes some of the most beautiful,... |