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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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
The Best Of Jane Austen (Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Emma & Persuasion)
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD - released 13/Jun/2024 ] These acclaimed adaptations of the great Jane Austen's novels proved it is possible to produce sharp, entertaining and modern costume dramas - and remain true to the plot, characters and sparkling dialogue of the original novels. Beautifully filmed... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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Emma [Jane Austen]
[ BBC / 2 DVD - released 13/Apr/2006 ] Jane Austen's classic novel about Emma Woodhouse - cupid to everyone's romances except her own. |
Extras - The Complete Series 1
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 17/Aug/2006 ] Andy Millman is an actor but his agent cannot get him an acting job. Instead he is just an extra in movies, a different film a different location, ever hopeful that one day he will actually get some lines. Includes all six episodes from the first... |
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,... |
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 18/Apr/2012 ] This 2011 production is a raw and passionate three-part adaptation of one of Dickens' finest novels starring Ray Winstone, Gillian Anderson and Douglas Booth. A terrifying encounter with escaped convict Magwitch on the marshes; a summons from Miss... |
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... |
Hinterland Trilogy: The Complete Series 1-3
[ Acorn Media DVD / 8 DVD - released 7/Dec/2017 ] Aberystwyth. Centuries old. A place of searing beauty. A natural crucible of colliding worlds, where history, myth and tradition come face to face with the modern and contemporary. But its panoramic vistas and quaint facade hide a multitude of... |
Howards' Way: The Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 24 DVD - released 8/Aug/2024 ] The stormy weather story of high-life and intrigue amongst Britain's wealthy sailing set. A cult series in its own right, Howards' Way featured the original theme tune composed by Simon May. With tales of love, deceit, family trials and... |
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... |
Jane Austen's Sanditon - The Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD Box Set - released 7/Dec/2023 ] Sanditon is a place that's changing fast. Visionary entrepreneur Tom Parker (Kris Marshall) is transforming the once-sleepy fishing village into a fashionable spa resort. Changing alongside it is the impulsive and unconventional Charlotte Heywood... |
Judge John Deed: S1-5 Collection
[ BBC / Madman Entertainment DVD / 14 DVD Box Set - released 5/Dec/2024 ] Despite the red robe and wig, Mr Justice Deed is no average High Court Judge. Good-looking, fit and fifty-something, he has a rakish charm that belies his sharp intellect. His passion for justice and his maverick approach set him at odds with the... |
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. |
The Last Tango In Halifax Complete Series 1 - 5
[ BBC DVD / 9 DVD Box Set - released 13/Jun/2024 ] The BAFTA-winning drama, Last Tango in Halifax, tells the heartwarming story of childhood sweethearts Alan (Derek Jacobi) and Celia (Anne Reid) who are both now widowed and in their 70s. When they re-connect through the internet 60 years later,... |
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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. |
Little Britain: The Complete Second Series
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] Little Britain takes a look at life in Britain today by following the fortunes of some extraordinary folk. Meet Emily Howard the rubbish transvestite; West Country delinquent Vicky Pollard and Marjorie Dawes the terrifying group leader of... |
Little Britain - Complete Series 3
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 9/Nov/2006 ] M: Contains offensive language and sexual references. Have you ever thought about visiting Britain? Well, let's hope this lot don't put you off! Series Three of the ultimate catchphrase comedy sees the welcome return of some favourite characters... |
The Office - Christmas Specials
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 13/Dec/2005 ] M: Contains offensive language and sexual references. Three years after the cameras stopped rolling, the BBC returns to Wernham Hogg to catch up with the staff, past and present, of the most famous paper merchants in Slough. Gareth is now office... |
Only Fools And Horses: Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 18 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The first ever episode of Only Fools and Horse was broadcast in September 1981. Over seven season's and fifteen specials, Del, Rodders and the gang have given us so many precious moments - the chandelier incident, the yuppy bar fall, the Batman and... |
Parade's End
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2013 ] Acclaimed screenwriter Sir Tom Stoppard and director Susanna White bring Ford Madox Ford's remarkable story of love and betrayal to life in this landmark production. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England give way to chaos and... |
The Paradise S1
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 9/Apr/2014 ] Set amidst the Victorian splendour of Britain's first department store, The Paradise is a rags-to-riches story of a young girl who falls in love with the intoxicating charms of the modern world. As Denise finds her feet as a lowly shopgirl, she must... |
Pennies From Heaven (Masterpiece Series)
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 8/Jun/2006 ] 'Pennies From Heaven', a six-part drama series written by Dennis Potter received great popular and critical acclaim, including the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Drama, when it was first transmitted on BBC TV in 1978. |
Planet Earth III
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our... |
