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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. |
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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. |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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. |
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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... |
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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Serengeti
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 11/Mar/2020 ] A dramatised story based on the real lives of Africa's most iconic animals. Many tales have been told of Africa but this is the intimate story of the animal families who live there, told from inside their world. A drama where the characters' lives... |
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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... |
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South Pacific
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] G :- |
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeomen of the Guard Ambrosian Opera Chorus with Joel Grey, elizabeth Gale, Claire Powell, Alfred Marks, David Hillman & Elizabeth Bainbridge & others [ 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. |
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GILBERT and SULLIVAN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Gilbert & Sullivan: Ruddigore Ambrosian Opera Chorus with Vincent Price, Keith Michell, John Treleaven, Ann Howard, Sandra Dugdale, Donald Adams & Johanna Peters [ 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. |
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Andrea Bocelli & Charlotte Church
Christmas Glory From Westminster [ BBC Heritage DVD / DVD ] Home Vision Cinema presents Christmas Glory From Westminster. This program features poetry and music from celebrities from the worlds of film and opera. Readings include Greta Scacchi reciting William Blake's The Lamb and Joan Plowright reading... |
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Caro Emerald
In Concert (DVD) [ BBC DVD / DVD - released 25/Oct/2013 ] G: This performance was filmed at the BBC Radio Theatre for BBC's In Concert series in 2013, with a 60 minute version being broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and on digital TV. |
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WOOD / PARRY / BAINTON / STANFORD / NAYLOR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Anthems From King's - English Choral Favourites Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] Stephen Cleobury conducts the choir of King's College, Cambridge in this memorable recital of English Romantic choral music, exquisitely sung and superbly recorded in stereo and 5.1 surround sound in the college's famous chapel. |
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WIDMANN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / WAGNER
Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim: Live from the BBC Proms 2016 Daniel Barenboim (piano/conductor), Martha Argerich (piano) / West-Eastern Divan Orchestra [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 28/Mar/2018 ] The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a symbol of tolerance and understanding between people, opens with Jörg Widman's Con brio and are then joined by the legendary Martha Argerich for Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The King of Instruments (the BBC series) Gillian Weir (six European organs) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] This new DVD (with a free bonus CD containing specially recorded performances of some of the works) is a release by Priory of the BBC programmes that were recorded on six famous European Organs by Dame Gillian Weir in the late 1980s |
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TRADITIONAL
Carols from King's The Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ BBC DVD / DVD - released 14/Nov/2014 ] 'Carols from King's' is a cornerstone of the BBC's Christmas programming output, traditionally shown on both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Along with the live radio broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this pre-recorded special... |
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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) |
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FRANZ LEHAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Lehar: The Merry Widow (complete operetta recorded in English in 2001) San Francisco Opera / Yvonne Kenny, Bo Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gregory Turay / Erich Kunzel (cond) [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] '…this is about as lavish a production of Franz Lehár's adorable operetta as you are ever likely to see…soprano Yvonne Kenny is perfectly cast in the title role.' Classic FM Magazine |
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ALLEGRI / BYRD / TALLIS / PALESTRINA / etc
Sacred Music - An Easter Celebration The Sixteen, Harry Christophers [ BBC / Coro DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] Simon Russell Beale presents a special concert for Easter from LSO St Luke's in London, performed by the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by founder Harry Christophers. The music takes us on a journey of over six hundred years, from... |
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Clarkson - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
[ BBC / DVD - released 9/Aug/2007 ] "For my all new DVD I've come to the U.S. of America-land to find out if the country that gave us Fast Food and the Fast Buck make a decent Fast Car? In fact, can they make any decent cars at all? In my quest, I pitch the best of the West against... |
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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... |
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'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... |
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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... |
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Ballykissangel: Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 15 DVD - released 10/Apr/2025 ] The complete series of the BBC comedy drama starring Stephen Tompkinson and Dervla Kirwan, about an English priest who is transferred to a small Irish community. |
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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... |
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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... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Ten & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House out of its financial quandary. Dr Turner deals... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Eleven & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The return of the multi-award-winning drama, which regularly draws in audiences of over 10 million.Following an eventful Christmas special, the series continues with an episode set in Easter 1967. Celebrations are underway for a colourful Easter... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Nine & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House welcome you back for more heartwarming adventures in London's Poplar district, where slum clearances transform lives in 1965. Approaching each new birth with tenderness, optimism and skill, the midwives deal... |
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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... |
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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... |
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Death In Paradise: Series Ten
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The smash-hit whodunit returns, as D.I. Neville Parker attempts to solve a slew of mysterious murders in the sun-soaked Caribbean. The hugely popular comedy-drama is back for its tenth anniversary series with its usual combination of baffling... |