Collection of live performances from blues singer-songwriter John Mayall. Recorded for French TV in 1970, the tracks performed include ' Sweet Little Angel', ' California', ' Travellin' Man' & ' My Pretty Girl'. ...

This video documents the life & work of John Mayall, founder of the Bluesbreakers. Included is the only footage known to exist of Mayall performing live in the late 1960s, & tribute is also paid by colleagues including former Bluesbreakers John Mc Vie, Eric Clapton, Peter Green & Aynsley Dunbar. ...

Disc 1 1. The Kerry Dance
- John Mc Cormack (4.11) 2. The Rose of Tralee
- John Mc Cormack (3.2) 3. A Pair Of Blue Eyes
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Documentary about the career of motorcycling racing ace John Mc Guinness. At the Centenary of the Isle of Man TT in 2007, Mc Guinness became the first person ever to lap the legendary 37.73-mile mountain circuit at an average speed of more than 130mph, an achievement recently named ' Landmark of the Decade' by Fast Bikes magazine. ...

Includes: the following albums: ' American Fool' (1982), ' Uh-Huh' (1983), ' Scarecrow' (1985), ' The Lonesome Jubilee'
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Box set of films starring John Mills. ' Great Expectations' (1946) is the classic film version of Dickens' novel, directed by David Lean, in which orphan Pip (Anthony Wager) befriends an escaped convict before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of mad Miss Havisham & her niece Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (Mills) discovers a mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible. In ' The October Man' (1947), a young man (Mills) is accused of murdering a model. He has to prove his innocence to the police, society & himself, as he has a history of mental disorders that may have made him commit the crime without him realising. In ' Morning Departure' (1950), based on the play by Kenneth Woollard, the crew of a submarine, led by Lt. Commander Armstrong (Mills), is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. Will they be rescued before they run out of air? ' Waterloo Road' (1945) is a story of ordinary people in wartime that stars Mills as a soldier gone AWOL, & Stewart Granger as the cad out to seduce his wife. Noel Coward co-directed, wrote & starred in ' In Which We Serve' (1942), a patriotic piece of World War II propaganda about a destroyer, told through flashbacks & the reminiscences of the surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed. Mills plays Ordinary Seaman ' Shorty' Blake. ' We Dive at Dawn' (1943) is a World War 2 drama that highlights the characters (all aged only between 19 & 23 years) as much as the actual events. The British submarine Sea Tiger's crew is looking forward to a long shore-leave after months at sea. This is cut short when they are ordered to pursue & sink the German battleship Brandenburg. The crew's sub-Commander (Mills) struggles to fulfil the mission despite discovering that the battleship is heavily defended. Along the way Sea Tiger encounters many obstacles & once the crew has attempted to sink the battleship they have to escape knowing that they are about to run out of fuel. In ' Flame in the Streets' (1961) a Union man has to confront the prejudices of his members when a black foreman is appointed, & the members threaten to strike. When he discovers that his daughter (Sylvia Sims) wants to marry a Jamaican he must confront his own prejudices. In ' The History of Mr Polly' (1949) Mills stars as Alfred Polly, recently sacked from his job he inherits money from his father, thus enabling him to take a bike tour of the country. He falls in love but it all goes wrong so Alfred ends up marrying his cousin, Miriam (Betty Ann Davies). They set up a draper's shop in a small town. Miriam sours, they face bankruptcy & boredom & Mr Polly comes to hate his life. In utter despair he decides to commit suicide, but even this goes wrong & he is forced to take to the road again. ...

In the run-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, British broadcaster & football buff John Motson presents his definitive list of World Cup heroes & villains. ...

John Q Archibald (Denzel Washington) is a Chicago factory worker struggling to make ends meet. When his son Michael is rushed to hospital after having a seizure at a baseball game, the doctors say the boy must receive a heart transplant as soon as possible. Lacking the necessary health insurance to cover the operation, John has no choice but to take the chief surgeon hostage, barricade himself in the emergency room, & demand that his son's name be put on a donor-recipient list. As the police gather outside & hostage negotiator Frank Grimes (Robert Duvall) attempts to diffuse the situation, the media begin an in-depth coverage of the siege & in the process turn John into a modern-day folk hero. ...

Live concert from two of Pentangle's founding members. Guitarist John Renbourn & vocalist Jacqui Mc Shee have been musical collaborators for four decades. Renbourn's guitar style is a product of years of curiosity & investigation. Exploring the guitar in unusual & beautiful ways, John takes his listeners through a musical landscape of masterful playing, warm vocals & witty asides. The consummate fingerstylist plays a unique folk-baroque fusion of British & Celtic folk music with jazz, blues, ragtime, classical, Middle Eastern, & pre-Renaissance music. London-born Mc Shee combines a soprano voice with an experimenter's outlook. There's also a guest appearance by guitarist, Clive Carroll. ...

This release captures thirty years of music by John Renbourn & chronicles his evolving growth as one of today's foremost acoustic guitar masters. Tracks include: 'I Know My Rider', ' Travelling Song', ' Let No Man Steal Your Thyme', ' In Time', ' Blues In A', ' Rosslyn', ' Trotto', ' The English Dance', ' Whitehouse Blues', ' The Fair Flower Of Northumberland', ' Pavane', ' Tourdion', ' Candyman', ' Goodbye Porkpie Hat', ' Round Midnight', ' Abide With Me', ' Great Dreams From Heaven', ' Sweet Potato', ' Lord Franklin', ' Little Niles', ' Young Man Who Wouldn't Sow Corn', ' The Lament For Owen Roe O' Neil', ' Mist Covered Mountains Of Home', ' The Wedding' & ' Cherry'. ...