The shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for murder Behind oak-panelled doors in the House of Commons men with cut-glass accents & gold signet rings are conspiring to murder It&s the late 1960s & homosexuality has only just been legalised & Jeremy Thorpe the leader of the Liberal party has a secret he&s desperate to hide As long as Norman Scott his beautiful unstable lover is around Thorpe&s brilliant career is at risk With the help of his fellow politicians Thorpe schemes deceives embezzles
- until he can see only one way to silence Scott for good
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Adapted from John Preston's book A Very English Scandal Sex Lies & a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by Russell T Davies (Dr Who Queer As Folk Cucumber) & directed by Stephen Frears (Florence Foster Jenkins Philomena Dangerous Liaisons) starring Hugh Grant as Jeremy Thorpe & Ben Whishaw as Norman Scott A Very English Scandal is the shocking true story of the first British politician to stand trial for conspiracy to murder It's the late 1960s homosexuality has only just been decriminalized & Jeremy Thorpe the leader of the Liberal party & the youngest leader of any British political party in a hundred years has a secret he's desperate to hide As long as Norman Scott his vociferous ex-lover is around Thorpe's brilliant career is at risk & eventually Thorpe can see only one way to silence Scott for good The trial of Jeremy Thorpe changed politics forever as the British public discovered the darkest secrets of the Establishment & the lengths they'd go to conceal them Actors Hugh Grant Ben Whishaw Alex Jennings Directors Stephen Frears Format Subtitled PALLanguage English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
- 1851 Number of discs 1
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Track Listing The Disney Chorus
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Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks each book in the Very Short Fairly Interesting & Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core area of the curriculum & turns it on its head by providing a critical & sophisticated overview of the key issues & debates in an informal conversational & often humorous way Engaging & entertaining in equal measure Human Resource Management is a book about work the people who do it & the way they are managed (and mismanaged) Raising issues that are often neglected in typical HRM texts such as work intensification & unemployment; it explores the realities of work workers & the communities that are affected by HRM policy & practice Grugulis draws on current research to provide a critical & reflective overview of the key debates in HRM today Suitable for students of HRM professionals working in organizations & anyone with an interest in the nature of human resources ...

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When the police ask the FBI for help Delta Green agents answer the call This is hardly the first serial-killer case where Delta Green has suspected unnatural forces But it might be the most dangerous to body & soul ...

& Heinemann Plays& offers contemporary drama & new editions of classic plays The series has been developed to support classroom teaching & to meet the requirements of Key Stages 3 & 4 The plays are ideal for classroom reading & performance; many have large casts & an equal mix of parts for boys & girls Each play

Includes:: strategies & activities to introduce & use the plays in the classroom "A View From the Bridge" tells the story of Eddie Carbone who agrees to shelter his wife&s cousins who are seeking refuge in New York as illegal immigrants Trouble begins when his wife&s niece is attracted to Eddie&s younger brother There are 13 parts ten of which are male & three female

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Arthur Miller&s play A View from the Bridge is a tragic masterpiece of the inexorable unravelling of a man set in a close-knit Italian-American community in 1950s New York Eddie Carbone is a longshoreman & a straightforward man with a strong sense of decency & of honour For Eddie it&s a privilege to take in his wife&s cousins Marco & Rodolpho straight off the boat from Italy But as his niece Catherine begins to fall for one of them it&s clear that it&s not just as Eddie claims that he&s too strange too sissy too careless for her but that something bigger deeper is wrong
- & wrong inside Eddie in a way he can&t face Something which threatens the happiness of their whole family This Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by the author & a new foreword by actor Philip Seymour Hoffman


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This Student Edition of A View from the Bridge is perfect for students of literature & drama & offers an unrivalled guide to Miller&s play It features an extensive introduction by Steve Marino which

Includes:: a chronology of Miller&s life & times; a summary of the plot & commentary on the characters themes language context & production history of the play Together with over twenty questions for further study & detailed notes on words & phrases from the text this is the definitive edition of the play Set among Italian-Americans on the Brooklyn waterfront A View from the Bridge is the story of longshoreman Eddie Carbone When his wife&s cousins arrive as illegal immigrants from Italy he is honoured to take them into his house But when his niece begins to fall in love with one of them Eddie grows increasingly suspicious eventually precipitating his violation of the moral & cultural codes of his community & leading to the play&s tragic finale With its examination of the themes of sexuality responsibility betrayal & vengeance the play is vintage Miller & a modern classic

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