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
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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 200 pages Jackson Brad ...

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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
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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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