The incomparable Victoria Wood is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film & Television Arts Awards
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Director Yasujiro Ozu's final film AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON continues his quietly observed explorations of family dynamics in postwar Japan Frequent Ozu star Chishu Ryu plays Shuhei Hirayama an aging widower whose three children each depend upon him in varying degrees The eldest Kazuo who is married is a spendthrift who purchases a new set of golf clubs then hits up his indulgent dad for a loan to buy a refrigerator The middle child daughter Michiko is a 24-year-old still living at home & happy to be the domestic fulcrum between her father & her younger brother Koichi a willful teenager Shuhei's conviction that Michiko isn't ready for marriage scares away a potential suitor in whom she is also interested But the old man has a change of heart after a long drinking session with several buddies who warn him that Michiko might wind up an old maid trapped in the web of loneliness he knows all too well He arranges a marriage for her & she finds herself caught between her own desires & her duty to her father Yhis release also

Includes:: Ozu's 1948 film A HEN IN THE WIND (KAZE NO NAKA NO MENDORI)

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLING AUTHOR! Four friends two crushes & a secret After a bruising divorce headstrong Juliet Miller invests in a flat & advertises for a flatmate little believing that in her late thirties she'll find anyone suitable But along comes self-employed copywriter Hattie raw from her own relationship split & the two woman hit it off When Juliet's twin brother Guy meets Hattie he is overcome with a massive crush just as his friend Steve develops the hots for Juliet But being a shy gentle giant Guy communicates so clumsily with Hattie as to give her the opposite impression Can he turn Hattie's affection for his family into love for him? & then Juliet makes a discovery which will turn their lives upside-down ' Bursting with warmth & joie de vivre' JILL MANSELL ...

1 Intro 2 (Interlude 1)3 Tessellate 4 Breezeblocks 5 (Interlude 2)6 Something Good 7 Dissolve Me 8 Matilda 9 Ms 10 Fitzpleasure 11 (Interlude 3)12 Bloodflood 13 Taro ...

The powerful new novel from the master storyteller
- inspired by the true story of one man who might have stopped World War II
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Track Listings 1 Most Wonderful Time Of Year
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- Andy Williams 2 Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open

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The triumphant seventh novel in the bestselling phenomenon that is the Outlander series The year is 1777 The place North Carolina & as the American rebellion grows in intensity Highlander Jamie Fraser & his wife Claire need to decide which side their family is going to be on The choice should be an easy one given that Claire was born in the twentieth century & has already seen the future
- in history books But things are never simple where the Frasers are concerned as father & son unwittingly come face to face on the battlefield & an old adversary reaches forward in time to threaten the next generation Up to now Claire & Jamie's love has survived every danger history has put in their path but in the chaos of war with families bitterly divided against each other is the future finally going to catch up with them?
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Because Ale's new friends want to know what she is running from they want to know who she is & whether they can trust her Fifty years later a young American writer wanders the streets of Tangier searching for inspiration ...

' Fans of Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson will find much to admire' Guardian on The Shadow of What Was Lost AS SHADOWS RISE A DARKNESS AWAKESAn amnesty has been declared for all Augurs
- finally allowing them to emerge from hiding & openly oppose the dark forces massing against Andarra However as Davian & his new allies hurry north towards the ever-weakening Boundary fresh horrors along their path suggest that their reprieve may have come far too late Meanwhile Caeden continues to wrestle with the impossibly heavy burdens of his past Yet as more & more of his memories return he begins to realise that the motivations of the two sides in this ancient war may not be as clear-cut as they first seemed An Echo of Things to Come continues the epic story that began in The Shadow of What Was Lost the acclaimed fantasy blockbuster from James Islington The Licanius trilogy The Shadow of What Was Lost An Echo of Things to Come The Light of All That Falls (coming 2019) Praise for the series' Numerous surprises action aplenty' Sci Fi Now' You'll be left wanting more' SFX' Astoundingly intricate world-building' Daily Mail' Action-packed epic fantasy' Book Bag
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The consensus among the world's scientists that human behavior is contributing to the life-threatening degradation of natural systems continues to be ignored by the chief supporters of the common core curriculum These supporters
- corporations politicians & educators who promote the further expansion of the industrialconsumer & now digitally dependent lifestyle
- have now encoded their misconceptions & silences in the Common Core Curriculum The education that will prepare students in the decades ahead is simply not part of the thinking of the groups promoting the reforms An Ecological & Cultural Critique of the Common Core Curriculum suggests a number of concepts teachers can introduce that will enable students to examine cultural assumptions that originated in the abstract thinking of philosophers & that continue to underlie current ecologically unsustainable patterns of thinking These concepts will also enable students to recognize the traditions they need to renew before the digital revolution reduces life processes to data that can be monetized

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