Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play & a Nightingale Sang strikes a chord with its bittersweet & sharply humorous portrait of working-class family life on the British Home Front during World War Two Despite air raid sirens gas masks ration books & whistling bombs punctuating their everyday lives the Stott family remain stoic as they focus on keeping life as normal as possible Joan Plowright is the beleaguered church-going matriarch who finds herself drawn to her priest John Woodvine plays her husband who escapes from awkward family situations by banging out popular tunes on the piano Helen Stott (Phyllis Logan) is their sensible 30-year-old daughter She is a kindly if self-deprecating soul but life hasn t been very kind to her She walks with a limp & falls for a soldier who could be toying with her heart Joyce (Pippa Hinchley) is her young sister a flirt who is attracted to every soldier except her husband (Stephen Tompkinson) This is a heart-warming household where misery & happiness mingle as naturally as they do in real life reminding us that in the face of adversity humanity will keep calm & carry on loving

Includes:: three short public information films from the Imperial War Museum They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942); Britannia Is a Woman (1940); & The New Britain (1940) Actors Stephen Tompkinson Tom Watt Joan Plowright John Woodvine Pippa Hinchley Directors Robert Knights Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1

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Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident Arthur has travelled the length breadth & depth of known & unknown space He has stumbled forwards & backwards through time He has been blown up reassembled cruelly imprisoned horribly released & colourfully insulted more than is strictly necessary & of course he has comprehensively failed to grasp the meaning of life the universe & everything Arthur has though finally made it home to Earth But that does not mean he has escaped his fate For Arthur's chances of getting his hands on a decent cuppa are evaporating along with the world's oceans Because no sooner has he arrived than he finds out that Earth is about to be blown up again ...

In & Another Thing the outspoken & outrageous presenter Jeremy Clarkson shares his opinions on just about everything Jeremy Clarkson finds the world such a perplexing place that he wrote a bestselling book about it Yet despite the appearance of The World According to Clarkson things
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- haven't enhanced Not being someone to give up easily however he's decided to have another go In & Another Thing the king of the exasperated quip discovers that Bombing North Carolina is bad for Yorkshire We can look forward to exploding at the age of 62 Russians look bad in Speedos But not as bad as we do Wasps are the highest form of life Thigh-slappingly funny & in your face Jeremy Clarkson bursts the pointless little bubbles of the idiots while celebrating the special the unique & the sheer bloody brilliant And Another Thing is a hilarious collection of Jeremy's Sunday Times columns & the second in his The World According to Clarkson series which also

Includes:: The World According to Clarkson For Crying Out Loud! & How Hard Can It Be? Praise for Jeremy Clarkson' Brilliant laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph' Outrageously funny will have you in stitches' Time Out Number-one bestseller Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections Born To Be Riled Clarkson On Cars Don't Stop Me Now Driven To Distraction Round the Bend Motorworld & I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store Jeremy Clarkson because his writing career on the Rotherham Advertiser Since then he has written for the Sun & the Sunday Times Today he is the tallest person working in British television & is the presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear



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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 Roger Vadim directs this remake of his own 1956 film starring Rebecca de Mornay as a wilful woman determined to have a good time After her exuberant & carefree nature lands her in jail Robin Shea (de Mornay) is advised by the prison governor (Frank Langella) that marriage to a respectable man will win her freedom She duly weds carpenter Billy Moran (Vincent Spano) a responsible family man who seems certain to have problems keeping his new bride in check Robin sets about pursuing her dream of rock stardom with the accompanying reckless behaviour but will Billy help her develop a new perspective on life? Actors Rebecca de Mornay Vincent Spano Frank Langella Donovan Leitch Judith Chapman Directors Roger Vadim Producers George Gregory Braunstein Ron Hamady Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play & Hope to Die is a 1972 crime drama directed by Rene Clement (Forbidden Games violet Noon) A French fugitive (Jean-Louis Trintignant Z The Conformist) heads to Canada where he ends up joining forces with a criminal gang who are plotting a kidnapping However things don’t go quite as planned when the crime lords daughter they plan to kidnap accidently dies ...

With the world at her feet & Californian railroad fortunes in her purse Aimee had a tale or two to tell Here she boldly delivers her hilarious memoirs of escaping headhunters in Borneo avoiding poisoning in Hong Kong & outwitting murder in Shanghai Not remotely cowered by her skirmishes with sin shame or vice Aimee celebrates her quintet of unfortunate husbands including a Russian prince almost forty years her junior & King Kalakaua of Hawaii emboldened by her forcefulness to hold sway over the faint of heart Aimee was a woman of means not always a lady & never what you might call 'proper' In this laugh-out-loud story of her life she recounts her adventures with flair invincibility & unapologetic gusto ...

And Mother Makes Three was an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig (Butterflies Not in Front of the Children) showcasing her talents as a harassed slightly dotty single mother doing her best to bring up two rather challenging sons Quite innocently & with the best will in the world widow Sally Harrison has a great facility for putting her foot in it
- in fact both feet right up to her neck Somehow she always manages to win through in the end but not before dealing with an array of problems involving sons Simon & Peter Auntie Flo boss Mr Campbell & the new man in her life
- antiquarian book expert & widower David Redway & Mother Makes Three originally aired between 1971 & 1973 & is produced & directed by sitcom legend Peter Frazer Jones (Never the Twain); this complete set brings together all four series for the first time on DVD Actors Wendy Craig George Selway Robin Davies Format Box set PAL Language English Region Region 2 Number of discs 4 Classification 12 Studio Network DVD Release Date 8 Nov 2010 Run Time 650 minutes

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' Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens This lens is the secret of narration & it is ground anew in every story ground between the temporal & the timeless In our brief mortal lives we are grinders of these lenses' When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book it was to become a sensation translated into nine languages & indelible from the minds of those who read it This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry & thoughts on mortality art love & absence capturing moments in time that hover above Berger's surprising landscapes From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio & profound explorations of death & immigration to the sight of some lilac at dusk in the mountains this is a beautiful & most intimate response to the world around us ...

Tracklist Run Home These Secret Kings I Know Wasps Redesigned A Million Times People Not Sleeping Fucking Lifer A Beacon A Compass An Anchor Animal Ghosts Heirs Tryer You ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Michael Douglas & Diane Keaton star in this comedy directed by Rob Reiner Selfish egocentric real estate agent Oren (Douglas)&s whole life changes when he gets an unexpected knock at the door his estranged son arrives at the house with a daughter he knew nothing about & he unassumingly takes on the role of granddad Realising he has no idea how to take care of a child he accepts the help of his caring neighbour Leah (Keaton) As Oren slowly learns how to love & care for another human being his self-centred lifestyle begins to take a backseat ...