Cute corgis in Buckingham Palace a riotous romp around London a fabulously festive love story its a recipe for the perfect Christmas picture book! 32 pages Hay Sam ...

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
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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
- We Wish You a Merry Christmas Deck the Halls Do You Want to Build a Snowman? Christmas Is Coming
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Includes:: the entire first season of the popular & critically acclaimed BBC television

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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 ...

' Indispensable & subversive'
- Simon Caulkin The Observer'A highly entertaining polemic This slim volume more than lives up to
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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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