Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A century ago the tram was used by people in cities & towns all around the British Isles From London to Liverpool Blackpool to Glasgow the sound of steel on steel was a part of everyday life but by the early sixties the vast majority had disappeared & the golden era of the tram seemed to be at an end Now however a new generation of tramways has appeared ensuring that this beautiful & efficient form of transport thrives once more This brand new DVD traces the rise fall & rise again of the passenger street tram in Britain It begins with the introduction of the horse tram by the American George Francis Train to Birkenhead in 1860 & then explores the story of the tram from horse to steam to electrified tramcar & the rapid growth of trams at the turn of the 20th century It charts the gradual demise of the first generation of trams after the Great War & their complete disappearance from the urban transport network in the 1960s to their resurgence in the 1990s in Manchester The film also features the latest £100 million tramway system opened in Blackpool in 2012HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE The Great Orme Tramway A trip on Blackpool s new Bombardier Flexity 2 Tramway Behind the scenes with Tf L s London Tramlink including a visit to the depot A visit to the National Tramways Museum at Crich ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A race against time between the hunter & the hunted Gillian Anderson (Great Expectations The X Files) stars as DSI Gibson who arrives in Belfast on secondment from the MET to conduct a review into a high profile murder case where the police are getting nowhere She quickly realises that the case is linked to others & that there is a deadly serial killer at large Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time Shadows in the Sun) stars as the serial killer Paul Spectre who stalks his victims at random in & around Belfast Written by Allan Cubitt (The Runaway Murphy&s Law Prime Suspect) The Fall is a gripping psychological thriller that follows the police investigation uncovering the intricate story of the lives entangled by a series of murders
- both the killer&s & the victims& families The clock is ticking Actors Gillian Anderson Seainín Brennan Michael Colgan Chris Corrigan Jill Crawford Joanne Crawford Ekaterina de Rossi Simon Delaney Laura Donnelly Jamie Dornan Aisling Franciosi Stuart Graham Johnny Hamilton Karen Hassan & BJ Hogg Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Subtitles English Duration 5 hours (approx)
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A philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as 'perhaps the most beautiful & the least understood' of his novels Albert Camus' The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics Jean-Baptiste Clamence is a soul in turmoil Over several drunken nights in an Amsterdam bar he regales a chance acquaintance with his story From this successful former lawyer & seemingly model citizen a compelling self-loathing catalogue of guilt hypocrisy & alienation pours forth The Fall (1956) is a brilliant portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment Camus's novel exposes the universal human condition & its absurdities
- for our innocence that once lost can never be recaptured Albert Camus (1913-60) is the author of a number of best-selling & highly influential works all of which are published by Penguin They include The Fall The Outsider & The First Man Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Camus is remembered as one of the few writers to have shaped the intellectual climate of post-war France but beyond that his fame has been international If you enjoyed The Fall you might like Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea also available in Penguin Modern Classics' An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience' The New York Times' Camus is the accused his own prosecutor & advocate The Fall might have been called The Last Judgement ' Olivier Todd
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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 Crime drama screened on the BBC starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case Though her superiors aren&t convinced Stella Gibson (Anderson)&s investigations lead her to believe that a serial killer is at work Meanwhile the killer Paul Spectre (Jamie Dornan) stalks his next target solicitor Sarah Kay (Laura Donnelly) The episodes are & Dark Descent& & Darkness Visible& & Insolence & Wine& & My Adventurous Song& & & The Vast Abyss& ...

The complete first season of the 1980s US TV drama Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) is a Hollywood stunt man who does some bounty hunting in his spare time Aided & abetted by his sidekicks cousin Howie (Douglas Barr) & the gorgeous Jody (Heather Thomas) Colt&s an all round nice guy who&ll help out any buddy in a jam The episodes comprise & The Fall Guy Part 1& & The Fall Guy Part 2& & The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda& & The Rich Get Richer& & That&s Right We&re Bad& & Colt&s Angels& & The Human Torch& & The Japanese Connection& & No Way Out& & License to Kill Part 1& & Goin& for It& & The Adventures of Ozzie & Harold& & Soldiers of Misfortune& & Die Ready Aim& & Ladies On the Ropes& & The Snow Job& & Guess Who&s Coming to Town& & Child&s Play& & Charlie& & Three for the Road& & The Silent Partner& & & Scavenger Hunt& ...

A classic returns from legendary author Marion Zimmer Bradley with a br&-new cover Powers of light & darkness vie for supremacy in a world of ancient splendor A wounded Atlantean prince washed up on a foreign shore becomes the focal point in an epic battle between good & evil when the full extent of his powers becomes known At one corner are the Priests of the White Robe guardians of powerful natural forces which could threaten the world if misused; on the other side are the Black Robes priests who seek to master these forces for their own benefit Caught in the middle are the sisters Deoris & Domaris whose lives are drawn into a web of powerful sorcery conjured by the priests
- the same sorcery which will cause The Fall of Atlantis!
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The Fall of Five is the heartstopping fourth installment in the Lorien Legacies series by Pittacus Lore I thought things would change when I found the others We would stop running We would fight the Mogadorians & we would win But I was wrong Even though we have come together we barely escaped from them with our lives & now we're in hiding figuring out our next move The six of us are powerful
- but not strong enough to take on their entire army We haven't discovered the full extent of our Legacies We haven't learned to work together Time is running out & there's only one thing we know for certain We need to find Number Five before they do They caught Number One in Malaysia Number Two in England And Number Three in Kenya I am Number Four I was supposed to be next But I'm still alive This battle is far from over Praise for Pittacus Lore' Tense exciting full of energy' Observer' Relentlessly readable' The Times' Tense keeps you wondering' Sunday Times' Set to eclipse Harry Potter & moody vampires Pittacus Lore is about to become one of the hottest names on the planet' Big Issue The first book in Pittacus Lore's Lorien Legacies series I Am Number Four is now a major Disney motion picture & along with The Power of Six & The Rise of Nine perfect for fans of The Hunger Games
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On 16 May 1940 an emergency meeting of the French High Command was called at the Quai d' Orsay in Paris The German army had broken through the French lines on the River Meuse at Sedan & elsewhere only five days after launching their attack Churchill who had been telephoned by Prime Minister Reynaud the previous evening to be told that the French were beaten rushed to Paris to meet the French leaders The mood in the meeting was one of panic & despair; there was talk of evacuating Paris Churchill asked Gamelin the French Commander in Chief ' Where is the strategic reserve?' ' There is none' replied Gamelin This exciting book by Julian Jackson a leading historian of twentieth-century France charts the breathtakingly rapid events that led to the defeat & surrender of one of the greatest bastions of the Western Allies & thus to a dramatic new phase of the Second World War The search for scapegoats for the most humiliating military disaster in French history began almost at once were miscalculations by military leaders to blame or was this an indictment of an entire nation? Using eyewitness accounts memoirs & diaries Julian Jackson recreates in gripping detail the intense atmosphere & dramatic events of these six weeks in 1940 unravelling the historical evidence to produce a fresh answer to the perennial question of whether the fall of France was inevitable ...

In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941 He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts & coup plots to build a modern pro-Western state & launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship & marriage to Farah Diba who became a power in her own right the beloved family they created & an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the lranian Revolution Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there leading lranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter & White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan & his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself & the rest of the lranian imperial family Intimate & sweeping at once The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic & final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East ...

' Drawn on by his eagerness for the open sky he left his guide & soared upwards' Ovid tells the tales of Theseus & the Minotaur Daedalus & Icarus the Calydonian Boar-Hunt & many other famous myths Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Ovid (c 43 BCE-17 CE) Ovid's other works available in Penguin Classics are The Erotic Poems Fasti Heroides & Metamorphoses ...