Three women once enemies Their secrets will unite them The First World War is over The war-torn area of Flanders near Ypres is no longer home to troops but groups of tourists Controversial battlefield tourism now brings hundreds of people to the area all desperate to witness first-hand where their loved ones fell At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt three women arrive searching for traces of the men they have loved & lost Ruby is just twenty-one a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America convinced her brother is in fact still alive Then there's Martha & her son Otto who are not all they seem to be The three women in Liz Trenow's In Love & War may have very different backgrounds but they are united in their search for reconciliation to resolve themselves to what the war took from them but also to what life might still promise for the future ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Oldshaw 1929; when you could enjoy a night out at the Theatre Royal a pint in the interval a hot pie on the way home
- & still have change from a shilling You could also have an argument with a brewer&s dray & end up as a client of Jeremiah Unsworth & Co Undertakers & Monumental Masons & be given one of the most disastrous funerals inthe long & noble history of undertaking Thora Hird (Last of the Summer Wine) brings her inimitable humour to the role of Ivy Unsworth in this much-loved comedy series set in a fictional Lancashire mill town As the widow of funeral director Jeremiah (who dies in the first episode) Ivy is left to run Unsworth & Co along with her equally accident-prone nephew Billy (Christopher Beeny
- Upstairs Downstairs) In Loving Memory was a huge success for Yorkshire Television & ran for five series between 1979 & 1986; this complete first series which also features appearances by Richard Wilson Liz Smith & Joan Sims was originally screened in 1979 Actors Thora Hird Christopher Beeny Freddie Jones Colin Farrell Avis Bunnage Richard Wilson Liz Smith & Joan Sims Certificate PGYear 1979
- 1986 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles None listed Duration 15 hours (approx)



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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 Modern day Hollywood & a self-proclaimed film legend bribes his son to document his death under the unquestioning assumption that it will be historically important The result In Memory Of My Father a twisted celebration of a Hollywood family narcissistically dealing with an eventfully frustrating day regardless of the distracting centerpiece which they&re forced to endure
- Daddy&s corpse With the tinted tonality of Six Feet Under & the inappropriate wit of Curb Your Enthusiasm Writer Director Actor Christopher Jaymes steers us through Daddy&s wake alongside his two brothers his ex his new teenage girlfriend his Dad&s shopaholic twenty-something partner & a host of neurotic relatives & friends Actors Christopher Jaymes Judy Greer Jeremy Sisto Nicholle Tom Christine Lakin Pat Healey Eric Michael Cole Monet Mazur Matt Keeslar Meadow Sisto Todd Rulapaugh Tom Carroll David Austin & Andrew Henry Director Christopher Jaymes Certificate 15 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 169 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Duration 1 hour & 32 minutes (approx)

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The real revolution in the arts first took place not as is commonly supposed in the 1920s to the accompaniment of the Charleston black jazz & mint juleps but more quietly & intimately in the shadow of the windmills This book tells about life in the bohemian world of art in Paris between 1900-1910 384 pages Roe Sue ...

Matthew Mac Fadyen stars in this tense drama based on the novel by Maurice Gee Paul Prior (Mac Fadyen) is an internationally respected war photographer who returns to his small New Zealand home town after the death of his father His estranged brother Andrew (Colin Moy) is shocked to see him & despite their differences Paul agrees to remain behind to help sort out the sale of their father&s estate Looking around the broken-down estate Paul comes across 16-year-old Celia (Emily Barclay) an aspiring writer Paul is unaware that Celia is in fact his daughter from a teenage relationship with local woman Jackie (Jodie Rimmer) & when he takes up a temporary position teaching journalism at the school he finds that Celia is one of his pupils Despite the disapproval of Jackie & Andrew & of the community at large the unwitting pair meet regularly & begin to form a strong emotional bond When Celia goes missing suspicion instantly falls on Paul & as the truth begins to dawn on him he is forced to confront the family tragedies & betrayals that he ran away from as a youth Actors Matthew Macfadyen Miranda Otto Emily Barclay Colin Moy Jimmy Keen Directors Brad Mc Gann Writers Brad Mc Gann Maurice Gee Producers Dixie Linder James Mitchell Jim Reeve Paul Mitchell Paul Trijbits Format PALRegion Region 2 Number of discs 1 Classification 15 Studio Studiocanal DVD Release Date 2 Oct 2005 Run Time 125 minutes ...

Battles blockades convoys raids how the indefatigable British Royal Navy ensured Napoleon's ultimate defeat Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over This groundbreaking book asserts that contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy's task the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade ceasing only with Napoleon's final surrender In this dramatic account of naval contributions between 1803 & 1815 James Davey offers original & exciting insights into the Napoleonic wars & Britain's maritime history Encompassing Trafalgar the Peninsular War the War of 1812 the final campaign against Napoleon & many lesser known but likewise crucial moments the book sheds light on the experiences of individuals high & low from admiral & captain to sailor & cabin boy The cast of characters also

Includes:: others from across Britain-dockyard workers politicians civilians-who made fundamental contributions to the war effort & in so doing both saved the nation & shaped Britain's history

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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 After safely delivering the cash after selling his employer&s cattle Roy is blamed when the employer is robbed Roy & Gabby go off in pursuit of the real robbers even though both sides are out to stop him Actors Roy Rogers Directors Joseph Kane Language English Number of discs 1 ...

'I am most grateful for two things that I was born in North Korea & that I escaped from North Korea' Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea She didn't even know what it meant to be free All she knew was that she was running for her life that if she & her family stayed behind they would die
- from starvation or disease or even execution This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers & human traffickers; & then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia with only the stars to guide her way & from there to South Korea & at last to freedom; & finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist
- all before her 21st birthday

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In Other Words is a revelation It is at heart a love story of a long & sometimes difficult courtship & a passion that verges on obsession that of a writer for another language For Jhumpa Lahiri that love was for Italian which first captivated & capsized her during a trip to Florence after college Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterwards true mastery had always eluded her Seeking full immersion she decided to move to Rome with her family for a trial by fire a sort of baptism' into a new language & world There she began to read & to write
- initially in her journal
- solely in Italian In Other Words an autobiographical work written in Italian investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language & describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice Presented in a dual-language format this is a wholly original book about exile linguistic & otherwise written with an intensity & clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov a startling act of self-reflection & a provocative exploration of belonging & reinvention

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A colourfully illustrated collection of more than ninety untranslatable words & phrases & the unique insights they offer into the cultures they come from 128 pages Illustrated in colour throughout Moore Christopher J ...