Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Michael Palin&s first televised travel adventure was screened as part of the BBC series Great Railway Journeys & Confessions of a Train Spotter& (1980) saw him travel the length of Britain by train Setting off from Euston he

Includes:: diversions to lines beyond the inter-cty network Palin&s second Great Railway Journey (1994) takes him from the ancient walled city of Londonderry to the most western tip of Ireland He travels his &family line& as he attempts to trace his great grandmother who left Irleand for the USA over 150 years ago Actors Michael Palin Certificate Exempt from Classification Languages English

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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 Michael Palin goes on another jaunt round the world tracing the steps of famous author Ernest Hemingway This 1999 BBC documentary was produced to coincide with Ernest Hemingway&s centenary Michael Palin makes his way round the writer&s old haunts from Paris to Pamplona Milan to Montana & Kilimanjaro to Key West in his attempt to discover the man behind the legend a hard-drinking womaniser who liked cats & shooting
- but wrote like a dream & left an indelible impression on the twentieth century through his work
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Intrepid television explorer Michael Palin takes us on a fascinating journey behind the former Iron Curtain Palin embarks upon a trip that starts in the mountains of Slovenia & takes through Croatia Albania The Ukraine former East Germany & Latvia showcasing an undiscovered part of our continent that&s as beautiful as it is mysterious ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Welcome to The Michael Parkinson Collection my personal choice of the best moments from over 2000 interviews from the entire back catalogue of Parkinson Join me as I take you on a tour of the most important cultural figures of the 20th & 21st century that I was lucky enough to meet The Michael Parkinson Collection remembers the time I met the great stars of the golden period of Hollywood & then charted the rise of the modern superstars It celebrates comic genius in all its forms & looks back to the times I basked in the charms of the world&s most bewitching women & lauded the greatest sportsmen of their generation including that most singular man Muhammad Ali It

Includes:: eyewitness accounts of a generation who lived through & fought in two World Wars & the thoughts of poets scientists & politicians You&ll find out who my all time favourite guests were plus what happened when I met Meg & what it&s really like interviewing an Emu The Michael Parkinson Collection
- a reminder that for over 40 years I had the best job in the world Enjoy Actors Michael Parkinson Certificate PG Languages English Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players



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Tracklist Death & The Lady The Jolly Highwayman Lisa Lan Ladies Don't Go A-Thievin' Robin Hood's Dance Staines Morris La Folia Saraband Adson's Saraband Saraband The Lichfield Greenhill Bower Processional The Captain's Apprentice Can Y Melinyd Troseg Y Gareg Sarah Collins The White Gloves La Russe Waltz Paris Polka The Queen Of The Night ...

From Agard to Zephaniah the very best of children's poetry from the very best of children's poets appears in this wonderful & exciting anthology edited by Michael Rosen the Children's Laureate Coinciding with his laureateship & a very welcome public promotion of the need for children's poetry in our education system this future classic for Puffin will delight readers young & old & make the perfect gift ...

Michael Rosen's collection of nonsense verse with rhymes poems wordplay & limericks In the best tradition of nonsense verse here are poems to make everyone smile & laugh out loud Children will delight in unraveling the meanings of the words & in creating their own nonsense verse Containing all the ingredients of Michael Rosen's poetry
- humour rhyme repetition & wordplay Covering all sorts of topics from football to Little Mary Anne who's made from elastic to dinosaurs' An enjoyable book which might stimulate children's own inclinations to mess about with language'
- Books for Keeps' The author has a child's ear for word sound & an eye for nutty humour Clare Mackie's crackling illustrations add verve & vigour to each page'
- Junior Education


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Are you pink & green? Are you totally obscene? Can you pick your nose? With your stubby little toes? Let your imagination run riot & laughter fill your belly as you explore traditional poems rhymes with a twist & subversive playground favourites in this playful treasure chest of verse ...

A heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates Very occasionally the term non-fiction has to stretch itself to accommodate a book that fits into no category at all Michael Rosen's Sad Book is such a book It chronicles Michael's grief at the death of his son Eddie from meningitis at the age of 19 A moving combination of sincerity & simplicity it acknowledges that sadness is not always avoidable or reasonable & perfects the art of making complicated feelings plain It wasn't made like any other book either; Michael Rosen said of the text I wrote it at a moment of extreme feeling & it went straight down onto the page Quentin didn't illustrate it he 'realized' it He turned the text into a book & as a result showed me back to myself No writer could ask & get more than that & Quentin Blake says that the picture of Michael being sad but trying to look happy is the most difficult drawing he's ever done a moving experience ...

Tracklist A1 Silberstreif 440 A2 Elfenbein 525 A3 Erlknig 713 B1 Fortuna 625 B2 Klangkrper 458 B3 Hohe Luft 454 B4 Fernwrme 318 ...