The sunlight & calm of the French Riviera have been a magnet for writers since the fourteenth century The Cote d' Azur has provided the inspiration & setting for some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth & twentieth centuries " The French Riviera A Literary Guide for Travellers" is a reader's journey along this fabled coast from Hyeres & St Tropez in the west to the Italian border in the east introducing the lives & work of writers who passed this way from distinguished Nobel laureates to new authors who found their voices there Ted Jones's encyclopaedic work covers them all writers such as Graham Greene & W Somerset Maugham who spent much of their lives there; F Scott Fitzgerald & Guy de Maupassant whose work it dominates; & the countless writers who simply lingered there including Louisa M Alcott Hans Christian Anderson J G Ballard Samuel Beckett Arnold Bennett William Boyd Bertholt Brecht Anthony Burgess Albert Camus Bruce Chatwin Joseph Conrad Charles Dickens T S Eliot Ian Fleming Ernest Hemingway Aldous Huxley James Joyce Rudyard Kipling D H Lawrence A AMilne Vladimir Nabokov Dorothy Parker Sylvia Plath Jean-Paul Sartre George Bernard Shaw Robert Louis Stevenson Anton Tchekhov Leo Tolstoy Evelyn Waugh H G Wells Oscar Wilde P G Wodehouse Virginia Woolf & W B Yeats
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Strange landscape-and farmers turning into revolutionaries to defend their homes First time ever released on DVD by the BBC Narrated by Eric Thompson (Magic Roundabout narrator father of actress Emma Thompson) Digitally Remastered Originally broadcast on BBC 1 this is the first of the hugely popular travel series that was followed by The Italian Way The Yugoslavian Way & The Irish Way In 1972 rural France was an unknown land to most Britons Michael Croucher then head of the famed BBC Bristol documentary unit journeyed through the region filming the everyday ways of the countryside & village life The result is this enchanting series which visits seven places-each revealing different aspects of a strange beautiful terrain & its people As a vivid record of France in a time past a rural idyll that has all but disappeared it is unsurpassed Episodes are GOOSEY GOOSEY GANDER Memories of the 1970s in the south of France It s called the land where the stomach is king a place where ambition is aimed at the table Perigord the home of truffles walnuts geese
- & men who are equal to them FRENCHMAN S HOLIDAY A lighthearted journey from the mountains to the plain-down the Dordogne NEW WINES & HARD TIMES On the edge of the Aubrac mountains in Central France as winter approaches the grapes are being picked & the cattle are making their long slow sad way from summer pastures down to the valleys THE BLACKSMITH THE BAKER THE BLOOD PUDDING MAKER & also an English castle on a French hill surrounded by the little town of Najac THEN TURN NOT PALE BELOVED SNAIL A market town a wedding & the last of the copper beaters all in Villefranche de Rouergue DESASTRE CATASTROPHE CATACLYSME APOCALYPSE A very English occasion-the days it rained on the Fete at Carennac ADD PENICILLINSTIR WELL Sheep & high plains-cheese & tanks a remote strange landscape-and farmers turning into revolutionaries to defend their homes

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Tracklist Tongue In My Cheek Don't Look Down Seven Directions Summer Wheels Double Sided Woman Sunglasses I'm A Puppet Deviants Within Bomb Wombs Ooh I Got Got Stranger In My House Pile Of Bones Bonus Flexi-Disc Every Saturday Night It Rains ...

Home is Where Who Let the Devil Bells of Paonia Animal of One I'm Awake Hummingbird April Fools Ballerina Candy Madness ...

The complete second season of the cult comedy series starring Will Smith Episodes are & Did The Earth Move For You?& & The Mother Of All Battles& & Will Gets A Job& &PSAT Pstory& & Granny Get&s Busy& & Guess Who&s Coming To Marry?& & The Big Four-Oh& & She Ain&t Heavy& & Cased Up& & Hi-Ho Silver& & The Butler Did It& & Something For Nothing& & Christmas Show& & Hilary Gets A Life& & My Brother&s Keeper& & Geoffrey Cleans Up& & Community Action& &&III Will& & Eyes On The Prize& & Those Were The Days& & Vying For Attention& & The Aunt Who Came To Diner& & Be My Baby Tonight& & Strip-Tease For Two& ...

Early 1960s crime drama starring Sean Connery as Paddy Damion a thief who is recruited by a mobster (Alfred Marks) to oversee his money collection Paddy is no thug but takes the job because his partner (Kenneth Griffith) has been injured in a robbery & he feels obligated to support him Marks is actually the puppet of criminal mastermind Zhernikov (Herbert Lom) who has the image of a respectable businessman but is in fact manipulating the local mobsters for his own ends Also in the mix are the beautiful Anya (Yvonne Romain) wannabe singer & Zhernikov&s mistress to whom Paddy immediately takes a shine & Sayers (John Gregson) the dedicated cop trying to crack open organised crime ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play After a serious car accident which killed his wife & left him in critical condition Architect Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) developed a gift that allows him to interact with the dead Still racked with guilt & disturbed from the crash Frank decides to put his Architect lifestyle on hold & use his new found skill for his own financial gain When a series of murders take place in his town leaving the victims with numbers engraved into their heads Frank thinks it’s time to put his skill to a more needed path & sets out to find the culprit of whom he believes to be the Grim Reaper himself Creepy & often hilarious horror from Oscar winning director Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings King Kong) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the sleepy little town of Fairwater a monstrous evil has awakenedan evil so powerful its reach extends beyond the grave Director Peter Jackson & executive Producer Robert Zemeckis unleash a riveting thriller with the most spectacular special effects this side of the hereafter For Frank Bannister (Michael J Fox) death is a great way to make a living ridding haunted houses of their unwelcome "guests" But he&s in cahoots with the very ghosts he promises to evict! It&s the perfect scamuntil frank finds himself at the centre of a dark mystery A diabolical spirit is on a murderous rampage & the whole town believes Frank is behind it Boasting music by Danny Elfman & co-starring Trini Alvarado Jeffrey Combs & John Astin this supernatural chiller is so fiendishly entertaining it&s scary! Actors Michael J Fox Trini Alvarado Peter Dobson John Astin Dee Wallace Stone Jeffrey Combs Jake Busey Chi Mc Bride R Lee Ermey & Elizabeth Hawthorne Director Peter Jackson Certificate 15 years & over Year 1996 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English ; French ; Italian ; Spanish
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Polish ; Czech ; German Subtitles English ; French ; German ; Dutch ; Swedish ; Norwegian ; Danish ; Finnish ; Portuguese Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx)
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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 NO COPS & ROBBERS NO CLANKING CHAINS NO WELL-WORN HORROR THEMES This powerful thriller anthology features instead a range of stories in which ordinary people are threatened by situations that slide startlingly menacingly out of control Featuring the talents of John Thaw Ian Holm Warren Clarke Ian Hendry Tom Bell Ray Smith & Robert Urquhart The Frighteners features thirteen haunting tales of malice & manipulation vengeance & mounting terror It features stories from acclaimed novelist & playwright William Trevor Bouquet of Barbed Wire author Andrea Newman Get Carter writerdirector Mike Hodges & Secret Army co-creator Wilfred Greatorex ...

After the Princess kissed the frog he turned into a handsome prince & they lived happily ever after or did they? The Princess can't stand the Prince's froggy habits
- the way he hops around on the furniture or sneaks off to the lily pond The Prince is unhappy too & decides that it would be best if he were changed back to a frog But finding a witch who will do the job is harder than he expects They all seem to have other spells in mind
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