Spanning 1979-1987 The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday ' Heartbreaking a delight a lovely comfy book' The Times' Perfect prose & excruciating honesty A grand reminiscence of college & theatre & comedyland in the 1980s with tone-perfect anecdotes & genuine readerly excitement What Fry does essentially is tell us who he really is Above all else a thoughtful book & namedroppy too & funny & marbled with melancholy' Observer' Arguably the greatest living Englishman' Independent on Sunday' Extremely enjoyable' Sunday Times' Fry's linguistic facility remains one of the Wildean wonders of the new media age The patron saint of British intelligence' Daily Telegraph ...

Spanning 1979-1987 The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen Fry's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday ' Heartbreaking a delight a lovely comfy book' The Times ' Perfect prose & excruciating honesty A grand reminiscence of college & theatre & comedyland in the 1980s with tone-perfect anecdotes & genuine readerly excitement What Fry does essentially is tell us who he really is Above all else a thoughtful book & namedroppy too & funny & marbled with melancholy' Observer ' Arguably the greatest living Englishman' Independent on Sunday ' Extremely enjoyable' Sunday Times ' Fry's linguistic facility remains one of the Wildean wonders of the new media age The patron saint of British intelligence' Daily Telegraph Welcome to Stephen Fry's The Fry Chronicles one of the boldest bravest most revealing & heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading Stephen Fry's film stage radio & television credits are so numerous & wide-ranging that there is not space here to do them justice It is enough to say that he has written produced directed acted in or presented productions as varied as Wilde the TV series Blackadder & Jeeves & Wooster the sketch show A Bit of Fry & Laurie the panel game QI the radio series Fry's English Delight & documentaries on subjects as varied as manic depression disappearing animals & the United States of America He's also the bestselling author of four novels
- The Stars' Tennis Balls Making History The Hippopotamus & The Liar
- as well as a volume of autobiography Moab is My Washpot & sundry works of non-fiction

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Catch him if you can ' The Fugitive' is on the run! Harrison Ford & Tommy Lee Jones race through the breathless manhunt movie based on the classic TV series Ford is prison escapee Dr Richard Kimble a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife & determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime Jones (1993 Academy Award & Golden Globe winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard an unrelenting bloodhound of a US Marshal They are hunted & hunter & as directed by Andrew Davis (Under Siege) their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed all-out So catch him if you can & catch an 11-on-a-scale-of-10 train wreck (yes the train is real) a plunge down a waterfall a cat-&-mouse jaunt through a Chicago St Patrick's Day parade & much more Better hurry; Kimble doesn't stay in one place very long! Special Features Commentary by Tommy Lee Jones & director Andrew Davis Introductions by Andrew Davis 2 exciting Documentries
- Derailed Anatomy of a train wreck
- On the run with the fugitive Theatrical Trailer Language English German French Subtitles English French German Approx Run Time 130 Mins

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Marlon Brando stars as Valentine ' Snakeskin' Xavier a trouble-prone drifter who wanders into a deliciously Williamsesque Mississippi town Here he becomes involved in the problems of alcoholic Carole Cutrere (Joanne Woodward) & unhappily married Lady Torrence (Anna Magnani) & also runs afoul of Torrence's vicious husband (Victor Jory) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Fugitive is the hugely popular classic 1960s television series that inspired two Hollywood blockbusters & stars David Janssen as Dr Richard Kimble a physician wrongly accused of murdering his wife When his train crashes en route to Death Row Kimble breaks free from the custody of Lt Gerard & runs for his life Fleeing from town to town switching identities & toiling at countless jobs fuels Kimble&s obsession to catch the real killer – a one-armed man he saw leaving the scene of the crime His obsession is matched only by Gerard&s who blames himself for Kimble&s escape & who will stop at nothing to recapture him The Fugitive was widely considered a groundbreaking television series in its heyday with an engaging storyline & excellent direction ...

In a remote corner of a Latin American rainforest Father Thomas a Catholic priest comes across a badly wounded soldier & takes him to his church in an Indian village The Indians whose traditional way of life is under threat from outsiders are wary of this latest new arrival Venustiano the proud young head of the village is determined to protect his people but feels powerless against the forces around him
- & can trust nobody not even Father Thomas But his immediate problem is the bloodthirsty jaguar prowling around the village for Venustiano is the only Indian with a gun & he means to use it
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Mma Ramotswe who became engaged to Mr JLB Matekoni at the end of the first book is still engaged She wonders when a day for the wedding will be named but she is anxious to avoid putting too much pressure on her fiance For indeed he has other things on his mind
- notably a frightening request made from him by Mma Potokwani pushy matron of the Orphan Farm Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind She has been approached by a wealthy lady
- whose fortune comes from successful hair-braiding salons
- & has been asked to check up on several suitors Are these men just interested in her money? This may be difficult to find out but Mma Ramotswe is of course a very intuitive lady


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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 Dole queue Job Club domestic discord
- the world is falling apart for six unemployed Sheffield steelworkers But one of them has had enough Determined to beat the system Gaz (Carlyle) hatches a plan that will make him & his friends serious rich
- & quickly! He convinces them that a strip routine will bring in the punters especially when that act reveals the ultimate
- the Full Monty! As our local heroes prepare for the big night word gets round that a very special act is about to storm the clubs of steel city Director Peter Cattaneo combines black comedy roaring hilarity & all the absurdity heartache & pathos of six men trying to keep body soul & dignity together Well just about! The most successful British film of all time The Full Monty also boasts a superb soundtrack with hits by Hot Chocolate & Tom Jones This is British drama at its funniest!


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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 THE FULL MONTY
- Six unemployed
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Bob Howard is an IT specialist & field agent for the Laundry the branch of Her Majesty's secret service that deals with occult threats Overworked & underpaid Bob is used to his two jobs overflowing from a strict nine to five & since his wife Mo has a very similar job description he understands that work will sometimes follow her home too But when 'work' involves zombie assassins & minions of a mad god's cult he realises things are spinning out of control When a top-secret dossier goes missing & his boss Angleton is implicated Bob must contend with suspiciously helpful Russian intelligence operatives & an unscrupulous apocalyptic cult before confronting the decades-old secret that lies at the heart of the Laundry what is so important about the missing Fuller Memorandum? & why are all the people who know dying ? ...