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Testament of Youth (1979)

Director

Moira Armstrong

Producer

Jonathan Powell

Subject

Drama; Literature; Women’s studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 275 minutes), £19.99

Five-part BBC drama based on the celebrated autobiography of Vera Brittain, covering the years in between 1913 and 1925 and looking at the rise of feminism and the impact of the First World War.

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Long Shadow (2016)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £19.99

BBC documentary with historian David Reynolds who travels Europe exploring the very long historical shadow cast by World War I. Travelling from Slovenia to the Sudetenland, and from Belfast to Berlin, he...

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Portrait of a Lady, The (1967)

Director

James Cellan Jones

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 233 minutes), £19.99

In this version of the Henry James novel adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman, Suzanne Neve stars as the young Isabel Archer. On the death of her father, she refuses the hand of Mr. Goodwood and leaves her...

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Another Six English Towns

aka: Alec Clifton-Taylor Presents: Another Six English Towns

Subject

History

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £17.99

Alec Clifton-Taylor presents this documentary series looking at the history of six English towns: Cirencester in Gloucestershire, Whitby in Yorkshire, Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, Devizes in Wiltshire,...

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Digging for Britain (2011)

Subject

Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 240 minutes), £19.99

A four-part television series in which Dr Alice Roberts follows an entire year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations around the country. Each programme deals with sites...

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Rome: Empire Without Limit (2016)

aka: Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

Subject

Classical studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 235 minutes), £14.99

Mary Beard presents a four part investigation into ancient Rome, exploring the myths and origins of the city, the physical world of the Roman Empire, identity and citizenship within the Roman Empire and,...

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Gardens Through Time Series (7 Parts) (2004)

A television series made to celebrate the Royal Horticultural Society’s bicentenary. Two years in production, the series follows Diarmuid Gavin and Jane Owen as they create seven period gardens at the RHS...

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Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares Revisited (2006)

Subject

Business studies; Catering; FE

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 320 minutes), £24.99

A follow-up to the four-part series, broadcast on Channel 4 from 27/4/04 in which chef Gordon Ramsay went on the road to visit struggling restaurants and attempted to transform each business in the space of...

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Press

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 345 minutes), £17.99

Set in the offices of two competing newspaper outlets- broadsheet, The Herald, and tabloid, The Post- this BBC drama series follows journalists at each paper as they face up to the uncertainties of an...

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Stem Cell Universe (2014)

Subject

Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £6.99

Popular science documentary. The topic of stem cells has been a matter of great debate for our generation. No other subject straddles the line between life and death such as the question over the validity of...

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