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Wonders of the Universe (2011)

Subject

Astronomy; Science

Distribution

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

Professor Brian Cox follows up his WONDERS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM series with this look at the universe; a series to answer some of the fundamental questions of existence. Tracing our origins from before the...

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Great Expectations (2011) (2012)

Director

Brian Kirk

Subject

English language and literature; Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 180 minutes), £19.99

Lavish BBC production of Dickens’ classic tale starring Douglas Booth as Pip, Gillian Anderson as Miss Havisham and David Suchet as Jaggers.

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Stephen Poliakoff Box Set (1999)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £59.99

Contains six dramas written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, shown on the BBC between 1980 and 2005: The Lost Prince, Perfect Strangers, Caught on a Train (dir. Duffell, 1980) Shooting the Past, Friends...

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David Attenborough’s First Life (2010)

Subject

Biology

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

From the fog bound coastline of Newfoundland to the deserts of North Africa and the rainforests of Queensland, Attenborough finds evidence in fossils and living animals of an extraordinary period in...

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London 2012 Olympic Games (2012)

Director

Danny Boyle; Kim Gavin

Subject

Media studies; Sports science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 420 minutes), £24.99

This 5 DVD set features both the entire opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as over seven hours of selected highlights from the games themselves, including the gold...

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Rise of the Continents, The (2013)

Subject

Geography; Geology

Distribution

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

Across the Earth, there are traces of a mysterious long-lost world. From seashells 8000 metres above sea-level, to species that seem to have jumped thousands of miles of ocean, there are tantalising clues to...

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Caught on a Train (1980 Video)

Director

Peter Duffell

Producer

Kenith Trodd

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £15.99

Television drama in which a young Englishman shares a train journey with a beautiful American girl and imperious Austrian woman, who has a profound and unsettling influence on him. It was inspired by a...

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How we Built Britain (2007)

Subject

Architecture; Geography; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £19.99

A series of six programmes in which David Dimbleby travels around the country to present a social history of the nation through its buildings, revealing a thousand years of change written in architecture.

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Francesco’s Shakespeare (2006)

aka: Shakespeare in Italy

Nowhere fired Shakespeare’s Imagination quite like Italy. But as Francesco Da Mosto argues in this new two part series, Italian cities meant far more to our greatest author than just a sunlit setting....

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Arctic with Bruce Parry (2011)

Subject

Anthropology; Geography

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99 (DVD) ££24.99 (Blu-ray)

All five episodes of the BBC television series in which anthropologist Bruce Parry embarks on another epic journey of discovery, exploring the wonders of the Arctic. Over the course of one summer, he travels...

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