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  1. Thatcher: The Downing Street Years (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Denys Blakeway
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 125 min.

    Examines the clashes of personality, policy and ideology that went on behind the closed doors of Number Ten during Margaret Thatcher’s years as prime minister, particularly the enmity between Mrs Thatcher...

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  2. Persuasion (1999)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 102 minutes), £19.99

    A television adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel about the enduring power of love. England 1814 - Anne Elliott was persuaded to reject a young naval officer’s proposal years before, but now she...

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  3. Brimstone and Treacle (TV 1976) (1976 Video)

    Director
    Barry Davis
    Producer
    Kenith Trodd
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £5.99

    Dennis Potter’s controversial black comedy in which the devil in disguise involves himself with the family of a girl who is physically amd mentally disabled after a road accident. The film was banned for...

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  4. Day Today, The (2004)

    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 186 minutes), £19.99

    A satire by Steve Coogan on the conventions of British news broadcasting and the artificiality of presentation to which we have become inured. Includes ridiculous stories, patronising vox pops, offensively...

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  5. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)

    Subject
    Drama; English language and literature
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (337 minutes), £19.99 (retail) £125.00 BBC Learning)

    A television adaptation by David Lodge of the Charles Dickens novel, with Paul Schofield in the title role. Old Martin Chuzzlewit is very rich but paranoid that everyone is after his money. His grandson has...

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  6. Madame Bovary (2006)

    Director
    Tim Fywell; Tony Redston
    Producer
    Bernard Krichefski; Tony Redston
    Subject
    French studies; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 211 minutes), £15.99

    Television adaptation by Heidi Thomas of Gustave Flaubert’s novel, starring Frances O’Connor. The young daughter of a farmer marries a dull doctor ten years her senior and soon becomes bored. She embarks...

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  7. Pennies from Heaven (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £29.99

    A television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast in 6 weekly parts. Arthur, a salesman dealing in sheet music who can spot a hit song when he hears it, falls in love witha school teacher. When she discovers...

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  8. Boys from the Blackstuff (Episodes 1-5) (1982 Video)

    Director
    Philip Saville
    Producer
    Michael Wearing
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 308 minutes), £15.99

    A drama series made for television illustrating the indignities of unemployment and its inherent evils, skillfully blending black farce and tragedy. The story centres around a gang of tarmac layers from...

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  9. Casanova (2004)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    The Italian adventurer and libertine Giovanni Jacopo Casanova lived from 1725 to 1798, but in this six-part series Dennis Potter attempted to find a contemporary relevance through his central themes of sex...

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  10. 50 Years of BBC News (2004)

    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £9.99

    To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of BBC News on television, the BBC have produced a series of programmes that look back on the past five decades of BBC News. Incorporating groundbreaking stories with hard...

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