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Maggie Smith & Hugh Bonneville
Christmas at Downton Abbey [ Universal Pictures / DVD - released 9/Feb/2012 ] Christmas 1919. Downton Abbey is hosting a lavish Christmas party, yet despite being the season of goodwill, tensions are rife and Bates's arrest has cast a shadow over the festivities. |
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Home by Christmas
[ Gaylene Preston DVD / DVD - released 6/Oct/2010 ] Home by Christmas sees Gaylene Preston returning to the hidden stories of ordinary New Zealanders. Inspired by attempts to get her father Ed to reveal his WWII experiences, this finely-balanced docu-drama moves between three strands: Preston's father... |
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The Office - Christmas Specials
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 13/Dec/2005 ] M: Contains offensive language and sexual references. Three years after the cameras stopped rolling, the BBC returns to Wernham Hogg to catch up with the staff, past and present, of the most famous paper merchants in Slough. Gareth is now office... |
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Andrea Bocelli & Charlotte Church
Christmas Glory From Westminster [ BBC Heritage DVD / DVD ] Home Vision Cinema presents Christmas Glory From Westminster. This program features poetry and music from celebrities from the worlds of film and opera. Readings include Greta Scacchi reciting William Blake's The Lamb and Joan Plowright reading... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (recorded in December, 1999) Claron McFadden, sop, Bernarda Fink, alto, Christoph Genz, tenor, Dietrich Henschel, bass / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloist, Eliot Gardiner [ EuroArts DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach paintings, the Monteverdi Choir and the English... |
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TRADITIONAL
Carols from King's The Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury [ BBC DVD / DVD - released 14/Nov/2014 ] 'Carols from King's' is a cornerstone of the BBC's Christmas programming output, traditionally shown on both Christmas Eve and Christmas day. Along with the live radio broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this pre-recorded special... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Ten & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House out of its financial quandary. Dr Turner deals... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Eleven & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The return of the multi-award-winning drama, which regularly draws in audiences of over 10 million.Following an eventful Christmas special, the series continues with an episode set in Easter 1967. Celebrations are underway for a colourful Easter... |
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Call The Midwife: Series Nine & Christmas Special
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The nurses and nuns of Nonnatus House welcome you back for more heartwarming adventures in London's Poplar district, where slum clearances transform lives in 1965. Approaching each new birth with tenderness, optimism and skill, the midwives deal... |
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Kiwi Christmas
[ Madman / DVD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] T'was the week before Christmas...! Disillusioned with the materialism of the season, Santa throws in his job and goes as far from the North Pole as possible... New Zealand! When his reindeerless-sleigh crashes and sinks in the waters off... |
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One Foot in the Grave: Complete Series 1 - 6 + Christmas Specials
[ BBC DVD / 12 DVD Box Set - released 12/Jun/2025 ] Crabby and cranky, ill tempered and irritable - all these things and more combined to make the character of Victor Meldrew (Richard Wilson), one of the best loved in the history of British comedy. Containing all six wonderful series, each of the... |
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The Larkins: Series One incl. The Larkins At Christmas Special
[ Acorn Media DVD / DVD - released 21/Apr/2022 ] The Larkins is the brilliant new incarnation of H.E. Bates' beloved The Darling Buds of May. Set in the late 1950s, the six-part drama follows the story of the Larkin family led by the golden-hearted, entrepreneurial man, Pop Larkin and his wife Ma.... |
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Midsomer Murders - Complete Season 10 - 11 (Plus Christmas Special) (11 DVD)
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / 11 DVD Box Set - released 15/Aug/2012 ] Nothing is quite as it seems behind the closed doors of Midsomer County's chocolate-box cottages and picture perfect English countryside. The rural neighbourhoods are a hotbed of jealousy, intrigue, betrayal and murder as D.C.I. Tom Barnaby and his... |
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Outrageous Fortune: A Very Westie Christmas
[ South Pacific Pictures / DVD - released 7/Dec/2011 ] It's the festive season once again in New Zealand and the West family is divided on their annual Christmas-New Year sojourn to their favourite spot, Tutaekuri Bay. As we revisit the family: Cheryl is a walking emotional disaster zone; Van is... |
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Andre Rieu
The Christmas I Love [ Universal Music DVD / 2 DVD/CD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] 'The Christmas I Love' is a very special Christmas gift - a collection of some of the most tender carols personally chosen by Andre for this album and performed with the full forces of the Johann Strauss Orchestra and Choir. All the popular... |
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TRADITIONAL
Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers [CD & DVD] Jeannette Sorrell (harpsichord & conductor) & Meredith Hall (soprano) / Apollo's Fire [ Avie / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Nov/2012 ] "This type of fusion is increasingly popular, and Apollo's Fire do it enthusiastically, if perhaps without the final degree of finessed musicality that other ensembles bring to this type of project" (BBC Music) |
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J. S. BACH
Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Dorothee Mields, Damien Guillon, Thomas Hobbs, Peter Kooij / Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] G :- "For Bach´s Brandenburg Concertos we got to Cöthen Palace, and find the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in a lovely room, standing round in a semi-circle..the sense of pleasure the players radiate is strong." BBC Music Magazine |
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NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (complete opera recorded in 2021) Frankfurt Opera / Julia Muzychenko, Enkelejda Shkoza, Alexey Tikhomirov, Anthony Robin Schneider / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Composed using his own libretto, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov created this magical opera based on the short story by Nikolay Gogol 'The Night before Christmas' in which Vakula the handsome blacksmith wants to marry the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who... |
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Jamie Oliver
Jamie's Christmas [ Kaleidoscope Fillm & DVD / Shock Entertainment Group / DVD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] Does the thought of cooking Christmas dinner fill you with dread? Does it bring back memories of dry turkey or burnt carrots!? If the anser is 'yes', then don't worry! This DVD will show you how to prepare in advance and how to cook on the day so... |
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Johnny Cash
Christmas Specials 1976-79 [ Columbia Records DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2008 ] |