BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 6
[ BBC DVD / 5 DVD - released 3/Dec/2015 ] In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised... |
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 7
[ ViaVision Entertainment DVD / 5 DVD - released 14/Jan/2016 ] In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised... |
Jane Austen's Sanditon - Season Three
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD Box Set - released 22/Jan/2020 ] The hugely popular period drama based on Jane Austen's unfinished story returns For Season 3. Your invitation awaits for more grand parties, wise and outspoken women, and lovely friendships that stand the test of time and circumstances. But many... |
Planet Earth III
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] Completing the Planet Earth trilogy, Planet Earth III explores the greatest habitats on our planet and the extraordinary animals that live in them. Filled with wonder and insight, Planet Earth III celebrates places and animals beyond our... |
Small Axe
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2022 ] The first television project from Oscar and BAFTA-winning British director Steve McQueen, this series of films for TV is based on the real-life experiences of London's West Indian community. Set between 1969 and 1982, these standalone stories... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Water Music - Recreating a Royal Spectacular The English Consort, Andrew Manze [ Kultur / BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Filmed on the River Thames with the English Concert. Directed by Andrew Manze. |
LIVE AT THE BBC PROMS
The King's Singers Live at the BBC Proms The King's Singers [ Signum Vision DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] A live and televised recording from this year's BBC Proms performance on 5th August by the most famous a cappella group ever: the King's Singers. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (complete opera recorded in 2011) Royal Opera House / Simon Keenlyside, Liudmyla Monastryrska, Raymond Aceto / Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Opus Arte / BBC DVD / DVD - released 20/Apr/2012 ] "Lloyd's Covent Garden staging of Verdi's opera has a good deal going for it; there's plenty of atmosphere in Anthony Ward's aptly dark-toned sets...Keenlyside sings the title role with imagination and insight" (BBC Music) |
Africa - Eye to Eye with the Unknown (David Attenborough)
[ BBC DVD / DVD - released 8/Apr/2020 ] This is the world's wildest continent as you've never seen it before - an intense sensory adventure from the Atlas Mountains, through the Savannah lands to the Cape of Good Hope and from the Roof of Africa and the Kalahari to where the dark... |
All Creatures Great And Small Complete Collection
[ BBC DVD / 28 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] All 91 episodes of the 1980's BBC drama series following events in a veterinary practice supporting the local farming community in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. Based on James Herriot's autobiographical bestsellers 'If Only They Could Talk' and... |
An Idiot Abroad
[ BBC / 2 DVD - released 8/Jun/2011 ] In this hilarious series Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their friend Karl Pilkington around the world... against his will. Karl thinks he's visiting the Seven Wonders but along the way the Little Englander must endure camel rides, jungle... |
BBC Shakespeare Collection: Series 2
[ BBC DVD / 6 DVD - released 11/Jun/2015 ] In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances... |
Blue Planet: The Collection
[ BBC DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2020 ] THE BLUE PLANET: The Blue Planet is the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans. Narrated by David Attenborough, the extraordinary images of this marine epic reveal the sea at its most fearsome and alluring,... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Death In Paradise: Series Ten
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The smash-hit whodunit returns, as D.I. Neville Parker attempts to solve a slew of mysterious murders in the sun-soaked Caribbean. The hugely popular comedy-drama is back for its tenth anniversary series with its usual combination of baffling... |
Death In Paradise: Series 11
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The sun-soaked, smash-hit whodunnit returns for more murder mysteries with a light touch and a warm heart. DI Neville Parker has more crimes to solve on the blissful island of Saint Marie, while also dealing with the emotional complications of... |
Earth From Space
[ BBC DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/May/2020 ] Cameras in space tell stories of life on our planet from a brand new perspective, revealing new discoveries, incredible colours and patterns, and just how fast it is changing. |
Father Brown: Series 9
[ BBC DVD / 3 DVD - released 11/Apr/2024 ] The beautiful English countryside is the setting for more charming mysteries featuring the charismatic clergyman sleuth. The year is 1953, and the sleepy Cotswold village of Kembleford is stirred by such dastardly deeds as murder at the local... |