Hetty is a 60-year-old housewife, a late bloomer, who sets up shop as a private eye to supplement her husband's meager pension. With moral authority, salt-of-the-earth candor, and a fully-loaded handbag, Hetty dispenses hard-boiled justice and motherly empathy in equally satisfying doses. Geoffrey, a destitute teenager, becomes Hetty's trusted and able sidekick. Her husband, Robert, also lends a hand. The bearded lady: Hetty turns 60 but refuses...

The pilot episode of the television program about an English housewife turned detective who solves a number of mysteries and crimes.

Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. "The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the "story" of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of Shakespeare's language intact. Specific stage directions...

An English housewife turned detective solves a number of mysteries and crimes. Something to treasure: Hetty and Geoffrey head to Cumbria, where a miner's widow enlists them in the search for a missing book penned by her late husband. The widow claims the book was stolen. But is she really after the book, or its map to a cache of precious minerals hidden somewhere inside the mine? Family values: When a wealthy client asks Hetty to investigate suspicious...

General Bucket: Convinced that Emmet is too overawed by her personality to invite her to join the cast of a musical, Hyacinth invites her dear neighbors over for coffee and bursts into inpromptu snatches of 1920s musicals. Meanwhile, Daisy attempts to seduce Onslow and Daddy is reliving the war. A bon vivant buffet: Although the musical for which she had auditioned is already fully cast, Hyacinth is convinced that Emmet is only too shy to offer her...

Poignant, funny, warm, tragic-- the acclaimed monologues of Alan Bennett crackle with wry observations, knowing irony and tender understanding. In superb performances, Patricia Routledge reaches beneath the surface to reveal unexpected secrets.

Pigling Bland's trip to market becomes an unexpected adventure when he meets Pig-wig, a lovely little pig who has been stolen, and offers to help her escape from the wicked farmer. The mischievous Tom Kitten falls into the grasp of a fat, greedy rat called Samuel Whiskers, who wants to enjoy Kitten Dumpling for his dinner. The enchanting story of a tailor working on a magnificent coat for the Mayor of Gloucester. When the tailor falls ill, the coat...

From her Victorian childhood in London to her final years farming in the Lake District, Beatrix Potter's life is vividly captured in this illustrated biography. Born in an age when young women from affluent homes were not expected to 'go into art' commercially, the exceptionally gifted author-artist experienced many rebuffs before her special talent was recognized. But within ten years of the publication of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, her books were...

In a shocking scandal, the like of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the eighteenth century, Lord Peter Wimsey's elder brother, the Duke of Denver, stands accused of murder. Lord Peter is determined to prove his brother's innocence, yet finds him strangely uncooperative. Furthermore, other family members apparently oppose Peter's attempts to get to the truth. His sister, Lady Mary, seems to know more than she is letting on -...