Richard Griffiths
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
p2006.
Language
English
Description
At a boys' grammar school in Sheffield, eight boys are being coached for the Oxbridge entrance exams. It is the mid-eighties, and the main concern of the unruly bunch of bright sixth-formers is getting out, starting university - and starting life. At the heart of The History Boys are four characters, each with contrasting outlooks on teaching and school: Hector, an eccentric English teacher with no interest in exams; Irwin, a young supply teacher...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
DI Henry Crabbe looks forward to retiring and opening his dream restaurant, but his accountant wife is not sure they can afford it and his police boss still wants his help in solving crimes.
The best of both worlds: After twenty-five years as a policeman, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe wants to retire and open his restaurant Pie In The Sky, with his accountant wife Margaret as cashier/bookkeeper.A week before exchanging contracts he is shot in...
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Henry Crabbe continues to balance life as a part-time policeman with his duties as a part-time chef. Having opened a restaurant with his bean-counter wife, he hopes his days as a detective are numbered. But the early retirement he craves never seems to come, thanks to the machinations of his self-serving boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher, who knows Crabbe is too good a cop to let go.
Money talks: Henry is leading a stake-out of a pizza parlour,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Centers around eight boisterous-yet-talented schoolboys hoping to gain admittance to England's most prestigious universities. They are aided on their quest by two teachers, a shrewd young upstart and an inspiring old eccentric, whose opposing philosophies challenge the boys to confront the true meaning of education and the relative values of happiness and success.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
DI Henry Crabbe looks forward to retiring and opening his dream restaurant, but his accountant wife is not sure they can afford it and his police boss still wants his help in solving crimes.
Hard cheese: A peeping tom peeps one time too many- on the wife of a senior police officer, no less- and ACC Fisher calls on Crabbe to make an arrest. Crabbe sniffs out a suspect, but the case starts to crumble after he learns that the man has more on his plate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his son's pleasure-loving nature will bring the realm to ruin. Meanwhile Falstaff and his ribald companions waste the nights in revelry, anticipating the moment when Hal will ascend the throne.
Author
Series
Publisher
Audio Partners
Pub. Date
p2003.
Language
English
Description
While King Henry's England is threatened by rebellion, the king's scapegrace son Hal haunts the taverns of London, his companions a crew of rogues and thieves led by the dissolute knight, Sir John Falstaff. The Earl of Northumber and his fiery son Hotspur scheme to overthrow the crown. Can Hal be brought to a sense of duty as Prince of Wales?
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1969, depicts the lives of Withnail and Marwood, two poor, unemployed actors. When Marwood is offered the lead role in a play it strains their friendship and they decide to spend a weekend at the cottage of Withnail's Uncle Monte to relax. Things go horribly wrong however, and the rift between them grows.
Publisher
Ambrose Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
This production is part of a famous series produced by BBC of all of William Shakespeare's plays. The resulting films, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilized the best theatrical and television directors and brought highly praised performances from leading contemporary actors. Queen Elizabeth herself is said to have requested the return of Falstaff to the Bard's stage…supposedly she wanted to see him in love. What Shakespeare gave Her Majesty...
11) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Koch Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Three orphans raised by the niece of an eccentric explorer in 1930s London aspire to careers on the stage and in the theater.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this delicious comedy which takes place in a little-known Yorkshire town during the thin times of 1947, plans are afoot to fatten a contraband pig destined for the centerpiece of a celebration banquet. However, chaos ensues when a social climbing middle-class couple steal the pig to impress their friends at their own banquet.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The escapades of these mischievous bunnies in Mr. McGregor's garden come to life. After feasting on the cuttings in Mr. McGregor's garden rubbish heap, the Flopsy Bunnies are overcome by the soporific effect of overgrown lettuces and stolen away by Mr. McGregor. Moppet, Mittens and Tom Kitten's attempt to keep clean and tidy for their mother's tea party, and Jemima Puddle-Duck encounters a foxy-whiskered gentleman.
Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harry Potter, an orphaned child that has spent the first ten years of his life living under the stairs of his aunt and uncle's house, is invited to join the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He learns his destiny lies in the realm of magic and fantasy.
Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Young wizard Harry and his friends Ron and Hermoine face new challenges during their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as they try to uncover a dark force that is terrorizing the school.
Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 5
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As Harry enters his fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, rumors of Lord Voldemort's return divide the wizarding world, and despite the insistence that there is no danger Harry and his friends start a group called Dumbledore's Army to prepare for a battle with Lord Voldemort and his followers.
Series
[Harry Potter films] volume 3
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
It's Harry's 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new "Defense against the Dark-Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.
20) Venus
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a nightmare for Ian, especially since she is a hard-drinking,...