"Emma Fielding, an actor of subtle and discerning power, played Viola over a period of eighteen months in the mid-nineties for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She pinpoints the inspiration behind the actor's craft and presents a wealth of illuminating detail on the art of the play."
"This DVD set include three popular mysteries - A Great Deliverance, the premiere film in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries series starring Nathaniel Parker (Far from the Madding Crowd) and Sharon Small (About a Boy), Second Sight 1 starring Clive Owen (Closer, Croupier), and Touching Evil 1 starring Robson Green (Reckless)."
"Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers, the most celebrated British detective duo in years, employ cunning, intuition, and street smarts to unravel some of the most heinous and suspenseful crimes. Despite their obvious differences- he is an upper-crust aristocrat, while she is decidedly working class- the sleuths evolve into a potent team, deciphering tantalizing mysteries. Based on the popular detective novels of Elizabeth ..."
"This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden d ..."
""A decapitation, a traumatized teen, and localized police corruption," a superior tells Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard. "A good result is important for all of us." The result is very good indeed, as Elizabeth George's gripping bestseller is given the grand PBS treatment. Originally broadcast on Mystery!, this production marked the long-running series' first adaptation of a whodunit written by an American. Nathaniel Parker stars as ..."
"More boisterous shenanigans from Silas, whose unquenchable high spirits delight Edward, his impressionable young nephew. Albert Finney brings to his avuncular character the same dash and energy that charmed audiences decades ago in Tom Jones. Based on Bates's cozy tales set in early-20th-century rural England. 2-1/2 hours on 2 DVDs."
"This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden d ..."
""A decapitation, a traumatized teen, and localized police corruption," a superior tells Thomas Lynley of Scotland Yard. "A good result is important for all of us." The result is very good indeed, as Elizabeth George's gripping bestseller is given the grand PBS treatment. Originally broadcast on Mystery!, this production marked the long-running series' first adaptation of a whodunit written by an American. Nathaniel Parker stars as ..."
"Set in 18th century England, A Respectable Trade is a poignant adaptation of Philippa Gregory's controversial novel of love, greed and ambition. Frances Scott (Emma Fielding), a well-bred governess, is left penniless after the death of her father. Unmarried and no longer in the first bloom of youth, she accepts a marriage proposal from the awkward, uneducated Josiah Cole (Warren Clarke). Josiah is a ship owner in the bustling port of Br ..."
"This free adaptation of Gladys Mitchell's classic crime novel Speedy Death as a vehicle for a full-blooded performance by Diana Rigg as the louche 1920s analyst Mrs. Bradley is a splendid piece of period drama with an intriguing puzzle at its heart. Mrs. Bradley attends the engagement party of her crippled goddaughter Eleanor, only to find the home of her old beau, Eleanor's father Bing (John Alderson), a hotbed of intrigue and sudden d ..."
"The Scarlet Tunic, an adaptation of a Thomas Hardy short story, is set in the rolling hills of the 19th-century English countryside. While this is a beautiful-looking movie, what it offers in scenery and costuming it lacks in cinematic power. Perhaps this simple story of forbidden love would have been better off left as a short story. Frances Groves, daughter of a solicitor, is betrothed to her father's awkward, older, and unattracti ..."
"This widely-studied play is one of the bestsellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press."
"Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public "morality" compared with genuine, private kindness. When it opened in 1892, "Lady Windermere's Fan" was an instant success and now, a century later, it continues to be revived frequently. The reasons for its popularity are not difficult to identify the play's witty dialogue contains many of Wilde's most quoted aphorisms, its stylish setting provides opportunities for elegant pre ..."
"Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter, marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middleclass tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois. Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an acade ..."
"Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia' ..."
"Stephen Fry narrates this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the famous Victorian comic novel. Orphan Becky Sharp and wealthy Amelia Sedley are best friends at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies. On leaving school, ambitious, social-climbing Becky looks for a rich man to support her, while the sweet-natured Amelia meets her old friend Dobbin, who is instantly captivated. Becky takes a job in the service of Sir Pitt Crawley, a ..."
"All three BBC radio dramatisations of the bestselling fantasy trilogy plus bonus materialA breathtaking epic spanning multiple worlds, His Dark Materials follows the adventures of Lyra Belacqua and Will Parry, two children catapulted into a life-or-death struggle to save the future of the Cosmos.In Northern Lights, 11-year-old Lyra discovers dark forces at work involving kidnapped children and a mysterious substance called Dust. With he ..."