John Mitchinson
JOHN MITCHINSON is a former publisher and bookseller who now writes for the British television show QI (Quite Interesting). Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, ... [... more]
Random House |
Elizabeth R [4 Discs]
 Amazon.com Essential Video: Glenda Jackson is majestic in the six-video miniseries from the BBC, Elizabeth R. Covering the entire reign of Elizabeth I, from her struggles with her half-sister Mary just before being crowned as queen to her death in 1603, [... more]
CDN$84.99
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Roisin McAuley
Roisin McAuley is the author of Singing Bird. She joined the BBC in Northern Ireland as a newsreader and announcer, and then became a reporter for the BBC. She has also produced and directed documentaries for British television and programs for ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Tom Bradby
Tom Bradby, a foreign correspondent for the British television network ITN, is the author of Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an ... [... more]
Random House |
Satan's Circus
Mike Dash is a Cambridge-educated writer and magazine publisher who appears regularly on British television and radio. A professional historian before he became a writer, he has written articles for The Guardian, The Daily Mail, and The Fortean ... [... more]
Random House |
Stephen Fry
Actor, comedian, novelist, columnist, noted wit, and general bon vivant, Stephen Fry has become a fixture on British television with programs such as A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. In addition, he has made a number of films and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Barchester Chronicles
From Amazon.com: The first two episodes of this BBC miniseries only hint at the delights to come. A lawsuit aimed at church reform in the town of Barchester forces a decent middle-aged clergyman (the august Donald Pleasence, best known in the U.S. for [... more]
CDN$39.99
Amazon CA |
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
From Amazon.com: A British television series originally broadcast on CBS (and rebroadcast on PBS) in America in 1971, The Six Wives of Henry VIII remains a painless way to learn something about royal history and its impact on the political and religious [... more]
CDN$87.48
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Simon Schama's the Power of Art
Amazon.ca: Watching Simon Schama's Power of Art is like taking an Ivy League course in art appreciation, with the folksy but knowledgeable Schama as guide and interpreter. A collection of hour-long films on eight seminal artists and their groundbreaking [... more]
CDN$62.48
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Benny Hill - Complete and Unadulterated: The Hill's ...
From Amazon.com: The "Hill's Angels" of Benny Hill Complete and Unadulterated: The Hill's Angels Years, Set Four (1978-1981) are a cluster of fabulous babes who serve both as eye candy in comic master Benny Hill's musical sets and as a [... more]
CDN$64.99
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Upstairs Downstairs: First Season
Amazon.com Essential Video: Anglophiles rejoice: the Bellamys are back in their upscale London home, and the servants are again ensconced below stairs. The characters are endearing and the writing bittersweet as the story follows the lives of this [... more]
CDN$99.99
Amazon CA |
Red Dwarf: Series 1
From Amazon.com: Notoriously, and entirely appropriately, the original outline for Doug Naylor and Rob Grant's comedy sci-fi series Red Dwarf was sketched on the back of a beer mat. When it finally appeared on British television in 1988, the show had [... more]
CDN$45.99
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