|  Latest offers: Battle of Britain & D-Day 3-dvd sets
£14.95
Click here "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Churchill.
BATTLE OF BRITAIN 3-DVD SET
The summer of 1940 will forever be remembered, when the pilots of the RAF took on the thunderous assault of the Luftwaffe… and won. Three films reveal the desperately close run conflict, 70 years ago this year.
D-DAY 3-DVD SET
The largest invasion force in history was assembled for Operation Overlord in June 1944, landing some 130,000 men on the shores of Normandy. Three films chronicle the decisive events using rarely seen archive footage.
Both 3-dvd sets at just £14.95 saves over £10 off mrrps. |
| | The Six Wives of Henry VIII
£19.99
Click here Keith Michell's magnificent performance as Henry VIII in BBC's epic 1970 drama helped win an incredible 15 awards, including five BAFTAs.
Considered one of the finest examples of BBC historical drama, with latest research informing the screenplays, Tudor England is brought to life as each wife's story unfolds. Henry's search for elusive happiness and supreme power is revealed, as is his challenge to the authority of the Pope, and his discarding of wives and closest allies.
Starring Keith Michell, Annette Crosbie, Dorothy Tutin, Anne Stallybrass, Elvi Hale, Angela Pleasance, Rosalie Crutchley, Patrick Troughton, and narration by Anthony Quayle.
Nine hours on four dvds, plus background information and documentaries.
Price of just £19.99 saves £15.00 off mrrp of £34.99. |
| | Railway Roundabout & Decades of Steam dvd box sets
£49.99
Click here Two magnificent dvd box sets take you back to the golden age of steam:
DECADES OF STEAM 5-DVD BOX - five hour long films each celebrate a decade of steam locomotives from the 1920s to the 1960s using little seen archive footage on dvd for the first time.
BBC RAILWAY ROUNDABOUT 8-DVD BOX - three years after Modernisation and a year before the Beeching Report, BBC TV filmed British locomotives about to disappear forever on lines soon to be closed.
Both sets at just £49.99 saves almost £40 off mrrp of £89.98. |
| | Brel & Brassens 3-cd sets
£12.95
Click here Complete classic albums on these 3-cd sets of two iconic French singer songwriters:
Loved by artists as diverse as Scott Walker, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield and Nina Simone, JACQUES BREL 3-cd set has his first four solo albums: Jacques Brel et ses Chansons (1955), Quand on n'a que l'Amour (1957), Au Printemps (1958) and La Valse a Mille Temps (1959).
Considered one of France's most accomplished post-war poets and songwriters, on the GEORGES BRASSENS 3-cd set are six classic albums: La Mauvaise Reputation (1953), Le Vent (1954), Les Sabots d'Helene (1955), Je me Suis Fait tout Petit (1957), Oncle Archibald (1957) and Le Pornographe (1958).
Both 3-cd sets include a total of ten original albums. |
| | Alan Whicker's Journey of a Lifetime 2-dvd set
£12.99
Click here Broadcasting legend and undisputed travel king Alan Whicker looks back at a remarkable 50 years on our screens in this 2-dvd set.
Classic clips from Whicker's World inter-cut with new reportage reveal an incredibly varied career, as he re-traces his steps, catches up with past interviewees and reflects on how the world has changed - for good and bad - over the last six decades.
Written, presented and narrated by Alan Whicker.
Over four hours on two dvds.
Price of £12.99 saves £7 off mrrp of £19.99.
"This is brilliant social history, and a monument to a splendid career" The Guardian.
"A marvellous theme led medley of the veteran broadcaster's career… Whicker deserves to be called an icon" The Daily Express. |
| | Days that Shook the World 11-dvd box
£59.99
Click here The BBC's acclaimed dramatised reconstruction of 56 remarkable days that shaped world history.
This remarkable series of films piece together the seismic moments in world history - hour by hour as they unfold. As the clock ticks and events climax, we learn just what happened and its effect on the course of history.
Compelling accounts of key world events include the abdication of Edward VIII, assasinations of JFK and Martin Luther King, fall of the Berlin Wall, the Hindenburg, Hiroshima, the Moon landing, Pearl Harbour, the death of Princess Diana - and much more.
Over 30 hours on eleven dvds, price of £59.99 saves £40.00 off mrrp of £99.99.
"…the consistently illuminating history strand…" The Independent. |
| | Ella Fitzgerald Songbook 3-cd sets
£17.95
Click here Ella Fitzgerald's Songbooks are considered a cornerstone of 20th century recorded music, these new three-cd sets include the five complete Songbooks of: COLE PORTER, RODGERS & HART, DUKE ELLINGTON, IRVING BERLIN, GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN.
The albums, originally released by Norman Granz for Verve Records in the late 1950s, include over eleven hours and 180 songs produced at the peak of Ella's vocal powers, they represent some of the finest interpretations of modern music ever recorded.
3-cd sets just £6.99 each or £17.95 for all three, including UK p&p.
"My. What marvellous diction that girl has" Cole Porter.
"I'd never known how good our songs were until I heard Ella sing them" Ira Gershwin.
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| | Complete Foyle's War 22-dvd box
£99.99
Click here Michael Kitchen stars as no-nonsense Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle fighting his own battles on the home front whilst World War II rages across Europe.
Anthony Horowitz's fast paced action has cases of murder, spying and treason; every episode from all six series is now together for the first time in this new 22-dvd box.
Price of just £99.99 saves £50 off mrrp of £149.99. |
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