Samantha Bond
1) Home fires
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
U.K. edition.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
2) King Lear
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format. As flies are to wanton boys, so are we to th' gods: they kill us for their sports, howls King Lear. In artist Ian Pollock's surreal interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the abstract wail of "the unaccomodated man" is dramatized in subtle shadings of the old king's anguish. Every line of dialogue is preserved, and every scene is illustrated...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called upon to investigate when one of the trustees of a small, family-owned museum devoted to the interwar years in England is found murdered shortly after expressing his intention to close the institution.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Death in the slow lane: A classic car show becomes a crime scene after a grisly death. Dark secrets: Barnaby and Jones investigate the suspicious death of a social services employee. Echoes of the dead: The detectives look into a series of copycat murders. the oblong murders: Jones goes undercover to investigate a local new-age...