British Broadcasting Corporation.
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the life of Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and the most famous cookbook author in British history. Isabella was an accomplished business woman who died when she was only 28. Traces Isabella's transformation from young wife, to magazine journalist, to publishing phenomenon. Find out how a woman who couldn't cook ended up producing the world's most famous recipe book. Discover the dark secret that led...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Description
"The full and official story of Doctor Who, from the show's first pre-production memos in 1963 to behind-the-scenes material from the latest season, including interviews with key cast and crew members as well as scores of prop photos, design sketches, and other collectible memorabilia. The Vault is a collector's dream--the ultimate celebration of all that is Doctor Who."--
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 157 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Following the Earth's close encounter with a comet, a meteor shower blinds the population. Bill Masen, recovering from a vicious plant attack, is one of the few people to survive with his eyesight intact. But the world he emerges into is a nightmare.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 810 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. : ill.)
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
To Celia's dismay, Caroline takes on a challenging new headship role at a troubled state school and buys a rundown farmhouse nearby. Is there more to this big upheaval than she is letting on and will her move prompt her mother and Alan to finally find a place of their own? Meanwhile Gillian's struggling to adjust to new husband Robbie being around all day since he retired from the police.
10) The last enemy
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (ca. 1140 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
The cherry orchard: Madame Ranevskaya returns to her decaying estate in pre-Revolutionary Russia after an exile in Paris. The estate and its beloved cherry orchard are threatened by Ranevskaya's financial problems, and no one seems able to do anything about it.
Keep an eye on Amélie: A coquette agrees to marry a confirmed bachelor so he can inherit a million francs.
Make and break: A successful manufacturer, driven by the compulsion to use and...
14) Brazil
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Be astounded by the fifth largest country in the world, from the lost world of Amazonia, to the buzzing cities of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo, a city of 30 million, where the super rich commute by helicopter. Meet remote tribes who pit their survival skills against gold diggers and loggers. In the entertaining company of good-natured host Michael Palin, delight in the spectacular landscape, food, music, beach life and unique cultural heritage of...
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Join a trek to a remote plateau in Argentina, where scientists believe an incredible dinosaur graveyard could be the most significant dinosaur find ever. A complete snapshot of life in the Middle Jurassic is hidden in the rock: after this mysterious period, the dinosaurs grew massively in size and came to dominate the globe.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca . 182 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the dark brooding orphan boy Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights, he is at first shunned by his new stepsiblings, Catherine and Hindley. Catherine eventually falls in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley's rivalry with Heathcliff only deepens, and when Hindley inherits the estate, he treats Heathcliff as little more than a servant. When Catherine later marries a neighboring landowner who can offer her social advancement,...
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The sweethearts of "As Time Goes By" look back at nine years of love and laughter. Flashbacks of meetings, partings, comedy and romance are all beautiflly woven into a poignant tapestry of memories. Join Jean and Lionel as they remember the best of "As Time Goes By."