Stanley Townsend
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (280 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Agatha Christie becomes involved in solving the murder of a woman bludgeoned on a train; in the winter of 1928, Agatha Christie travels to Iraq, where she falls in love with an attractive archaeologist and has to unravel a series of murders; in the midst of personal turmoil, Agatha Christie decides to kill off her famous character, Hercule Poirot, and sell the manuscript to a wealthy businessman, but the businessman mysteriously dies and the manuscript...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's two weddings and somebody's funeral when a pair of just-married couples discovers that both parties have booked the same reception hall on the same day at the same time. In this delightful screwball comedy, the bride and the groom are falling in love. Which is great, except that they've just tied the knot with someone else.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"...François Girard's sweeping historical drama about a man searching for his childhood best friend -- a violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust -- who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance."--
Author
Description
This is a fascinating and massively entertaining account of the life of Phil Lynott; a man whose talent is hailed universally but whose early life of poverty is less well documented. The programme seeks to address, with marked success, some of the unanswered questions. We're treated to a rare insight and even rarer interview by his mother Philomena, who speaks fondly of her famous son, ranging from her trauma in the early years to the devastation...