"Actor: Kate Adie"

• Little Children | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £7.81   |  Saving you £12.18 (155.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A stay-at-home mom has an affair with an ex-jock in this suburban drama.

• 50 Years Of BBC News | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £8.96   |  Saving you £1.03 (10.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  To commemorate the 50th anniversary of BBC News on television this is a fascinating series of programmes that look back on the past five decades. Each programme is a 30-minute segment covering a decade beginning with the 1950s. Providing insight into how BBC News is reported each segment is narrated by one of the following key news figures: Charles Wheeler Michael Buerk Kate Adie John Simpson and Jeremy Bowen. Also includes three extra programmes from 1953 1963 and 2004 about h

• Women At War - Workers Unite | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-4.57 (-45.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Since the horrors of tribal assault and massacre women have carved out an important wartime role often having to fight their own male establishment as well as the enemy to do so. More recently they have led protests against war. How successful have women been in destroying the 'no job for a woman' labels and how successful have they been in holding on to these roles when the guns fall silent?

• Women At War - Aspects Of War | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-29.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Kate Adie looks at how women have been used as propaganda tools in war and examines their broader contribution to the cultural images of armed conflict through painting poetry photography and writing. What images do women add to their chronicles of war? What do they go through to bring us their words and pictures.

• Women At War - On The Battlefield | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £17.79   |  Saving you £-7.80 (-78.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This tells the story of those women who have experienced battle at first hand. Occasionally forced to masquerade as men they fought in the conflicts which have shaped our world from the American and English Civil wars the Napoleonic battles and the two World Wars to Korea Vietnam and the Middle East. Whether a celebrated historical figure such as Boudicca or one of the many unsung fighters on the front line each of their sacrifices made them worthy heroines.

• Women At War - Spies And Angels | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £14.56   |  Saving you £-4.57 (-45.70%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The ultimate tragic spy Mati Hari was the archetypal 'femme fatale' and the nun-like Florence Nightingale the selfless field nurse. In Spies and Angels we look at both of these iconic women in addition to such formidable pioneers as medic Mabel Stobart and nurse Edith Cavell famously executed during the Second World War for espionage. As technology began to change the world around us so women's roles adapted in both medicine and counter-intelligence.