"Actor: Roddy Maude Roxby"

• The Complete and Utter History of Britain | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £26.92   |  Saving you £-6.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Written by and starring Michael Palin and Terry Jones The Complete and Utter History of Britain was among a handful of series that formed a template for Monty Python's Flying Circus. This series offered a typically Pythonesque look at British history - as if television had been around to cover events as they unfolded. Thus we find Richard the Lionheart relating his exploits in the Crusades in the manner of a laddish holidaymaker and William the Conquerer engaging in post-match analysis (following an unspectacular scuffle in which King Harold is finally felled by a baguette). Studio sketches and filmed inserts are interspersed with the meandering insights of historian Professor Weaver (Roddy Maude-Roxby) with links by faintly bemused continuity presenter Colin Gordon. Sadly incomplete in the archives this set contains all remaining episodes along with the film inserts which Terry Jones has kept safe for nearly fifty years.

• Britain By Jove | DVD | (30/08/2010) from £12.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Britain By Jove collects together all 4 episodes of the famous comedy travelogue produced by British Pathe in the 1960s to promote holidays in Great Britain. The shows were presented by much loved ventriloquist Ray Alan and his celebrated companion Lord Charles and filmed in full colour. Lord Charles sets the tone with a rousing patriotic speech that We are living in a touring paradise before embarking on a whistlestop tour of the whole country - England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland - with his erstwhile chauffeur Cavendish played by Roddy Maude-Roxby. Lord Charles casts his beady eye over and passes his inimitable comments on places such as :- Cambridge Newmarket Norfolk Broads Burnham Thorpe Chatsworth House North Yorkshire Moors Robin Hood's Bay Newcastle Inverness Edinburgh the Highlands (Lochs Whiskey Distillery Birdwatching Angling and Golfing) Antrim and Londonderry in Northern Ireland The Giant's Causeway The English Lakes Tenby and Portmeirion in Wales Stratford-on-Avon Bath Land's End Torquay Boscastle Mousehole Plymouth Hoe Lulworth Cove London and The Thames (Hampton Court St.Paul's Cathedral Buckingham Palace Piccadilly Hyde Park and The Tower Of London) Oxford Henley Cliveden House Windsor and The Isle Of Man.