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• Byron | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £9.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The young poet Lord Byron had everything. He was beautiful aristocratic talented - and sexually irresistable. By his mid-twenties he was the most famous man in England - the world's first celebrity. Women flung themmselves at him. Men wanted to be like him. He lived for sensation and sexual excess indulging his darkest cravings and scandalising the nation until he could only be satiated by a passionate affair with his own half-sister. Too late he discovered that even a celebrity can go too far... Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting) stars as Byron in this erotic and compelling new BBC drama which co-stars Vanessa Redgrave (The Gathering Storm) Natasha Little (This Life) Julie Cox (The Scarelet Pimpernel) and Camilla Power as Lady Caroline Lamb.

• Control Room | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £5.50   |  Saving you £15.75 (371.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Startling and powerful, Control Room is a documentary about the Arab television network Al-Jazeera's coverage of the U.S.-led Iraqi war, and conflicts that arose in managed perceptions of truth between that news media outlet and the American military. Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim (Startup.com) catches the frantic action at Al-Jazeera headquarters as President Bush stipulates his 48-hour, get-out-of-town warning to Saddam Hussein and sons, soon followed by the network's shocking footage of Iraqi civilians terrorized and killed by invading U.S. troops. Al-Jazeera's determination to show images and report details outside the Pentagon's carefully controlled information flow draws the wrath of American officials, who accuse it of being an al-Qaida propagandist. (The killing of an Al-Jazeera reporter in what appears to be a deliberately targeted air strike is horrifying.) Most fascinating is the way Control Room allows well-meaning, Western-educated, pro-democratic Arabs an opportunity to express views on Iraq as they see it--in an international context, and in a way most Americans never hear about. --Tom Keogh