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• Law & Order SVU Season 7 | DVD | (16/02/2009) from £45.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Law And Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 7 (5 Disc)

• In Search of Shakespeare | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £8.97   |  Saving you £11.02 (122.85%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The BBC series In Search of Shakespeare could be the English teacher's most important ally yet. With his typical mixture of intensive research, detective work, boyish enthusiasm and popular appeal, television historian Michael Wood comes closer than anyone to bringing the Bard to life. There are some astonishing discoveries along the way, which help to give a documentary cohesion to Shakespeare's story. But Wood is never arrogant enough to claim to have pinned the playwright's character down. The ifs, buts and maybes are all part of the fascination. The man himself remains tantalisingly just out of reach, which is probably as it should be. Instead, Wood takes us on an exhilarating journey through Elizabethan and Jacobean England, building a picture of his subject through painstaking reference to the climate of the age: a police state in which Shakespeare's family was devastated by the persecution of Catholics. Social, familial and political influences are all unravelled and pieced together, counterpointed with scenes from the plays--RSC actors conveniently to hand--and the life and times of the travelling actor and playwright are evoked in front of our eyes, becoming tangible and relevant. Wood gives us the chance to consider the plays in context, products of a great mind living in interesting times, rather than in academic isolation. It's a compelling tale, full of bloody danger, sex, celebrity and social history, and densely packed with layers of detail. Wood's great gift is to tell it in such an accessible way and without the sense of superiority that some of his peers bring to popular history. --Piers Ford

• In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £7.34   |  Saving you £12.41 (222.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Michael Wood brings his own unique approach to the story of Alexander the Great which has excited and puzzled the imagination of East and West for the past 2000 years. Alexander's extraordinary journey is now seen as a key moment in history which laid the foundations for the later dominance of Western culture but which also ironically paved the way for the spread of Islam. In this innovative and compelling account combining travel adventure with history and current affairs Michael Wood embarks on a 2000 mile journey in the footsteps of Alexander's army through many of the 20th century's major troublespots including Gaza and Afghanistan. He travels with Lebanese traders Iranian pilgrims and Afghan guerrillas by jeep train boat camel and on foot. In an account based on the texts of Greek and Roman historians the momentous events of the past are interwoven with present day reality.

• Slasher - The Complete First Season | DVD | (11/07/2016) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Blending classic horror, contemporary murder mystery and timeless crime fiction, psychological thriller Slasher tells the gripping story of a young woman who finds herself the centrepiece in a series of horrifying copycat murders based on the grisly killings of her parents. When Sarah Bennet (Katie McGrath, Jurassic World, Dracula) returns to the small town where she was born, she is determined to start a new life. But it's not long before history starts to repeat itself, and she is plunged into the midst of a new, even bloodier, murder mystery. As the killings escalate and long-buried secrets are revealed, everyone around her is either a suspect...or a victim. And when she uncovers some soul-shattering revelations about her own life, Sarah discovers that the truth may be more dangerous than any serial killer could ever be. Episodes: An Eye for an Eye Digging Your Grave with Your Teeth Like as Fire Eateth Up and Burneth Wood As Water Is Corrupted Unless it Moves Ill-Gotten Gains The One Who Sows His Own Flesh In the Pride of His Face Soon Your Own Eyes Will See