Drawing TV audiences of up to 11 million viewers 'Trial And Retribution' is a gritty urban drama that deals with graphic topics from abduction to serial murders and internal police corruption to psychological illness. Breaking new ground in terms of content and style each episode traces the entire trajectory of a serious crime from the act being committed to a detailed investigation and arrest before arriving at the law courts for a dramatic finale. Trial And Retributio
No Greater Love
Set against the background of the Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War the story centres around Abel Mason and his desperate search for love and happiness in relationships with four women. After an affair ends in tragedy he leaves his vicious wife Lena and travels North with his ten year old son Dick. To secure a home for the boy and employment for himself he makes an illegal marriage with the widow of a wealthy garage owner. But later Abel falls hopelessly in love with her sister Florrie...
Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be
Clare Blake (Amanda Burton) has been promoted to the high rank of Serious Crime Group Commander and assumes control of her Murder Review Group. Commander Blake makes her top priority the police shooting of an unarmed civilian which was originally ruled a lawful shooting. Her team includes former D.I. George Hart (David Calder) and the sinister DCI Hedges (Matthew Marsh) who for his own reasons wants the case dropped for good. Simultaneously James Lampton (Hugh Bonneville) is rele
A revealing portrait of this most self-effacing but great portrait photographer emerges through conversation anecdote and candid reflection. In the almost six decades that Jane Bown (b 1925) worked for the Observer newspaper she became renowned for insightful highly individualistic portraits of the famous. Some of these portraits are now regarded as classics of the genre - Samuel Beckett Queen Elizabeth the Beatles Bertrand Russell Mick Jagger Margaret Thatcher etc. Bown's great mantra is 'photographers should neither be seen nor heard'. Diminutive in stature and with an all-important ability to blend into the background Bown was the antithesis of the Fleet Street macho photojournalist. This feature documentary is a beautiful portrait of both Jane Bown her determination to succeed in an almost exclusively male world and her process of working as a photographer. It includes interviews with Rankin Nobby Clark and Don McCullin and her many iconic photographs of the great and the good (and a few bad) of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Set against the background of the Depression in the 1930s and the Second World War the story centres around Abel Mason and his desperate search for love and happiness in relationships with four women. After an affair ends in tragedy he leaves his vicious wife Lena and travels North with his ten year old son Dick. To secure a home for the boy and employment for himself he makes an illegal marriage with the widow of a wealthy garage owner. But later Abel falls hopelessly in love with her sister Florrie...
A moving and beautiful documentary that records one of the most important religious events to take place in the UK: the tour of the relics of St Thrse of Lisieux, hailed as the greatest saint of modern times. Filmed by Michael Whyte (No Greater Love) in autumn 2009, Relics & Roses is a portrait of faith in the 21st century and includes exclusive interviews with the Archbishop of Westminster and the Dean of York.
Missed the best of British Cinema in 2010? The New British Cinema Quarterly annual 2010 brings you the most innovative and exciting British films of 2010 including the award winning Skeletons starring Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter series; Green Zone) about two travelling salesman who expose skeletons in people's closets. 1234 about the travails of being in an emerging pop band; No Greater Love in a behind the scenes documentary set in a Notting Hill convent and the unconventional Brilliant Love an up close and personal look at young erotic love. The annual presents all these films with excusive extras and a specially commissioned booklet with writing from top British film industry professionals. If you are interested in contemporary British cinema then the annual is an invaluable source to add to your collection.
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