British Broadcasting Corporation.
41) Connections: 1-2
Series
Connections volume 1-2
Pub. Date
[2001?]
Description
A series presenting science as a detective story illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Part 1: Beginning in Egypt the program explains how plowing, building, writing, taxation, and astronomy began and how they became interdependent. Man's present dependence on complex technological networks is illustrated with a reconstruction of the New York City power blackout of 1965. The program ends in Kuwait, a...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Explores the world of invertebrates, detailing aspects of the life-cycles of numerous species around the world. Topics covered include their prehistoric colonisation of land from the sea, winged insects, the various uses of silk, relationships with plants and other animals and social structures.
44) The triangle
Description
A group of specialists investigate a number of disappearances of cargo ships that have come up missing. As the mystery deepens, every clue they uncover leads to truths that are more bizarre than the myths used to protect them!
Series
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
Childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their 70s, fall for each other all over again when they are reunited on the internet after nearly 60 years. Their relationship is a celebratory tale of the power of love at any age. But this is also a story about family, and with family comes baggage. Celia's respectable, head teacher daughter Caroline is juggling bringing up two boys and dealing with her husband's infidelity.
46) Red Dwarf: I
Pub. Date
[2003], c1988
Description
Follows the exploits of Lister, a deep-space miner who emerges from stasis 3 million years in the future to find that his only companions are Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Cat, a humanoid who evolved from his pet cat, and Holly, the ship's computer.
47) The last enemy
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
50) War & peace
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Leo Tolstoy's timeless masterpiece of love and loss is universally recognized as one of the greatest novels ever written. Focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleanic Wars, this classic work is retold in twenty parts in this epic BBC production.
52) Julius Caesar
Author
Formats
Description
"A triumphant Caesar enters Rome after defeating the sons of his old enemy, Pompey. Jealousy and fear over Caesar's reforms reveal a brewing conspiracy to assassinate him. As the plot thickens, Caesar's wife is plagued by terrible nightmares and begs him not to go to the Capitol. But Caesar shrugs off her fears and is accompanied to the Senate by the conspirators thus sealing his fate. Caesar's loyal friends rally to avenge his death and preserve...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Having begged Granny and Grandpa for a scooter, Lola suddenly decides that she now wants a pair of real, actual ice skates. Everyone is dubious. Charlie reminds her she felt the same about her old yo-yo and Dad warns her that he doesn't want to find the ice skates in the bottom of her cupboard. But Lola is adamant, she needs actual ice skates because they are sparkly and white, and when she gets them, she will be the best ice skater in the whole school....
59) I, Claudius
Description
A dramatization of Robert Graves' version of the times of the Roman Empire from Augustus to Claudius told through the dying Claudius as he sets down the history of his family.