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- Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated and renowned English language novelists of all time, her novels which have been adapted into countless successful movies, plays, and other books, with the Jane Austen brand spawning a range of merchandise and well attended events by her legion of fans. Among those who counts himself as definitely not a fan is journalist and restaurant critic Giles Coren - an English Literature graduate himself - who sees the works of Austen as fluff for primarily a young female audience, the novels indistinguishable from one another. In rereading the six novels in the order they were written and published, Giles, in addition to attending some Austen related events and visiting Austen related sites, speaks to fans, ranging from academics to fellow authors to filmmakers to regular Janes and Joes (and in the process runs into a few Austen haters like himself), who try to convince him of the greatness of Austen and why the renown is so well deserved.
- Alison is 12 years old and lives on an estate on the edge of a city. She befriends Jake, a 15 year old gypsy girl and makes a "vardo" - a gypsy wagon.
- The inside story of the best modern romcoms with Meg Ryan, Hugh Grant, Richard Curtis, Dermot Mulrooney, Rupert Everett, Jason Alexander, Stephen Merchant, Tim Bevan, Bobby Farrelly and and Simon Callow. Narrated by Julie Walters.
- Bert Newton counts down Hollywood's hottest hunks from 20 to 1.
- The club tests its own characters and people for their strength and beliefe every while...
- 2004– 48mTV-PG7.2 (15)TV EpisodeAmateur and professional New York filmmakers provide never-before-seenimages of the events of September 11th through the raw and personalfootage they captured that day.
- With a drug-addled lifestyle and a prison sentence firmly behind him, Abel is determined to go straight and stay clean... as soon as he's seen to one final heist. In the house that he burgles he comes across Elizabeth - rich, desperate, hopelessly addicted to a heroin and unconscious. Saving her from the clutched of an overdose, Abel stays out of compassion which eventually evolves into attraction. But when Abel takes on Elizabeth he also takes on her family. His resolution to go straight has to go on the back burner while he struggles against a drugs conspiracy that stretched from the slums of the East End to the Houses of Parliament.
- A Christmas story set in contemporary London, about a woman, Debbie, who feels threatened by her husband, Koji, the Japanese gangster owner of a London nightclub. When Debbie tries to leave the country with her young son, Ricky, a mysterious figure named Nick (who may or may not be Father Christmas, or Santa Claus) is accidentally shot. Things get tough for Debbie and Ricky, but Nick offers resolution with a mix of practical assistance - and perhaps just the slightest touch of Christmas magic.
- A day in the life of an unlucky man.
- On National Achievement Day, the lives of a detective, a shopkeeper, a garage attendant, a barmaid, a dog and two mice interconnect. Their conversation provokes self-reflection, stirring up memories that evoke longings and regrets.
- Two lovers on the run in the wilds of London's outer edges. A story of love, destruction and the act of letting go.
- Hit Girls is an action/thriller with a sense of humour. Imagine if Rachel and Monica (from Friends) could handle themselves like Jason Bourne.
- Set in the not to distant apocalyptic future. Earth is under invasion from computer/arcade aliens, tensions run high and teenagers still want to 'go out'.
- Life in the small Irish town of Castle Bay in the 1950s.
- A sensitive drama about a farm labourer's abused daughter who fantasises about the officers of the local U.S. Air Base to escape the guilt and hypocrisy of everyday life. But her dreams of glamour and excitement are shattered when she is seduced by a pilot, setting in motion a chain of events...
- Brian's secret admirer turns out to be Betty, Mona's mother and former spouse of 'Andy', who has been spying on Barbary Lane for some months, following the disappearance of Norman, actually a private eye Betty engaged. She threatens to expose Mary Ann for her part in Norman's disappearance but Mrs. Madrigal gets her to back off by countering that she will expose Betty for her sessions with Brian. Dede gives birth to her twins, cheered by D'Or's loyalty and love for her and soon after they head for Guyana and Jonestown. Mouse, almost fully recovered thanks to resident doctor Jon, works out from a magazine article that Burke's fear of roses is connected to Grace Cathedral and its rose window. Mary Ann and Burke investigate, discovering a severed foot and a sect of cannibals using the cathedral as their base. The story provides Burke with his scoop and he leaves for New York. Mary Ann declines his offer to accompany him. Soon she will also have a media career of her own, albeit in day time television, and although Brian is back with Mona, he will shortly become Mary Ann's partner.
- Mouse is jealous of Mary Ann's involvement with Burke until his old flame Dr. Jon Fielding reappears. Mona takes Mother Mucca back to Barbary Lane for an emotional reunion with her long lost 'son'. Beauchamp, angry that Dede has had sex with another man -despite his own bi-sexual exploits in saunas- seeks out a young punk girl known as Douchebag and pays her to punch Dede and cause a miscarriage. Frannie is much cheered when her friend Helena Parrish takes her to the Prius Club where elderly matrons are danced attendance on by gorgeous, nearly nude, young men.
- Dede does not mourn Beauchamp's passing and Mary Ann learns that Beauchamp never officially acknowledged her resignation so, with time on her hands, she decides to help Burke regain his memory. He believes that he may have been investigating a cult. Mouse begins to get feeling back in his legs and Jon agrees that he will move into Barbary Lane with him when he is discharged from hospital to act as his therapist. Mrs. Madrigal encourages Mona and Brian to be more than friends but Mona is put off when she sees him going through his nightly performance for his distant admirer. Then she gets an urgent call from Betty, her mother.
- Mary Ann and Mouse return from the cruise, Mary Ann being puzzled by the fact that the sight of roses makes Burke feel sick. After Mrs. Madrigal has explained to her lodgers about her previous life and the fact that Mona is her daughter, Mouse is struck down with paralysis which leaves him unable to walk. In bed with his friends around him he writes to his parents, who are anti-homosexuality, outing himself and declaring that, whatever their reaction, he has a new 'family' in Barbary Lane. Mary Ann quits her job after a row with Beachamp whilst Douchebag waits in a telephone kiosk for Beauchamp to ring and instruct her to assault Dede. However the call never comes because Beauchamp has been killed in a road crash in an underground tunnel.
- A booze heist in an old people's home.
- Mona is amazed to discover a recipe book at the brothel with the name Mona Ransay written inside it. She telephones Mrs. Madrigal and discovers that she is Mrs. Madrigal's daughter and that Mrs. Madrigal, prior to her sex realignment operation, was Andy, the son of Mother Mucca, who is also called Mona Ramsay. Mary Ann gets close to Burke and is intrigued by the fact that he is an amnesiac. Brian and his high rise admirer continue their long distance sexual encounters, watched by a group of elderly gays who are much taken with Brian's performance. Dede leaves Beauchamp to return home to her mother Franny, who is worried about getting old and considers a face-lift.
- Using money left her by Edgar Halcyon Mary Ann pays for herself and Mouse to go on a cruise where she meets and falls for Burke Andrew, a young man with a mysterious past. Mona, dissatisfied with city life, takes a bus ride and ends up near Reno, Nevada, where she is befriended by a potty-mouthed, eccentric old lady known as Mother Mucca. She is a brothel keeper and, calling herself Judy, Mona becomes her receptionist. Dede tells D'Or that her unborn babies' father is not Beauchamp but a Chinese delivery boy with whom she had rough, one-off sex. Brian, taking over Norman's roof-top apartment, becomes aware that a middle-aged woman with binoculars is spying on him when he is in the nude and pleasures himself for their mutual amusement.
- A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after his day job, he has to attend to his real job as Coco the Clown. He falls in love with the leader of the opposition party but she falls in love with Coco the Clown without knowing that he is in fact John Major, the Prime Minister.
- Gimme Shelter shows the work that UNHCR is doing to fulfill its mandate of protecting and supporting refugees around the globe by illustrative examples of critical UNHCR emergencies around the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact on neighboring countries, Uganda and Rwanda.
- Worlds collide when a young man from London meets a young woman from Swansea on a London bus.
- Ort Flack is 12 years old and lives with his mother and his sister Tegwyn in the Australian outback. The three of them also have to take care of their old grandma and their paralyzed father. It is not easy for one mother to take care of everybody. But one day a mysterious stranger, Henry, comes to their desolate house to help them...
- Jon, who has met DeDe as her gynecologist and likes her, breaks things off with Beauchamp, informing him of his wife's pregnancy. As Christmas approaches Mary Ann confides in Mouse her suspicions of Norman's creepy behavior and snoops around his flat, finding pornographic pictures of Lexi. Mona tracks down Dorothea's parents and invites them for lunch on Christmas Eve. She is amazed to find that they are white and the tablets she found in Dorothea's cabinet were to darken her skin, as it gave her more modeling work. After initial shock there is reconciliation. Norman has found out the secret that Anna told Edgar and intends blackmail. Anna was once a man, Andy Ramsay, who had a sex change operation twenty years earlier. However, after Mary Ann has confronted him over the pictures of Lexi, they argue and he falls off a cliff to his death. Mary Ann returns to Barbary Lane and, having burnt Norman's file on Anna without reading it, joins Mouse, Mona, Brian and Connie to celebrate Christmas with their landlady. Some days later Edgar slips away, having learnt of DeDe's news and asking her to call her baby Anna if it is a girl. The funeral over, Anna visits Edgar's grave, placing a joint on it and bidding him to have fun.
- Brian continues to have more disastrous pick-ups, including with two waitresses who turn out to be a mother and daughter. Mona finds it difficult to get through to Dorothea, particularly with regard to Dor's reluctance to see her parents, whom Mona rings in the spirit of reconciliation. DeDe continues her joyless affair with Callas, though at least she gets sex with him, which is more than she does with Beauchamp who,unaware of her situation,announces that he does not want children - before heading to a gay sauna where he picks up Jon. Mary Ann goes on seeing Norman, for whom she feels sorry. She is not to know that he has been employed by a Mrs. Ramsay, a woman with the same surname as Mona, to dish all the dirt on Anna's background. And Anna does indeed have a surprising secret, which she discloses to Edgar.
- After her first night as a volunteer on a Samaritan-type switchboard Mary Ann comes back to be confronted by DeDe, holding the scarf she left in Beauchamp's car, though she successfully convinces DeDe that she has no interest in her husband. Nonetheless DeDe signs up for a fat farm to lose weight. Anna and Edgar begin their affair proper after he has hinted to Beauchamp that he will one day be boss. Mouse feels humiliated after attending Jon's dinner party where bitchy old queens score points off him though Jon tells Mouse he means more to him than all of them. Mary Ann meets Norman, the straight and rather creepy new tenant of the garden flat whilst Mona gets a call from her old friend D'orothea, a beautiful black model.
- Michael's parents visit and he shows them around the city, keeping a discreet silence about his sexuality. Anna and Edgar also try to keep their affair secret as he stays the night but Mona is more open, telling Mouse that she and Dorothea were once lovers. Dorothea returns to San Francisco and Mona moves in with her, Anna being unusually upset about her leaving. Mary Ann gets closer to Brian, who consoles her after she found her boss at the Crisis Cedntre had hanged himself. However she starts dating Norman, who sometimes brings a precocious little girl Lexi and asks Mary Ann lots of questions about their fellow tenants. DeDe learns that she is pregnant and, as news of the putative father spreads, she is sexually blackmailed by odious Carson Callas to not tell Beauchamp.
- Whilst Anna and Edgar continue their platonic friendship Mary Ann allows herself to spend a week-end with Beauchamp at a hotel, where the promised Z-bed does not materialize and they end up in the sack, though he has virility problems. Next day he ignores her at work. Brian meanwhile has various unsatisfactory sexual encounters, including with Connie, whilst DeDe, playing Beauchamp at his own game, seduces Chinese grocery delivery boy Lionel Wong and Mouse meets Jon, a doctor, and spends the night with him. Mona quits her job as a protest against sexist ad campaigns but joins with Mouse to dissuade Mary Ann from returning home,though a phone lecture from her mother is also instrumental in persuading Mary Ann to stay at Barbary Lane.
- In 1976 innocent young Mary Ann Singleton comes to San Francisco and, after briefly crashing with worldlier school friend Connie Bradshaw, takes a flat at 28, Barbary Lane in a house owned by the bohemian,pot-growing Mrs. Anna Madrigal, a lady who hints at a mysterious past. Mary Ann becomes one of Anna's 'children', along with personable Brian, who has given up law for bar work, Michael, known as Mouse, a flamboyant gay, and spaced out hippie chick Mona, who gets Mary Ann a job as secretary to kindly advertising executive Edgar Halcyon. Edgar is a man with problems. His handsome but feckless young son-in-law Beauchamp, who works with him, is constantly unfaithful to DeDe, Edgar's daughter whilst Edgar himself is terminally ill, a fact he keeps from his alcoholic wife Frannie whilst visiting a faith healer. A depressed Edgar is much cheered by a chance encounter in the park with Anna Madrigal, learning to his surprise that Anna's mother once ran the brothel where he lost his virginity.
- The Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George (Paul Cross), but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers.
- Bill Goodman is a slick, wealthy, celebrated psychiatrist leading a double life. He has a wife and daughter in New York, and another wife in London. Despite his long absences on 'business trips', both little families live in domestic bliss, totally oblivious of each other's existence. Alas, the wives find out about each other's places in Bill's well-organized life and let jealousy get the better of happiness. They even team up and turn on the man who so cunningly made everyone happy for so long.
- A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
- Listen to the words from the people who saw with their eyes on what happened on 9/11
- A group of young British guardsmen have to cover up a hit and run incident that occurred at the end of a night of drunken revelry.
- A fantastic Gothic fairy-tale about two brothers with a death-wish and a fairy companion who tries to show them that life is worth living. Starring Keira Knightley and Rupert Friend.
- A day in the life of an eight-year-old soccer fan who has to come to terms with living in a strange new town and the loss of his father.
- Surrey plots treason after being relieved of command, and as Bishop Gardiner's inquisition proceeds, it comes closer and closer to the Queen.
- Henry allows Bishop Gardner a free rein in rooting out heretics and sets his eyes on the soon-to-be-widowed Catherine Parr.
- Catherine's buys the silence of an indiscreet former lover with a position in her chamber as her affair with Culpepper becomes more tempestuous.
- After leaving wife Catherine as regent, a bellicose Henry invades France and lays siege to Boulogne in an attempt to regain his French provinces.
- Although Henry does take Boulogne, his troops are decimated by dysentery while back in England the Queen arranges to give Edward a tutor with Lutheran beliefs.
- While Henry prepares for a politically important trip to meet the defeated Northern rebels, Queen Catherine carries on her passionate affair with Culpepper.
- Joan Bulmer confides the Queen's sexual history to Lady Rochford who tells it to Culpepper and arranges for him to have a liaison with the neglected Catherine.
- Henry settles on Anne Of Cleves as his fourth wife but is disappointed with her attractiveness and blames Cromwell for his unhappy situation.