Coky Giedroyc
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Johanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein) is a bright, quirky, 16-year-old who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde - a venerable, impossible-to-please music critic with an insatiable lust for fame, fortune, and men. It isn't long before the rapid pace at which Johanna's life is changing becomes overwhelming and she runs face-first into a devastatingly real, existential crisis: Is this the type of girl she wants to become? Or does she need to start over and...
3) What Remains
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two years after her disappearance, the badly decomposed body of Melissa Young - a single woman in her early thirties - is discovered in the loft of her former apartment. How is it that no one missed her, or even noticed that she was gone? What does that say about the life she lived or the society we occupy? And what of her killer? Are they still at large?
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
5) The hour
Language
English
Formats
Description
"London, 1956. At Lime Grove Studios, the BBC has just launched 'The Hour,' a topical news program. At the heart of the show are three contrasting journalists: enigmatic producer Bel Rowley, a spirited woman in a man's world; her best friend, Freddie Lyon, a brilliant and passionate reporter; and charming, well-connected front man Hector Madden. As Freddie moves to cover a significant but controversial story, the trio becomes entangled in an intense...
6) Oliver Twist
Language
English
Description
Born into a miserable workhouse orphanage, Oliver eventually flees to London, where the cheerful Artful Dodger immediately befriends him and introduces him to the villainous Fagin and his gang of thieves. Temporarily rescued from the prospect of a life of crime by the kindly Mr. Brownlow, Oliver finds himself pursued by savage thief Bill Sikes and the enigmatic Monks.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Anne-Marie Duff stars as the shrewd and captivating queen who defended her throne amidst an atmosphere of plotting and intrigue, torture and murder, The Virgin Queen is a riveting drama that explores the fascinating 44-year-reign of Elizabeth I.
Author
Language
English
Description
The beloved family classic comes alive once again! The world's most popular musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, comes brilliantly to life in this ambitious, live-broadcast production from BAFTA-nominated director Coky Giedroyc! The spectacular Kara Tointon (Mr. Selfridge, EastEnders) delivers a mesmerizing performance and incredible vocal talents as Maria, the tomboyish nun who reluctantly becomes the governess for seven children...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former nun Maria becomes the governess for a large family living in the shadow of their domineering and repressed widower father, Captain Georg von Trapp. Along with the required discipline, Maria brings love music and light into the children₂s lives and, eventually their fathers.₂ A classic love story that features some of the most beloved songs in musical history.
11) Carrie's war
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
At the start of World War II, 14-year-old Carrie and her younger brother Nick are separated from their mother and evacuated from war-torn London to a rural village in Wales, where they now live with a puritanical shopkeeper and his spinster sister.
12) The Nativity
Author
Language
English
Description
Mary is an ordinary, 16-year-old girl whose parents arrange to marry her to an older neighbor. When she falls pregnant, supposedly a virgin, she brings shame upon her family, and the threat of death upon herself. The man whom she is told to marry, Joseph, agrees to allow her to travel with him to Bethlehem.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a weekly magazine.
Author
Series
Spies of Warsaw volume 3
Language
English
Description
Mercier is in trouble. Betrayals and double-crossings on all sides have left him alone and in the hands of the Germans. Still, armed with the codename of the unhappy Nazi intelligence officer, as well as a way to get to him, he just might have one last card to play.
Author
Series
Spies of Warsaw volume 2
Language
English
Description
Mercier has escaped a deadly fate inside the German boarder, but now faces an uncertain future as the world moves ever-closer to war. He's being watched by vicious Germans agents, and his burgeoning relationship with Anna is not sitting well with those on his own side.
Author
Series
Spies of Warsaw volume 1
Language
English
Description
Poland, 1937. By day, decorated First World War veteran Jean-Francois Mercier serves as the French military attaché to Warsaw. With the cover of night he works as part of a vast and complex intelligence network, desperately trying to understand what the Hitler's Nazi regime intends for Europe.
Author
Series
Spies of Warsaw volume 4
Language
English
Description
Mercier has escaped the shadowy world of spies unscathed, but at what cost? Holed up in his family estate, it is only a matter of time before his past life catches up with him. When it does, he decides to get back in the fold and do what he can to help Poland and France before the inevitable war that creeps closer each day.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 2
Language
English
Description
Having found the body of the girl whose arm was found at the crash scene the team learn of an Albanian connection, while DCI Deacon continues to try and divide Sam and Leo. And there is no shortage of people who think they are responsible for the crash.
Author
Series
Silent Witness volume 8
Language
English
Description
As the police investigate the possibility of a copycat killer among the students, a friend from the college pressures Sam to put loyalty above the truth as the case unfolds.