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Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c2002
Language
English
Description
A mother and her three Edwardian children move to a country house in Yorkshire after the mysterious disappearance of their father. The children become fascinated by a nearby train and their kindness helps them befriend an older gentleman who may be able to solve the mystery of their missing father.
3) Rebecca
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A timid young girl marries a troubled widower only to find her new home is haunted by the memory of Rebecca, the first wife.
Series
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When the privileged Margaret Hale's father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, she is shocked by the dirt and gruffness of the people. But she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner, John Thornton.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis and his partner, the enigmatic detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the idyllic Oxford countryside and colleges in five new thrillers, forcing the pair to revisit the past and to reconsider the future.
Series
Publisher
PBS [distributor]
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Old Unhappy Far Off Things: Lewis and Hathaway investigate two murders at Oxford's last surviving all-female college. Wild Justice: Candidates in an election at Oxford's St. Gerard's Hall are being murdered one-by-one. The Mind Has Mountains: When a student dies from a new anti-depressant drug, is it murder or suicide? The Gift of Promise: Businesswoman Andrea de Ritter is bludgeoned to death in an apparent blackmail plot gone wrong.
Series
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Based on Gerald Durrell's trilogy of Corfu novels, this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa Durrell and her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house, alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry.
Series
Masterpiece theatre volume 4
Publisher
Pbs
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
James Norton stars as the handsome, jazz-loving vicar Sidney Chambers, with Robson Green as his law-enforcement ally, Inspector Geordie Keating, in Grantchester, a mystery series based on the acclaimed novels by James Runcie. Although Sidney lives the life of a clergyman, sometimes he can't help but fall into more worldly habits as he solves murders in the bucolic village of Grantchester.