Simon McBurney
1) Lessons
Author
Language
English
Description
With his life constantly in flux as he lives through many historic upheavals, Roland Baines, haunted by lost opportunities, searches for comfort through music, literature, friends, sex, politics and love, struggling against global events beyond his control that have shaped his existence and memories.
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War, eleven-year-old Roland Baines is stranded at a boarding school. His vulnerability...
2) Rev
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Anybody can and does come...
3) Rev: S2
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Rev. is a contemporary comedy series following the enormous daily frustrations and moral conflicts of the Rev. Adam Smallbone, a Church of England priest struggling to remain relevant in his inner-city parish where he's largely ignored except by the demanding few who attend his church. This series sees cassock-chaser Adoha's crush on Adam reach new heights when he inadvertently rescues her from a mugger. Adam's competitive streak is unleashed in an...
4) Rev: S1
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Meet The Rev. Adam Smallbone. He's a Church of England Vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of St Saviour's in Hackney, East London. It's a world he has no experience of. And it shows. It really shows. Alex - Adam's long-suffering wife - does her best to support him, but she's got her own career as a solicitor to worry about. And she is no one's idea of a conventional vicar's wife. Anybody can and does come...
5) Rev: S3
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The contemporary comedy about an inner city London vicar returns for a third series that asks big questions of the Reverend Adam Smallbone as he and his wife Alex adjust to life as new parents. How will Adam deal with parenthood on top of his small but demanding Church congregation? The new series brings a host of new characters to meet St Saviour's band of lost but loveable misfits as Adam is pushed to the limit by the dilemmas of modern priesthood:...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007,2006
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
9) Robin Hood
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history. England at the turn of the 12th century was such a time. King Richard the Lionheart, bankrupt of wealth and glory, is plundering his way back to England after ten years on his crusade. In his army is an archer named Robin Longstride. This is the story of his return home where, for defending the weak against the strong, he will be condemned to live...
10) The duchess
Publisher
Paramount Vantage
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story it is, in its way, a horror story, this portrait of a dazzling young woman at the mercy of the misfortunes of love and the inequalities of the age in which she lived. Married off as an innocent 17-year-old to a much older man, his only interest in the match is her ability to produce a male heir. Installed within the gilded cage of marriage, she discovers he expresses more affection for his dogs than for her. When the first child...
Series
Harry Potter volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the secret to Voldemort's immortality and destruction--the Horcruxes. On their own, without the guidance of their professors or the protection of Professor Dumbledore, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart. Harry's only hope is to find the Horcruxes...