DescriptionThe third series of the BAFTA Award-winning comedy, starring Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, finds a bizarre accident bringing together yet more of the extraordinary inhabitants of Royston Vasey. Pauline is released from HMP Clitcli…
DescriptionWelcome to Royston Vasy! Your visit coincides with: Herr Lipp's German exchange visit, Papa Lazarou's freak show, and a nosebleed epidemic! If shopping's on your agenda, Reenie and Vinnie are in charge of the charity shop, Tubbs and Edwards are looking to finda 'no-tail' mate for son David, and friendly butcher Hilary Briss is holding a soiree for patrons of his 'special stuff'. Perhaps it's a job you're looking for? Cathy Carter-Smith has just found Pauline and Mickey new roles at the Burger Me fast food restaurant. And there are plenty of other lovely locals to meet while you're here, like Val, Harvey and the girls, Les McQueen and his rock 'n' roll past, Larry Vaughn the foul-mouthed mayor, Barbara the taxi driver, and many more. So welcome to town. You'll never leave!
DescriptionWelcome to Spent, an isolated and rather odd town somewhere in the North. Its singular inhabitants lead blackly comic lives, from Dr Chinnery, the lethally incompetent vet and Pauline, the monstrous Restart Officer at the Job Centre, to the hideously exacting Dentons who impose their disturbing habits and pet toads upon their visiting nephew Ben. These and other memorable townsfolk are ferried around by Barbara, a taxi driver half way through his sex change, and served by Mr Iingleby, who brings a whole new meaning to the term 'small shopkeeper'. Murderously funny and actuely observed, The League of Gentlemen 's highly acclaimed brand of comedy shows human nature at its most extreme, and most hilarious.
DescriptionIn every mystical wisdom tradition, nonordinary states of consciousness have served as essential tools for discovering why we are here and how we can live richer, more meaningful lives. For over 40 years, Stanislav Grof has tested and brought these method…
DescriptionFrom its spectacular opening, the astonishing scene in which drunken Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a passing sailor at a country fair, to the breathtaking series of discoveries at its conclusion, The Mayor of Casterbridge claims a unique place among Thomas Hardy's finest and most powerful novels. Rooted in an actual case of wife-selling in early nineteenth-century England, the story builds into an awesome Sophoclean drama of guilt and revenge, in which the strong, willful Henchard rises to a position of wealth and power, only to achieve a most bitter downfall. Proud, obsessed, ultimately committed to his own destruction, Henchard is, as Albert Guerard has said, "Hardy's Lord Jim...his only tragic hero and one of the greatest tragic heroes in all fiction."…
DescriptionIn this remarkable recording, C.S. Lewis shows why millions of readers have acclaimed him the greatest spokesman for Christianity in the twentieth century. In a resonant, baritone voice, Lewis explores the nature of the four Greek words that are translate…
