Actors & Directors
- Ewan McGregor
- David Alexanian
- Charley Boorman
- Russ Malkin
Run time: 340 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.49
Review Long Way Down: Complete BBC Series / EMI Records (UK):
Release date: 2005-03-21
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.96
Review Scotland From The Air / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2008-11-03
Creator: Charley Boorman
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.20
Review Charley Boorman - By Any Means / Universal Pictures UK:
Release date: 2008-03-17
Run time: 350 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £17.99
Review Wainwright Walks: Complete BBC Series 1 & 2 Box Set / Acorn Media:
Release date: 2007-11-05
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.73
Review The Story of India : Complete BBC Series / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 450 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.99
Review Michael Palin's New Europe : Complete BBC Series / Michael Palin:
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 132 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.24
Review Robbie Coltrane's B-Road Britain - Complete Series / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 2104 min.
RRP: £69.99
Price: £40.00
Review The Michael Palin Collection / Michael Palin:
Release date: 2008-11-10
RRP: £49.99
Price: £34.29
Review The Francesco Collection Box Set: Amazon.co.uk Exclusive / 2 Entertain:
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Release date: 2008-01-07
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.98
Review Wainwright Walks : Complete BBC Series 2 [2007] / Acorn Media:
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Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 175 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £8.28
Review Wainwright Walks: Complete BBC Series 1 [2007] / Acorn Media:
Release date: 2007-09-03
Run time: 294 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £11.21
Review Mountain - Exploring Britain's High Places: Complete BBC Series / Warner Home Video:
Release date: 2008-06-09
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.86
Review Wild China / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.97
Review Ganges (BBC Series) / 2 Entertain Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Terry Jones
- Basil Pao
- Terry Gilliam
- Clem Vallance
- Roger Mills
- Alan Whicker
- Michael Palin
Run time: 340 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.00
Review Around The World In 80 Days [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:Great ideas seem inevitable once they have been successful, and here is one of the very best. In 1873 Jules Verne, wrote Around the World in 80 Days, in which Phineas Fogg attempted to circumnavigate the globe in no more than the titular timespan. In 1989, for this ten-part (eight-hour, 20 minute) BBC documentary, and using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller, Michael Palin attempted to turn the fiction into reality. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke which ensured the series became a television milestone, for despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns, he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the opportunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to travel from Pole to Pole (1992), before taking an epic journey round the Pacific rim for Full Circle (1997). -Gary S. Dalkin In 1989 Michael Palin recreated the famous voyage made in 1873 by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's epic Around the World in 80 Days. This 10-part (eight-hour) BBC documentary featured Palin and his passepartout using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke that ensured the series became a television milestone; despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns, he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. [+]His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the opportunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to the travel format in Pole to Pole (1992), Full Circle (1997) and Sahara (2002). -Gary S Dalkin.
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Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 480 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £9.34
Review Coast - Complete BBC TV Series 3 [2005] / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2006-06-19
Run time: 235 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.94
Review Francesco's Venice : Complete BBC Series / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2008-06-02
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.78
Review Long Way Down - Special Edition (3 Discs, 10 Episodes) / EMI:
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 480 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £6.89
Review Great British Journeys : Complete BBC Series 1 / Contender:
Release date: 2008-06-16
RRP: £24.99
Price: £14.97
Review Russia - A Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby : Complete BBC Series / Jonathan Dimbleby:A major BBC documentary, Russia sees Jonathan Dimbleby attempt to put across the largest nation on Earth over the course of a 10,000 mile journey. The end result fills up five 60 minute episodes, each of which you'll find in this DVD set. And on the whole, it's a very strong release. Billed as the first television look of its type at the nation, Dimbleby takes us via road, rail and foot as he undertakes his adventure, and his look at Russia certainly tucks away many of the stereotypes you may be used to seeing. At its best, Russia is a fascinating, brilliant piece of documentary television, genuinely unearthing new and interesting things, as well as a plethora of individual stories. Dimbleby is perhaps not the most obvious host, sometimes putting a little bit too much of himself into the mix rather than focusing on the nation he's there to show us, but on the whole he does a commendable job. Yet inevitably, it's the nation of Russia itself that's the main attraction here. And while you can't help but feel that this documentary only scratches the surface of the nation, it's still a welcome and thorough introduction to a once-mysterious country. More like this please, BBC. -Jon Foster.
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