"Actor: Alice Roberts"

• Britain's Most Historic Towns with Alice Roberts (Channel 4) | DVD | (16/07/2018) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's history through the stories of individual towns and cities, revealing what life was really like at key moments in our turbulent past. Alice's journey takes her to: Roman Chester, Viking York, Norman Winchester, Tudor Norwich, Regency Cheltenham & Victorian Belfast. In Chester, Britain's most Roman city, Alice enjoys a Roman feast, checks out an extraordinary archaeological find deep underground and explores a radical theory on the Romans' plans for the city. In York, Britain's most Viking city, Alice takes part in a Viking battle, meets the metal detectorists behind one of the UK's greatest archaeological finds, and gets her hands on a Viking poo. In Winchester, Britain's most Norman city, Alice storms a castle in chain mail, investigates the origins of modern surgery, and tucks in to an eel pie. Alice learns the harsh reality of religious intolerance, uncovers the origins of Norwich City FC's iconic canary, and experiences humiliating Tudor justice. In Cheltenham, Britain's most Regency town, Alice attends a period society ball, investigates the rigid social hierarchy of the age and explores the Regency fondness for enemas. In Belfast, the UK's most Victorian city, Alice visits the shipyards that built the Titanic, gets locked up in the notorious Crumlin Road gaol and takes a crash course in 19th-century female etiquette.

• Britain's Most Historic Towns - Series 3 | DVD | (15/02/2021) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this new series, Alice Roberts once again tells the story of key periods in British history through the story of individual towns.

• The Incredible Human Journey | DVD | (08/06/2009) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dr Alice Roberts (Coast Don't Die Young) travels to the ends of the earth to trace the extraordinary beginnings of the human story in The Human Journey a landmark series for BBC Two. Using the latest genetic climate and archaeological evidence she will discover the five epic routes our ancestors took across the globe and the obstacles and brutal challenges they encountered along the way. She will discover where we came from how our ancestors colonised the world and how their journeys changed us. Today's global population is extraordinarily diverse; yet we all share one thing in common: DNA that tells us one astonishing message - we are all closely related. In this series Alice Roberts will show how most of us descend from a tiny group of men and women who left Africa in a perilous crossing - and then went on to colonise the rest of the world. She will explain how all Europeans living today are descended from just a handful of women why different ethnic groups look the way they do what makes some of us able to tolerate milk and alcohol and why others are great at conserving heat. Alice Roberts will interrogate the evidence to address mysteries including how our ancestors reached Australia without boats and what happened when they came face-to-face with other human species like Homo erectus. She will also explore how they overcame extraordinary challenges - from supervolcanoes to climatic disaster - to become the people we are today.

• Britain's Most Historic Towns: Series 2 - Alice Roberts | DVD | (01/07/2019) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this new series, Alice Roberts once again tells the story of key periods in British history through the story of individual towns. This time around, Alice finds herself in Cardiff, Stirling, Canterbury, Bristol, Dover and Oxford as she unpacks historic eras that include Edwardian, Stuarts, World War II and even Plantagenet. Whether she's experiencing life as a bagpipe playing Plantagenet pilgrim, a World War II ATS girl during the Battle of Britain or just kicking back as an Edwardian lady of leisure, Alice experiences what life would have been like for people living through some of the most important periods in British history.

• Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All five episodes of the documentary presented by historian Alice Roberts in which she explores why so many ancient civilisations ultimately collapsed. Roberts considers the impact of natural disasters, plague and conflict on the downfall of some of the greatest civilisations in history including the Romans, Saxons and Vikings. The episodes are: 'Ancient Global Warming', 'Rome's Rise and Fall', 'The Darkest Age', 'God's Holy Warriors' and 'Medieval Mystery'.

• Bewitched - Season 2 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Episodes Comprise: 1. Alias Darrin Stephens 2. A Very Special Delivery 3. We're In For A Bad Spell 4. My Grandson The Warlock 5. The Joker Is A Card 6. Take Two Aspirin 7. Trick Or Treat 8. The Very Informal Dress 9. And Then I Wrote 10. Junior Executive 11. Aunt Clara's Old Flame 12. A Strange Little Visitor 13. My Boss The Teddy

• Origins of Us | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £10.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  We have uncovered the secrets of the atom and travelled to the moon. But how did humans come to be so successful? This series explores the anatomical changes that have given us and our ancestors the edge. Everything from the way that we walk to the shape of our jaw and even the way our thumbs move connects us intimately to the struggles and triumphs of our ancestors. Yet many of those changes have come at a surprising cost and the problems we face now are a direct consequence of our evolutionary journey. As much about our bodies today as about our bodies 6 million years ago Origins Of Us will change the way you see yourself.

• PANDORA'S BOX | Blu Ray | (16/09/2024) from £16.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Eureka Entertainment to re-issue G. W. Pabst's sordid melodrama PANDORA'S BOX, one of silent cinema's great masterworks, starring Louise Brooks. Presented on Blu-ray from a new restoration as part of The Masters of Cinema Series. Available from 16 September 2024.In a role intended at one point for Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel), 22 year-old Louise Brooks (Diary of a Lost Girl), with her fragile beauty and iconic dark bob hairstyle, gives a performance decades ahead of its time that immortalised her as an icon. Largely condemned and censored upon its initial release for its daring treatment of sexuality and female desire, Brooks' understated yet erotically charged performance endures as among the most modern of the silent era.Adapted from a pair of plays by Frank Wedekind, Pandora's Box tells the story of sex worker Lulu, a free spirit whose open sexuality breeds chaos in its wake. When Lulu's latest lover, the newspaper editor Dr Ludwig Schon (Fritz Kortner, The Hands of Orlac), announces plans to leave her to marry a more respectable woman, Lulu is devastated. Cast in a musical revue written by Schon's son, Alwa (Francis Lederer, The Return of Dracula), Lulu seduces Schon once more - only to have their tryst exposed, and Schon's plans for a more socially acceptable marriage shattered. Left with no choice but to marry Lulu, Schon meets with tragedy on their wedding night. Lulu stands trial for the incident, facing years of imprisonment. With the aid of her former pimp (Carl Goetz, Tom Sawyer), an infatuated lesbian countess (Alice Roberts, The Merry Widower) and Alwa, she flees toward a fate of increasing squalor and peril, finally crossing paths one Christmas Eve with Jack the Ripper.Reviled and bowdlerised at its debut, Pandora's Box has since been recognised as one of the masterpieces of early German cinema. A sordid melodrama made with great style, it affirms G. W. Pabst as a daring and important director and Louise Brooks as one of cinema's most exquisite and distinctive performers. The Masters of Cinema series is proud to present Pabst's masterpiece in a new restoration on Blu-ray.1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray from a definitive 2K digital restoration | Optional English subtitles | Orchestral Score by Peer Raben | Audio commentary by critic Pamela Hutchinson | The New Woman & The Jazz Age: The Dangerous Feminine in Pandora's Box - Visual appreciation by author and critic Kat Ellinger | Godless Beasts - Video essay by David Cairns | Lulu in Wonderland - Video essay by Fiona Watson | Restoring Pandora's Box - Interview with Martin Koerber | PLUS: A 28-page collector's booklet featuring an essay by film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith, author of Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City

• Time Team Digs - A History Of Britain | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £44.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Channel 4's TIME TEAM is without a doubt the most popular and longest-running history programme on television using their own unique and entertaining style to make archaeology popular and accessible. Over the past decade the team have completed more than 130 excavations spanning the history of the British Isles from the Bronze Age up to modern times. 'Time Team Digs: A History Of Britain' includes no less than eight especially made programmes featuring the best and most exciting d

• PANDORA'S BOX | Blu Ray | (30/10/2023) from £34.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Britain's Most Historic Towns with Alice Roberts: Series 1/2/3 | DVD | (20/11/2023) from £23.48   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alice Cooper - The Nightmare Returns | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Filmed in Detroit on Halloween Night 1986 this film captures Alice Cooper and his band in a memorable show featuring eighteen of their best songs and all the theatrics to go with them. Includes 'Welcome To My Nightmare' 'No More Mister Nice Guy' 'Billion Dollar Babies' and 'Go To Hell'.

• Bewitched - Season 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Included in this magical DVD collection is the Emmy Award-winning series entire first season; 36 episodes (originally in black and white here colourised for DVD) that introduce one of the funniest ensemble casts in TV history. Dick York as Samantha's mortal husband Darin Agnes Moorehead as his witch of a mother-in-law Endora. Alice Pea

• The Celts - Blood, Iron & Sacrifice - Alice Roberts & Neil Oliver - As Seen on BBC2 | DVD | (16/11/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pandora's Box | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £17.68   |  Saving you £2.31 (13.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made at the very end of the silent era, Pandora's Box is one of the last flowerings of German cinema's greatest decade. It also marked the highpoint of two careers: Austrian director GW Pabst and American actress Louise Brooks. A merge of two linked plays by the decadent German playwright Frank Wedekind, it's the story of Lulu, the archetypal femme fatale (the same plays served as source for Alban Berg's masterly 1935 opera). At once sensual and innocent, a force of uninhibited sexuality, Lulu brings ruin on all her lovers both male and female, and ultimately upon herself. Hollywood never knew what to do with Brooks who, with her fierce intelligence and her open delight in sex, refused to play the coy flappers then in fashion. In Pabst, whose genius, she wrote, "lay in getting to the heart of a person", she found the director she needed, and he brought out her a screen persona with a depth of eroticism that's still breathtaking to see. The film features some of the finest German acting talent of the period--Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer--but it's Brooks' luminous performance that rivets the eye and makes her a great screen icon. Though the action is nominally set in the late-19th century--Lulu ends up in a shadowy London where she encounters Jack the Ripper--Pandora's Box breathes the gamey air of the Weimar Republic, vividly captured by Günther Krampf's pungent photography. This release runs well over two hours and includes, for the first time in decades, over 30 minutes of cut footage, restoring the film to something very close to Pabst's original masterpiece. On the DVD: Pandora's Box on DVD is a clean, crisp transfer in the classic 4:3 ratio, and the mono soundtrack brings out all the detail of Peer Rubens' Kurt Weill-inflected score, stylishly performed by the Kontraste Ensemble. Dialogue intertitles can be read in either English or German. We also get an outstanding 60-minute documentary, Looking for Lulu, about Brooks' life and career: warmly narrated by Shirley MacLaine, it features excerpts from an interview with Brooks from 1976. --Philip Kemp

• Coast | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £8.30   |  Saving you £31.69 (381.81%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Discover the curious relationship between the British and the seas in this series first shown on the BBC. The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9 000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine to rebuilding the Titanic using co

• Time Team - Vol. 3 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £40.00   |  Saving you £-15.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tony Robinson and the Time Team return to DVD!

• Coast 2 - Complete BBC TV Series 2 | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £5.04   |  Saving you £24.95 (495.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Series 2 of the acclaimed BBC factual documentary - uncovering the mysteries and secrets of the spectacular British Coastline.

• Coast Series 7 | DVD | (18/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coast explores the edge of our lives, the coastline that marries us to the sea. It takes in the life of that coastline, the people who live there, the history played out upon it and the sea itself, a tempestuous and unpredictable bride that also brings food and comfort to those who visit its shores.Nick Crane is joined by a fascinated and fascinating team of expert presenters including Neil Oliver, Miranda Krestovnikoff, Mark Horton, Tessa Dunlop, Dick Strawbridge, Andy Torbet, Hermione Cockburn, Ian McMillan and Ruth Goodman as they discover the rich landscapes and lifestyles that appear along our shores.Featuring:The Mysteries of the IslesLife Beyond the EdgeThe Hidden History of HarboursPeril from the SeasThe Riddle of the TidesThe Secret Life of Beaches

• Coast - Series Six | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £25.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coast and Beyond takes the shoreline as its starting point moving inland and outwards to the sea and other continents as it explores and tells the story of life on the outer reaches of this island country we live on. The tales come thick and fast - of geography commerce and the deeply human. Coast's intrepid and inquisitive team of presenters led by Nicholas Crane clamber over cliff tops ride the rough seas and explore the history and evolution of life as it is lived along the Coast and Beyond. Featuring: London to Antwerp Devon and Cornwall The Netherlands The Western Isles and Shetland Wales Border to Border Sweden