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• This Life The Complete Collection | DVD | (18/04/2016) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  It was the drama that defined the spirit of the Nineties, capturing the imagination of a whole generation of viewers. Featuring a group of twenty-something lawyers living in London, This Life broke new ground with its realistic portrayal of their lifestyle, including drug-taking and ˜casual sex'. Starring Daniella Nardini, Jack Davenport, Andrew Lincoln, Amita Dhiri, Jason Hughes and Ramon Tikaram. This Life The Complete Collection brings together Series 1, 2 and This Life + 10 for the first time. SERIES 1 This multi-award-winning cult series eavesdrops on the lives of a group of young lawyers sharing a London house. Wild child Anna has trouble with men. Arrogant Miles is torn between two women. Control-freak Milly is torn between two men. Egg can't decide what to do with his life. Ferdy is bisexual and confused. And Warren is proud to be gay, as long as it doesn't mean telling his family. SERIES 2 Wild child Anna has trouble with men. Arrogant Miles is torn between two women. Control-freak Milly is torn between two men. Egg can't decide what to do with his life. Ferdy is bisexual and confused. And Warren is proud to be gay, as long as it doesn't mean telling his family. This BAFTA award-winning cult series eavesdrops on the lives of a group of young lawyers sharing a London house. THIS LIFE + 10 Miles, Anna, Warren, Egg and Milly are back, in a feature-length reunion special starring the original cast. Ten years on, there have been big changes in the characters' lives. One of them has become a commercial success after writing a book based on their friendship, and a TV production company is keen to film the group's reunion. One thing's for certain, if it's anything like the last time they met, sparks are bound to fly...

• This Life - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £39.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (25.01%)   |  RRP £49.99

  First aired on British television in 1996 This Life chronicles the lives of a group of house-sharing twentysomething professionals as they try to make sense of life love and each other. This Life - Series 1: Providing a timely shake-up of TV drama conventions This Life's refusal to conform was its key to success. While critics deemed it 'immoral' for its graphic depictions of homosexuality and blas attitude to drug-taking fans revelled in its

• This Life +10 (2007) | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fast forward a decade and This Life + 10 re-introduces Miles (Jack Davenport) Milly (Amita Dhiri) Warren (Jason Hughes) Egg (Andrew Lincoln) and Anna (Daniela Nardini) in a one-off 90-minute special. One of the group has become a commercial success after writing a book based on their friendship and a TV production company is keen to film the group's reunion. Discover how the group's lives have changed and whether they are friends lovers or enemies - or all three!

• This Life - Series 1 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (35.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  First aired on British television in 1996 This Life chronicles the lives of a group of house-sharing twentysomething professionals as they try to make sense of life love and each other. Providing a timely shake-up of TV drama conventions This Life's refusal to conform was its key to success. While critics deemed it 'immoral' for its graphic depictions of homosexuality and blas attitude to drug-taking fans revelled in its honest and objective portray

• This Life - The Complete Series One | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Few would have guessed from its initial headline-grabbing shock tactics, but the BBC's This Life went on to become one of the most influential television dramas of the 1990s. The show's creators certainly went for the jugular with liberal smatterings of sex, drugs and general debauchery--not many television shows then or now come with an 18 certificate. But beneath all the surface gloss lay a drama of real substance. The first 11 episodes begin with the five individuals coming together in London's legal world and then take us through their shared experiences. This Life's great strength was that there was enough drama between the main protagonists to maintain the show's momentum, while introducing just the right amount of secondary characters (Delilah, Ferdy)--a trick that Queer as Folk, perhaps the show's natural successor, was also to employ. The chemistry between the leading players has rarely been bettered since and, all in all, This Life has aged not a jot. On the DVD: while there is little in the way of extra features, the DVD format suits This Life perfectly. And where 430 minutes of VHS would be too unwieldy, this two-disc collection is sharp and snappy. The menu layout is excellent, enabling easy access to those classic moments, and the hip soundtrack (The Prodigy, Iggy Pop, Dubstar) sounds crisp and clear. --Phil Udell

• This Life - Series 2 | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £49.88   |  Saving you £-9.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Miles Anna Egg Milly Warren and Ferdy return for the second series of the groundbreaking BBC drama This Life. This time around life is even more complicated: Egg is having serious problems with money and direction; Milly enters an affair with her boss O'Donnell; Anna is still in love with Miles but having a hard time accepting it; meanwhile Miles gets engaged despite his feelings for Anna; Warren gets arrested for 'cruising' in the local park and decides to le

• John Adams - American Classic | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  John Adams is America''s most frequently performed living composer. He has managed the considerable feat of writing accessible music that still surprises and challenges its listeners. In the words of the New Yorker he is ''the man who takes the agony out of modern music''. Though he is not the only composer who has combined a classical education with a pop sensibility he is the one who has made the synthesis stick. Richly harmonic his music embraces just about every style from Minimalism to Mahler rock to jazz hymns to Liberace but always winds up sounding like Adams. Adams is also one of music''s most controversial figures - thanks to opera. Nixon in China started a whole new genre in modern opera. The Death of Klinghoffer dealt with the 1985 hijacking of a cruise liner by four Palestinian terrorists. Now made into a feature film it is one of the most contentious operatic works written in over a century. Ironically Adams started out hating opera but his own musical development made him the perfect composer for it. This profile of the man who led contemporary music out of the cul-de-sac of the avant-garde and revitalised modem opera centres on a major interview filmed at his home outside San Francisco. There are contributions from stage director Peter Sellars librettist Alice Goodman and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and extensive performance extracts from Nixon in China and El Nino. His orchestral compositions Shaker Loops The Chamber Symphony and Gnarly Buttons are also featured.