"Actor: Angela Rippon"

• The Very Best of Morecambe & Wise | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £3.49   |  Saving you £9.50 (272.21%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Quite often the problem with Morecambe and Wise "Greatest Hits" compilations is that they home in on the handful of sketches and routines, which are repeated to the point of nauseam--a dancing Angela Rippon, for example. There are certainly a few such chestnuts here--Glenda Jackson in the play "what Ernie wrote", the breakfast striptease routine and "Singing In The Rain", though that particular classic can bear up to any number of repeated viewings. Much of the stuff here, however, is less familiar. There are seemingly inconsequential sketches of Eric and Ernie in their flat and even--Laurel and Hardy-style--in bed together in which their oddly intimate, bickering relationship is better explored than in some of the stagier items. Much of the scripts and skits here haven't stood the test of time--old innuendos or obsolete references that seem to belong to the 50s, let alone the 70s. But even the creakiest material is rescued not just by Eric's punctually daft persona but also the often-patronised little Ern who, as this selection shows, was no passenger. Among guest highlights, the sight of Arthur Lowe breaking, surreally, from a Captain Bligh into a Humphrey Bogart impression is one of the many ad-lib gems here. On the DVD: Full screen, special features consisting of scene selection and artist profiles, in which it is outlined just how many years Morecambe and Wise toiled and honed down their act, in music hall radio, film and TV. By the time of their 1977 zenith, when 28 million people watched their Christmas show, they had worked together for over 30 years. --David Stubbs

• Ballroom Dancing with Angela Rippon | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's time to draw back the velvet curtains polish the floor grab your partner and step out in style: ballroom dancing is hot again! A clear concise fun instructional DVD which teaches the classic ballroom dancing technique. Includes 5 of the best and much-loved ballroom dances - The Waltz Cha Cha Cha The Tango Quick Step and The Jive. Instruction is provided by Ian Waite professional ballroom dancing coach and European Latin American dance champion.

• Angela Rippon - Fabulously Fit At 50 And Beyond | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £6.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (151.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mention the word exercise to a lot of people over fifty and you'll see their eyes glaze over. The mere idea of doing anything that involves physical exertion sweating and (Lord help us) squeezing into something lycra is clearly both painful and anathema to them. But the inescapable fact is that from the age of 50 to 100 exercise is almost more important in our lives than it was when we were thirty-somethings. From 50 onwards exercise has a wholly specific role in protecting the bod