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• Pardon the Expression - The Complete Series | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (42.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A spin-off from Coronation Street, this sitcom follows the mixed fortunes of former Weatherfield boutique owner Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe). In his new position as assistant manager at a Dobson and Hawks chain store, the punctilious but ambitious Mr. Swindley seizes upon every opportunity to scale the social heights - arranging everything from intimate dinner parties to glittering charity galas and swinging teenage boutiques.Featuring scripts from an award-winning team that included Coronation Street contributors Harry Driver and Vince Powell, as well as noted playwright Jack Rosenthal, Pardon the Expression helped to define the type of comic role for which BAFTA winner Arthur Lowe would be most fondly remembered: that of the pompous, quietly floundering buffoon. Betty Driver - soon to be installed behind the bar of the Rover's Return - also stars as canteen manageress Mrs. Edgeley, with Dad's Army favourites John Le Mesurier and John Laurie, and Coronation Street stars Julie Goodyear and Amanda Barrie also making appearances.

• Far From The Madding Crowd | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £17.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-38.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  John Schlesinger's solid adaptation of Thomas Hardy's novel sees three rival suitors vying for the affections of the beautiful Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie decked out in a variety of bonnets and frilly dresses), who has just inherited a farm. The men in her life are stout, whiskered yeoman Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished local farmer; neurotic, repressed squire William Boldwood (Peter Finch); and handsome rascal Sgt Troy (Terrence Stamp), who dresses as if he's Flashman and breaks women's hearts for a hobby.Thanks to cameraman Nic Roeg and production designer Richard MacDonald (who also worked for Joseph Losey), 19th-century Dorset looks as pretty and as picturesque as a John Constable reproduction on top of a biscuit tin. Not that Schlesinger or screenwriter Frederic Raphael underplay the duress of rural life. We see the hardship of the farm workers' lives as the seasons turn. The film opens with a spectacular sequence in which Gabriel Oak's dog drives his flock of sheep over a cliff, thereby forcing him into penury. Whether hunger or heartbreak, every character here suffers. Bathsheba (like the model Christie plays in Darling) is a free-spirit in a society in which women's rights are severely restricted. --Geoffrey Macnab

• Pardon The Expression - Series 1 | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (55.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pardon The Expression is the spin-off from Coronation Street which follows Leonard Swindley after his run of bad luck in Weatherfield as he moves on to become assistant manager of a branch of Dobson and Hawks stores.

• Lovers Rock Gala Awards | DVD | (01/12/2009) from £12.37   |  Saving you £-0.38 (-3.20%)   |  RRP £11.99

  The UK's Biggest Ever Reggae Show Filmed Live @ the O2 Brixton Academy - July 2009Such a collection of artists has never been captured before on DVD. `Lover's Rock' has been played at music festivals, night clubs and households around the world for the last 30 years and is still popular today. The show hosted by Grammy Award Winner Jazzie B (OBE) features 16 of the top selling British Lovers Rock icons, including 38 of the biggest most popular love songs (running time: 2h 23m), made up from UK No 1 Pop Chart Hits and a number of world renowned hit songs.Featured Artists: Caron Wheeler, Sugar Minott, Trevor Walters, Winston Reedy, Susan Cadogan, Tradition, Sandra Cross, Michael Gordon, Paul Dawkins, Lorna Bennett, Errol Dunkley, Jimmy Lindsey, Vivian Jones, Dennis Bovell and Jean Adebambo.Featured Songs: `Back to Life', `Good Thing Going', `Stuck On You', `Paradise', `You Know How To Love Me', `Every Little Bit Of My Heart', `Breakfast In Bed', `Natural Woman', `Man In Me', `OK Fred', `Sugar Love', Plus many more...The biggest Reggae concert DVD to come out of the UK, this DVD will bring out the singer in you.