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• Soul Music From Terry Pratchett's Discworld | DVD | (13/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Wyrd Sisters From Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld | DVD | (06/11/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Wyrd Sisters is an animated six-episode miniseries adaptation of one of author Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. The books offer an alternate reality that has proven irresistible to an avid, international audience--a universe where the world really is flat after all, and is supported by four elephants floating through the cosmos on the back of a giant turtle. It's a world where fantasy conventions have been filtered through an antic, satirical lens that slyly warps the actions and motives of the wizards, witches, monarchs, and knaves that populate them, and it is suggestive of a sword & sorcery counterpart to Douglas Adams' venerable Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Wyrd Sisters retains the verbal wit and colourfully stylised visual terrain of Pratchett's cracked re-imagining of familiar mythological themes, although modest animation techniques relegate its impact to the realm of older TV cartoons. Sci-fi aficionados spoiled by lavish computer graphics and big-screen state of the art will wonder what all the fuss is about; Pratchett's fans, however, won't mind. An intricate plot, set in motion by the murder of King Verence by the utterly dim-witted Duke Felmet, encompasses a smuggled baby, an itinerant theatrical troupe, a kiss lasting 18 years, time travel and other poker-faced twists of fate cohering around the three titular heroines, a coven of rather dotty witches. A droll, sociable Death (voiced by Christopher Lee) epitomises the breezy comic spirit that fuels Pratchett's stories. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com

• Terry Pratchett's Discworld | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £49.90   |  Saving you £-19.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Terry Pratchett's Soul Music: Floating through space is a giant turtle named Great A'Tuin. On his mighty back stand four elephants. On their backs rests the Discworld. What happens there can be very very strange indeed... There's a weird music taking over the land - it's fast it's furious and they call it The Music With Rocks In. And what's more... it's alive. And even more sinister... Death's gone missing and who can possibly be qualified - or willing - to step into his black cape and wield the scythe? Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters: If someone thrust a new born baby into your arms and told you to look after it what would you do? Suppose you had a sneaking suspicion it was no ordinary baby? And suppose again you were Granny Weatherwax - the most practical and pragmatic of a trio of ill-assorted witches. But once even this problem is solved a greater one takes it's place. After murder and skulduggery in the royal palace the land - now ruled by a corrupt Duke - cries out for a new leader. Not the people but the very land itself is calling for help and the Wyrd Sisters must listen. It's time for Granny and her two companions Magrat and Nanny Ogg to get involved in matters both magical and regal and give the land the King it deserves...