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Presents Jules Verne's classic novel in which a French professor and his two companions sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo, and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.
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A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
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Emily Watson stars in this powerful, emotional story about the choice between love and loyalty. As a child, Maggie Tulliver adores her brother Tom and desperately seeks his love and approval, but never receives it. While Tom grows up to be the kind of person the world approves of - dutiful and proud, Maggie becomes the kind of person the world judges harshly. A woman ahead of her time, brimming with intelligence and imagination, Maggie is difficult...
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An innocent man, Edmond Dantes, is imprisoned for years on a godforsaken island while the friend who betrayed him takes Dantes ravishing fiancé for himself. Dantes eventually escapes, recovers a fortune in buried pirate treasure, transforms himself into the mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, and methodically goes about exacting his revenge.
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Henry, now forty-five, marries Jane Seymour. Jane helps to reconcile Mary with her father, but only after Mary signs a paper admitting that she is illegitimate. Jane gives birth to a son, but dies shortly thereafter. Devastated by Jane's death, Henry locks himself away, drawing fantasy palaces, with caustic court jester Will Sommers as his sole companion. Henry then marries Anne of Cleves, a plain and unsophisticated German aristrocrat that he soon...
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Atia, the sister of Caesar and mother of Octavian, is coerced by the senate to reveal the contents of the late general's will - which discloses the fact that he has named Octavian as his successor. This makes him a target for Brutus and Cassius and the other conspirators but Mark Antony is also disappointed by the news. Tyrannus sees Octavian as his responsibility and the pair agree to flee Rome.
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Antony has Octavian bitten by a snake and leaves him to die. He claims the murderers are consuls, who he then executes whilst banishing Brutus and Cassius. Agrippa, charged with disposing of Octavian's body, takes him to vestal virgin Camane who heals him. Tyrannus discovers that his wife is dead and his son is being raised by the kindly Marius who can give him a better life. He returns to the gladiatorial ring, where Antony recognizes and imprisons...
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Tyrannus is the bodyguard to Julius Caesar but, on the fatal day when the conspirators plan to murder Caesar, Tyrannus has been lured away by a gang in league with the assassins who have kidnapped his son Piso. Tyrannus manages to save his son but by the time he returns to the senate Caesar has been murdered, secretly leaving a will that names his adoptive nephew Octavian as his heir.
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Disguised as simple slaves, Tyrannus and Octavian look for allies in the countryside but they are captured at General Magonius's farm and taken to Arkham, where men are forced to train as gladiators. As an ex-gladiator himself Tyrannus is able to acquit himself well and to overcome Magonius, inspiring the other imprisoned men to revolt and escape. He and Octavian see a group of horsemen coming towards them but are relieved to find that they are led...
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Octavius relinquishes the beautiful Vestal Virgin, Camane, so that he can devote himself to being the Emperor of Rome. Tyrannus, the former slave and gladiator, joins Octavius' forces in their fight against the power-hungry Marc Antony, with the fate of Rome and the western world hanging in the balance.
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Antony takes Octavian and Tyrannus to his villa though Tyrannus is suspicious of their host, since he tries to separate him from Octavian. Antony invites a group of citizens loyal to Julius Caesar to the villa; Octavian outlines his plan of a Roman Empire but reception is mixed. Tyrannus is skeptical but leaves for Cyprus to check on the welfare of his family. Antony persuades Octavian that they should sign a pact wherein if anything happens to the...
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In this BBC full-cast production, Othello is drawn further and further into jealous rage by the manipulative Iago.
In this story of evil cunning perverting a once noble mind, radio captures Iago's sly hints and boasts to the audience with shocking clarity. The listener is led along an emotional path that grips with fascinating horror until the play's tragic conclusion.
Staring Ray Fearon as Othello, James Frain as Iago and