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Robin of Sherwood. [videorecording] / by Carpenter, Richard.(CARDINAL)746785; Grace, Nickolas.; Praed, Michael.; Winstone, Ray,1957-(CARDINAL)786496; Acorn Media (Firm)(CARDINAL)340133; Goldcrest Films and Television.; HTV (Group);
Disc 1. Robin hood and the sorcerer (Part one & two) ; The witch of Elsdon ; Seven poor knights from acre -- Disc 2. Alan a dale ; The king's fool ; The prophecy -- Disc 3. The children of Israel ; Lord of the trees ; The enchantment -- Disc 4. The swords of wayland (Part one two) ; The greatest enemy -- Disc 5. Special features.Series created by, Richard Carpenter.Michael Praed, Ray Winstone, Nickolas Grace.In episode 1, while imprisoned in Nottingham Castle, Robin meets the men who will follow him into Sherwood. Epsisode 2, continues the adventure with Robin's escape and his rescue of the Lady Marion. In episode 3, Jennet of Elsdon, accused of witchcraft and sentenced to die, is offered a reprieve by the Sheriff if she will use her powers against Robin. Episode 4: Robin faces the wrath of the Knights Templar who believe he has stolen their sacred emblem. Epsisode 5: Alan A Dale, a young minstral, is heartbroken because his beloved is being forced to marry the Sheriff. Episode 6: Robin earns the gratitude of King Richard because of his rescue during an ambush. In episode 7, Herne prophesies the death of King Richard and Prince John arrives with a mysterious prisoner. In Episode 8, the Sheriff plots the murder of a Jewish merchant to whom he owes a great deal of money. In episode 9, a band of Flemish mercenaries are hired to finish Robin Hood. Episode 10 finds Robin bewitched by the evil enchantress Lilith. Episode 11, Robin Hood and his band must overcome black magic and wickedness as they defend a village of innocent people from a group of terrorizing horsemen ruled by Morgwyn of Ravenscar. Episode 12, Morgwyn has bewitched Robin's followers leaving him alone to face the most powerful forces of darkness. Episode 13, The Sheriff, threatened with the loss of office, sets out to finally dispose of Robin Hood.Not rated.DVD, region 1, full screen (4:3) presentation; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Films for the hearing impaired.; Robin Hood (Legendary character); Television series.;
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The wild west. [videorecording] by Cunningham, Liam,1961-; Leon, David,1980-; Praed, Michael,1960-; Stephens, Toby,1969-;
Re-evaluates three of the most famous figures of the time. Colonel Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn, Billy the kid, and the role that Wyatt Earp played in the gunfight at the OK Corral. Wild West presents the facts, uncovering secrets and twists, proving that once and for all, fact can be a lot more interesting than fiction. Includes dramatic re-enactments. MPAA Rating: unratedDVD
Subjects: Billy, the Kid, 1859-1881.; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Earp, Wyatt, 1848-1929.; DVDs; Historical films.; Television mini-series.;
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Robin of Sherwood: Michael Praed [videorecording]
The centuries-old legend of Robin Hood was never more vividly brought to life than in this acclaimed British series. Combining history with elements of magic and mysticism, and set against a backdrop of gritty medieval realism, Robin of Sherwood has captivated fans of all ages. Heading up the superb ensemble cast are Michael Praed (Dynasty) as Robin of Loxley, Judi Trott as Lady Marion, Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast) as seething-mad Will Scarlet, Clive Mantle (Alien 3) as Little John,  Mark Ryan (Transformers, Black Sails) introduces the legend's first Saracen companion Nasir, Phil Rose as Friar Tuck, Peter Llewellyn Williams as Much, Robert Addie as Sir Guy of Gisburne, and Nickolas Grace (Brideshead Revisited) as the greedy, conniving Sheriff of Nottingham. Shot entirely on location in English castles and countryside, the series boasts an authentic atmosphere enhanced by an award-winning soundtrack of haunting melodies by the Irish band Clannad. Includes all 13 episodes in Series 1 & 2. Original episode order as intended by series creator. This Blu-ray was created from a high-definition transfer and restoration of the original program elements. While it represents a vast improvement in picture quality and level of detail over previous releases or transmissions, viewers may notice variable quality due to the inherent limitations and age of the original elements. Special features: 1983's The Electric Theatre Show Documentary, upgraded and expanded from the original film elements in HD (Disc one); Stills galleries (discs two and three) - nearly 500 images presented in HD for the first time; Dolby Surround track (mixed by the production's original sound engineers); Music-only tracks on selected episodes; Five episode commentaries, featuring Richard Carpenter, Ian Sharp, Robert Young and Paul Knight; Disc 4 is in PAL format. It will not play on USA Blu-Ray and DVD players but may play on some computers. Disc 4 contents: Nothing's Forgotten: The Making of Robin of Sherwood (remastered) - two exclusive documentaries covering the production of the Michael Praed years; Series one and two outtakes; New featurettes on three episodes featuring Robert Young, George Baker and Philip Jackson; Textless and Foreign titles; PDF material including PR, Richard Carpenter's original story treatment and several scripts. *** NOTE *** Disc 4 is in PAL format.  It WILL NOT PLAY on USA Blu-Ray and DVD players but may play on some computers. ***Blu-ray; requires Blu-Ray player
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The unseen Beatles [videorecording] / by Bristol, Vera.; Beatles.(CARDINAL)138807;
Narrator, Michael Praed ; camera, Michael Timney, Chris Sugden Smith ; editor, Nicholas Packer.Follow the Beatles on tour with newly discovered archive footage, photographs, and home movies from 1956-1966.DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation, enhanced; Dolby Digital stereo., NTSC.
Subjects: DVD-Video discs.; Biographical television programs.; Documentary television programs.; Television programs for the hearing impaired.; Beatles.; Beatles; Foreign films.; Motion pictures, British.; Rock musicians;
For private home use only.
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Robin of Sherwood [videorecording] : the complete series / by Connery, Jason,1963-actor.; Frewer, Matt,1958-actor.; Rhys-Davies, John,actor.(CARDINAL)340715; Winstone, Ray,1957-actor.(CARDINAL)786496; Young, Robert,television director.(CARDINAL)836124; Cinedigm (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)344021;
Ray Winstone, Jonathan Rhys-davies, Matt Frewer, Jason Connery, Michael Praed, Mark Ryan, Clive Mantle, John Nettles, John Abineri, Jeremy Bulloch.Sword and sorcery, magic and superstition come together in a vibrant retelling of a much-loved legend. Cast as the savior or the common people by Herne the Hunter, God of the forest, young Robin of Loxley leads his gang of Merry Men against forces of corruption and evil.Rating: Not rated.DVD, region 1, full screen (4x3); Dolby digital stereo.
Subjects: Action and adventure television programs.; Fantasy television programs.; Television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Robin Hood (Legendary character); Good and evil; Heroes;
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The Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1918 / by Quiller-Couch, Arthur,1863-1944.(CARDINAL)153652;
Robert Mannying -- William Langland -- John Barbour -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Thomas Hoccleve -- John Lydgate -- King James I of Scotland -- Robert Henryson -- William Dunbar -- John Skelton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey -- Nicholas Grimald -- Alexander Scott -- Robert Wever -- Richard Edwardes -- George Gascoigne -- Alexander Montgomerie -- William Stevenson -- Nicholas Breton -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- Edmund Spenser -- John Lyly -- Anthony Munday -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke -- Thomas Lodge -- George Peele -- Robert Greene -- George Chapman -- Robert Southwell -- Henry Constable -- Samuel Daniel -- Mark Alexander Boyd -- Joshua Sylvester -- Michael Drayton -- Christopher Marlowe -- William Shakespeare -- Richard Rowlands -- Thomas Nashe -- Thomas Campion -- John Reynolds -- Sir Henry Wotton -- John Davies -- Robert Ayton -- Ben Jonson -- John Donne -- Richard Barnefield -- Thomas Dekker -- Thomas Heywood -- John Fletcher -- John Webster -- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling -- Phineas Fletcher -- Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Sir John Beaumont -- William Drummond -- Giles Fletcher -- Francis Beaumont -- John Ford -- George Wither -- William Browne of Tavistock -- Robert Herrick -- Francis Quarles -- Henry King -- George Herbert -- James Shirley -- Thomas Carew -- Jasper Mayne -- William Habington -- Thomas Randolph -- Sir William Davenant -- Edmund Waller -- John Milton -- Sir John Suckling -- Richard Fanshawe -- William Cartwright -- James Graham -- Thomas Jordan -- Richard Crashaw -- Richard Lovelace -- Abraham Cowley -- Alexander Brome -- Andrew Marvell -- Henry Vaughan -- John Bunayna -- William Strode -- Thomas Stancey -- Thomas D'Urfey -- Charles Cotton -- Katherine Philips -- Thomas Traherne -- John Dryden -- Charles Webbe -- Sir George Etheredge -- Thomas Flatman -- Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset -- Sir Charles Sedley -- Aphra Behn -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. John Sheffield, Duke of Buckinghamshire -- Thomas Otway -- John Oldham -- Matthew Prior -- William Walsh -- Lady Brisel Baillie -- William Congreve -- Joseph Addison -- Isaac Watts -- Thomas Parnell -- Allan Ramsay -- William Oldys -- John Gay -- Alexander Pope -- Henry Carey -- William Broome -- James Thomson -- Charles Wesley -- Samuel Johnson -- Richard Jago -- William Shenstone -- Thomas Gray -- William Collins -- Mark Akenside -- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt -- John Scott -- Thomas George Smollett -- Christopher Smart -- Jane Elliott -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Robert Cunningham-Graham -- William Cowper -- James Beattie -- Isobel Pagan -- Anna Barbauld -- FAnny Greville -- Michael Bruce -- Anne Lindsay -- William Jones -- Thomas Chatterton -- George Crabbe -- William Blake -- Robert Burns -- Henry Rowe -- William Lisle Bowles -- Joanna Bailie -- Mary Lamb -- Carolina Nairn -- James Hogg -- William Wordsworth -- Walter Scott -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Robert Southey -- Walter savage Landor -- Joseph Blanco White -- Samuel Rogers -- Charles Lamb -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Moore -- Edward Thurlow -- Ebenezer Elliott -- Allan Cunningham -- Leigh Hunt -- John Kenyon -- Thomas Love Peacock -- Bryan Waller Procter -- George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Aubrey De Vere -- Charles Wolfe -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- John Keble -- John Clare -- Felicia Dorothea Hemans -- John Gibson Lockhart -- John Keats -- William Cullen Bryant -- Jeremiah Joseph Callanan -- William Sidney Walker -- George Darley -- Hartley Coleridge -- Thomas Hood -- William Thom -- Henry Taylor -- Thomas Babington Macaulay -- William Barnes -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Gerald Griffin -- James Clarence Mangan -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Richard Henry Horne -- Charles Whitehead -- Robert Stephen Hawker -- Francis Mahony -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Frederick Tennyson -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- John Greenleaf Whittier -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Edward FitzGerald -- Richard Moncton Milnes -- Alfred Tennyson -- William Makepeace Thackeray -- Robert Browning -- George Fox -- Emily Bronte -- Charles Kingsley -- Arthur Hugh Clough -- Walt Whitman -- John Ruskin -- Coventry Patmore -- George Meredith -- Emily Dickinson -- James Thomson -- William Morris -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Bret Harte -- Thomas Hardy -- Andrew Lang -- Robert Bridges -- Alice Meynell -- Selwyn Image -- John Davidson -- Bliss Carman -- Douglas Hyde -- Henry Cust -- Norman Gale -- Rudyard Kipling -- William Butler Yeats -- Herbert Trench -- Lionel Johnson -- Ernest Dowson -- Laurence Binyon -- Ralph Hodgson -- Walter de la Mare -- Gordon Bottomley -- John Masefield -- Wilfrid Thorley -- Alfred Noyes -- James Joyce -- Siegfried Sassoon -- Rupert Brooke -- Wilfrid Owen -- Edmund Blunden.
Subjects: Poetry.; English poetry.;
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The new Oxford book of English verse, 1250-1950 / by Gardner, Helen,1908-1986,compiler,editor.(CARDINAL)124286; Oxford University Press,printer,publisher,printer.(CARDINAL)155676;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 946-953) and index.John Skelton -- Christopher Smart -- Stevie Smith -- Robert Southwell -- Stephen Spender -- Edmund Spenser -- Thomas Stanley -- Robert Louis Stevenson -- William Strode -- Sir John Suckling -- Earl of Surrey see Henry Howard -- Jonathan Swift -- Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Lord (Alfred) Tennyson -- Chidiock Tichborne -- Dylan Thomas -- Edward Thomas -- Francis Thompson -- James Thompson -- James Thomson -- James Thomson -- Aurelian Townshend -- Thomas Traherne -- Walter James Turner -- Henry Vaughan -- Edmund Waller -- Isaac Watts -- John Webster -- Charles Wesley -- Robert Wever -- Oscar Wilde -- John (Earl of Rochester) Wilmot -- George Wither -- Charles Wolfe -- William Wordsworth -- Sir Henry Wotton -- Sir Thomas Wyatt -- William Butler Yeats.Michael Drayton -- William Drummond of Hawthornden -- John Dryden -- William Dunbar -- Sir Edward Dyer -- Thomas Steans Eliot -- William Empson -- Sir Richard Fanshawe -- Edward FitzGerald -- James Elroy Flecker -- Giles Fletcher -- John Fletcher -- Phineas Fletcher -- John Ford -- Roy Suller -- George Gascoigne -- John Gay -- Sidney Godolphin -- Oliver Goldsmith -- James (Marquis of Montrose) Graham -- Robert Graves -- Thomas Gray -- Robert Greene -- Fulke (Lord Brooke) Greville -- William Habington -- Thomas Hardy -- William Ernest Henley -- George Herbert -- Lord Herbert of Cherbury -- Robert Herrick -- Ralph Hodgson -- Thomas Hood -- Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Alfred Edward Housman -- Henry (Earl of Surrey) Howard -- Jmes Leigh Hunt -- Lionel Johnson -- Samuel Johnson -- Ben Jonson -- Thomas Jordan -- James Joyce -- John Keats -- Henry King -- Rudyard Kipling -- Sir Francis Kynaston -- Charles Lamb -- Walter Savage Landor -- William Langland -- David Herbert Lawrence -- Edward Lear -- Thomas Lodge -- Richard Lovelace -- John Lyly -- Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay) Macaulay -- Louis MacNeice -- Christopher Marlowe -- Andrew Marvell -- John Masefield -- George Meredith -- Alice Meynell -- John Milton -- Marquis of Montrose see James Graham -- Thomas Moore -- Thomas Osbert Mordaunt -- William Morris -- Edwin Muir -- Anthony Munday -- Thomas Nashe -- Charles of Orleans -- Wilfred Owen -- Coventry Patmore -- Thomas Love Peacock -- George Peele -- Alexander Pope -- Ezra Pound -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Francis Quarles -- Kathleen Raine -- Sir Walter Ralegh -- Thomas Randolph -- Henry Reed -- Anne Ridler -- Earl of Rochester see John Wilmot -- Samuel Rogers -- Isaac Rosenberg -- Christina Georgina Rossetti -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Charles Sackville -- Thomas Sackville -- Siegfried Sassoon -- John Scott of Amwell -- Sir Walter Scott -- Sir Charles Sedley -- William Shakespeare -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- William Shenstone -- James Shirley -- Sir Philip Sidney -- Edith Sitwell.William Allingham -- Cuckoo song -- In praise of Mary -- The Irish dancer -- The maid of the Moor -- The virgin's song -- Quia amore langueo -- I sing of a maiden -- Adam lay y-bounden -- I have a gentle cock -- Jankin -- Corpus Christi carol -- The jolly shepherd -- The bridal morn -- Western wind -- Hierusalem, my happy home -- The herdmen -- Philon the shepherd -- A pedlar -- Tears -- My lady's tears -- Sister, awake! -- No other choice -- Passing by -- The awakening -- A madrigal -- Aubade -- Preparations -- Thomas the rhymer -- Tam Lin -- Sir Patrick Spence -- Edward, Edward -- The wife of Usher's well -- A lyke-wake dirge -- Loving mad Tom -- The vicar of Bray -- Matthew Arnold -- Wystan Hugh Auden -- William Barnes -- Richard Barnfield -- Francis Beaumont -- Sir John Beaumont -- Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Aphra Behn -- Hilaire Belloc -- Sir John Betjeman -- Laurence Binyon -- William Blake -- Edmund Blunden -- Mark Alexander Boyd -- Nicholas Breton -- Robert Bridges -- Emily Bronte -- Lord Brooke, see Fulke Greville -- Rupert Brooke -- William Browne of Tavistock -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Robert Browning -- John Bunyan -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- Lord (George Gordon Noel) Byron -- Thomas Campbell -- Thomas Campion -- Thomas Carew -- Henry Carey -- Lewis Carroll see Charles Dodgson Lutwidge -- George Chapman -- Thomas Chatterton -- Geoffrey Chaucer -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Henry Chettle -- John Clare -- John Cleveland -- Arthur Hugh Clough -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Collins -- William Congreve -- Richard Corbet -- William Cornish -- William Cory -- Abraham Cowley -- William Cowper -- George Crabbe -- Richard Crashaw -- Samuel Daniel -- George Darley -- Sir William Davenant -- John Davidson -- Sir John Davies -- William Henry Davies -- Cecil Day-Lewis -- Walter de la Mare -- Richard Watson Dixon -- Charles Lutwidge (Loewis Carroll) Dodgson -- John Donne -- Earl Dorset see Charles Sackville and Thomas Sackville -- Keith Douglas -- Ernest Dowson."Begins in 1250 and represents the full range of English non-dramatic verse over the next seven centuries"--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Poetry.; English poetry.;
Available copies: 28 / Total copies: 30
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