Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.84
Review Wainwright's Coast To Coast Walk / Striding Edge Ltd.:
Release date: 1995-04-03
Run time: 65 min.
Price: £12.99
Review The Essential Wainwright / Striding Edge Ltd.:
Release date: 1995-02-06
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.95
Review The Castles Of Scotland - Vol. 4 - Thirlestane / Fyvie / The Castles of Scotland:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Pole To Pole With Michael Palin [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PH3SD81GL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Clem Vallance
- Roger Mills
- Michael Palin
Run time: 386 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.99
Review Pole To Pole With Michael Palin [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:Michael Palin, star of Monty Python's Flying Circus and A Fish Called Wanda, is in a comic race against time to get from the North Pole to the South Pole. Palin balks at nothing, tries just about anything and always finds time for a spot of tea. En route Palin stars in a crayfish documentary in Novgorod, attends a baby-rolling ceremony at a Cypriot wedding, gets stuck in a Nile traffic jam, buys chicken in Wadi Halfa, goes camel shopping in Khartoum and is prescribed tree bark by a Mpulugu witch doctor to get rid of his evil shadow. Even when things go according to plan, Palin travels in unusual ways-by dogsled on Spitsbergen, barge down the Dnieper, train roof across the Nubian desert, van through the Sudan, hot-air balloon over Kenya and down Lake Tanganyika on the "African Queen". With curiosity, courage, and his standard aplomb, Palin plunges himself into the local cultures, beating himself with birch branches in a Finnish sauna and wallowing in mud in an Odessa sanatorium. Reminiscent of his Around the World in 80 Days, Palin once again brings some of the world's most inaccessible cities right into your home. An armchair traveller's delight, this collectors' edition of Pole to Pole is ideal for anyone interested in the funny world we live in. -Tara Chace, Amazon. com.
Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.77
Review Wainwright's Lakeland / Striding Edge Ltd.:
![Review John Williams Productions / The Munro Show 2 [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/415ZJ5A4N3L._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2002-08-01
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £9.99
Review The Munro Show 2 [1993] / John Williams Productions:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Around The World In 80 Days [1989]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518JCXZQA1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Alan Whicker
- Terry Gilliam
- Basil Pao
- Clem Vallance
- Michael Palin
- Terry Jones
- Roger Mills
Run time: 335 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.72
Review Around The World In 80 Days [1989] / 2 Entertain Video:Great ideas seem inevitable once they have been successful, and here is one of the very best. In 1873 Jules Verne, wrote Around the World in 80 Days, in which Phineas Fogg attempted to circumnavigate the globe in no more than the titular timespan. In 1989, for this ten-part (eight-hour, 20 minute) BBC documentary, and using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller, Michael Palin attempted to turn the fiction into reality. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke which ensured the series became a television milestone, for despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns, he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the opportunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to travel from Pole to Pole (1992), before taking an epic journey round the Pacific rim for Full Circle (1997). -Gary S. Dalkin In 1989 Michael Palin recreated the famous voyage made in 1873 by Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's epic Around the World in 80 Days. This 10-part (eight-hour) BBC documentary featured Palin and his passepartout using only the modes of transport available to the novelist's intrepid traveller. Hiring Palin was the masterstroke that ensured the series became a television milestone; despite being one of the comedy-surrealists of Monty Python's Flying Circus and the perpetrator of Ripping Yarns, he proved to be the most amiable travelling companion imaginable. [+]His charm and ingenuity, coupled with the race-against-time format and the opportunity to visit at second-hand places most of us will never see, made Around the World in 80 Days an unmissable television event. So much so that Palin soon returned to the travel format in Pole to Pole (1992), Full Circle (1997) and Sahara (2002). -Gary S Dalkin.
Release date: 2000-04-10
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.56
Review Coaster Crazy - The UK's Wildest Roller Coasters / S. Gold & Sons Ltd.:
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £29.99
Review The Munro Show - By Muriel Gray / John Williams Productions:
Release date: 1991-10-07
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £10.84
Review Cycling Through Russia & Estonia [1991] / Cycling Russia:
![Review Reardon Publishing / The Cotswold Way [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51J34Z83MDL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Nicholas Reardon
- Mark Richards
- Alan Tibbitts
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.99
Review The Cotswold Way [1997] / Reardon Publishing:
Actors & Directors
- Holly Morris
- Peter Boyd Maclean
- Rik Lander
- Catey Sexton
- Mark Crowdy
- Andrew Daddo
- Carl Hindmarch
- Nick Corey Right
- Nikki Grosse
- Declan Hughes
RRP: £12.99
Price: £29.95
Review Lonely Planet - The Experience - Vietnam / Ivn Entertainment:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure [1999]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BQ7S0K79L._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1999-11-01
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.95
Review Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure [1999] / 2 Entertain Video:In Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure, our guide follows in Hemingway's footsteps through Europe, Africa, and the United States in an effort to learn more about what made the literary giant tick. Palin's fascination with Ernest Hemingway began when he was growing up reading tales of fishing, hunting, drinking and other adventurous pursuits. His reading gave him the first taste of the wider world, and inspired in him a love of travel that would lead to his journeys such as Pole to Pole and Full Circle. Beginning in the suburbs of Chicago, then heading to Italy, Paris, Pamplona and Cuba, Palin soaks up the atmosphere-and a daiquiri or two-in many of Papa's favourite haunts. He has an obvious affection for his subject, but he remains as irreverent as ever, whether he's trying (and failing) to shoot ducks in a freezing Italian lake or trying (and failing) to get an audience with Fidel Castro in Havana. Although it lacks the "Will he make it?" excitement of the earlier series, the relatively leisurely pace of this journey allows Palin to dig a little deeper into his subject. He has an extraordinary knack for finding fascinating people on his travels, and his unassuming style encourages them to open up in front of the camera. The Hemingway trail offers particularly rich pickings, including a centenarian boxer who sparred with Hemingway and a gathering of portly, bearded Papa lookalikes in a Key West bar. Moving easily from the hilarious (tales of Hemingway sailing sans underwear) to the moving (describing the writer's last days from the room where he died), Palin is the perfect travel companion, and this is his most personal journey yet. -Simon Leake.
![Review Academy Video / London [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TNGVJ0MCL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Patrick Keiller
- Paul Scofield
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £19.99
Review London [1993] / Academy Video:
Release date: 1994-03-14
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Wainwright's North Country / Striding Edge Ltd.:
Release date: 1997-10-19
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £12.99
Review Ian Sampson's Country Walks - Heartbeat Country / Quantum Leap:
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £21.95
Review Francofiles - The Loire Valley / Green Umbrella Productions:
![Review Second Sight Productions / Dry Stone Country - The Tradition Of Dry Stone Walling [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MT4HTNW3L._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2006-10-16
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £15.99
Review Dry Stone Country - The Tradition Of Dry Stone Walling [1997] / Second Sight Productions:
Release date: 2001-01-29
Run time: 222 min.
Price: £19.99
Review Conquistadors / 2 Entertain Video:After previously following the footsteps of Alexander the Great across Asia, in Conquistadors adventurous historian Michael Wood travels to the new world in search of the once-proud cities of the Aztecs and the Incas. The location has changed but the format of this enthralling documentary series remains the same: Wood boldly strikes out across all terrains and in all weathers to retrace the journeys of the men whose greed and lust for conquest changed the course of history. Along the way he provides surviving first-hand narrative accounts from both sides and adds his own vivid on-the-spot commentary. Wood's charming mixture of derring-do and scholarship, combined with his willingness to engage with the local people and ask them to tell their stories too, makes this series as compelling as any of his previous historical explorations. He begins with the first and greatest (or most infamous) of them all: Hernan Cortes. A poor Spanish adventurer with no military training, Cortes somehow led his private army through an alien land and conquered the greatest city of the Aztecs. Wood follows Cortes from the Yucatan peninsular, footslogging over the mountains to Mexico city itself, now unrecognisable as the almost magical lake-bound capital of Montezuma. Lurid tales of blood sacrifice and Spanish plundering abound as Wood goes on to relate the expeditions of Pizzaro against the mighty Incas and the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca. "We have a disease of the heart that can only be cured by gold," Cortes told the first Aztec ambassador he met. "Do you have more gold?" "Yes we do," was the reply that doomed entire civilisations. [+]"It was the end of sacred time," Wood sums it up, "the beginning of profane time. " -Mark Walker.
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £12.95
Review Bygone West Middlesex / Bygone Films:
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Wainwright's Coast To Coast Walk, The Essential Wainwright, The Castles Of Scotland - Vol. 4 - Thirlestane / Fyvie, Pole To Pole With Michael Palin [1992], Wainwright's Lakeland, The Munro Show 2 [1993], Around The World In 80 Days [1989], Coaster Crazy - The UK's Wildest Roller Coasters, The Munro Show - By Muriel Gray, Cycling Through Russia & Estonia [1991], The Cotswold Way [1997], Lonely Planet - The Experience - Vietnam, Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure [1999], London [1993], Wainwright's North Country, Ian Sampson's Country Walks - Heartbeat Country, Francofiles - The Loire Valley, Dry Stone Country - The Tradition Of Dry Stone Walling [1997], Conquistadors, Bygone West MiddlesexTop headlines: U.S. reefs decline, threats on rise: About half of U.S. coral reef ecosystems continue to decline due to multiple threats and are considered to be in "poor" or "fair" condition, the federal government said in a new report Monday. ›21:31, 7.07 Al Gore's Nobel Patrol: A vigilant fan of the former veep keeps watch as the Nobel Committee announces its peace prize. ›15:10, 12.10 Beijing polishes up image, welcomes visitors: In the seven years since the Olympic movement anointed Beijing as host of the 2008 Summer Games, China's capital has undergone a transformation so thoroughgoing that "makeover" doesn't begin to describe the change. ›20:51 Despite conflict, U.S. does business with Iran: U.S. exports to Iran including brassieres, bull semen, cosmetics and possibly even weapons grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office. ›21:22 Report: War powers law should be repealed: Congress should pass legislation to require the president to consult lawmakers before going to war, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former U.S. secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher. ›15:52 Message board: Discuss the strangeness: Ports far too crowded for full enjoyment: A roundup of ports far too crowded for full enjoyment, including Venice, Cabo San Lucas and Seward, Alaska. ›19:08, 7.07 Clift: Why Is Howard Dean So Quiet?: Howard Dean has stayed oddly quiet lately while intraparty squabbling over the Democrats primary calendar escalates. 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