Michael Palin's first televised travel adventure was screened as part of the BBC series Great Railway Journeys.

'Confessions of a Train Spotter' (1980) saw him travel the length of Britain by train. Setting off from Euston he includes diversions to lines beyond the inter-city network; a trip on the Flying Scotsman; visits to York's railway museum and Edinburgh at Festival time. He crosses the breathtaking Forth Railway Bridge, and after travelling over 785 miles reaches the Kyle of Lochalsh.

Palin's second Great Railway Journey (1994) takes him from the ancient walled city of Londonderry to the most western tip of Ireland. He travels his 'family line' as he attempts to trace his great grandmother who left Ireland for the USA over 150 years ago. His trip through a still war-torn Northern Ireland takes him on to Belfast before heading south to Dublin, the capital of the Irish Republic, and on to Wexford, Waterford, the little village of Buttevant and finally Kerry's Dingle Bay, the most western point of Ireland.

Christmas time in the Harper household is chaotic... to say the least!

'Ding Dong Merrily' Christmas 2002
Entrepreneurial Nick decides to start a Christmas tree business and turns the Harper living room into a forest - much to Ben's horror. More importantly, Janey's back for Christmas but has a BIG announcement... she's pregnant!

'Sixty Feet Under' Christmas 2003
Whilst the Harpers are travelling into London to make a start on their Christmas shopping the tube breaks down leaving them stranded with only their fellow oddball passengers to help pass the time.

'Glad Tidings We Bring' Christmas 2004
Janey arrives home to inform her parents that she is getting married! Christmas is cast aside as Susan revels in the thought of organising the wedding... whilst Ben will be glad to hand over the responsibility of his daughter... but their joy turns to horror as the fiance in question arrives...

'...And I'll Cry If I Want To' Christmas 2005
Christmas at the Harpers will go down with a bang this year as Susan is determined to give grandson Kenzo a third Birthday party that he and the rest of the Harpers will never forget!

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) returns to Perivale in 1883 in an attempt to cure Ace's phobia about the place. He soon discovers that aliens, hiding beneath a Victorian house, are planning to take over and destroy the planet. It is now up to the timelord to defeat their plans and once again save the planet from a deadly fate.

Opening with the funeral of Winston Churchill in January 1965, season nine continues with Nonnatus House entering a bold and innovative era. As the tower blocks multiply, and a new East End rises from the ashes of the old, society becomes more prosperous, but more complex.

Our familiar team of medics and midwives face unexpected challenges as the population shifts, rules change, and old diseases come back to haunt them. Meanwhile, their own experiences are fuelled by love, loss, and doubt - and the very fabric of their lives is jeopardised when Nonnatus itself comes under threat of demolition.

Includes the 90 minute Christmas special:
As Christmas approaches, a bout of influenza sweeps through both Nonnatus House and the Turner family. When Mother Mildred declares that God is calling her to set up a branch house in the Outer Hebrides, it seems an ideal opportunity for the nuns and midwives to convalesce in the bracing Scottish air. As they recover, they will also be able to help the island, where there is a nursing and doctor shortage. Sister Monica Joan associates the Outer Hebrides with St Eustace's White Stag, a symbol of Christ, and is thrilled at the idea of travelling there. However, she soon discovers to her annoyance that she is being left behind with Sister Hilda and Sister Frances. Within a week, Dr Turner, Shelagh, Mother Mildred, Trixie, Sister Julienne, Valerie and Lucille set off on their journey to the Outer Hebrides, where they are to stay in a freezing cold converted church. As the team set about establishing an antenatal clinic and treating the local population, they must battle not only the weather and bleak terrain but also the suspicions of some of the islanders.

The new Doctor has landed...

Introducing Peter Capaldi as the twelfth Doctor, this fantastic new series sees the Doctor and Clara (Jenna Coleman) encounter unimaginable wonders and horrors... The time travellers meet a fleet of Daleks as they attempt to rescue a stranded ship of human survivors, face ranks of Cybermen stalking the Earth, go back in time and join Robin Hood in a fight with killer robots in Sherwood Forest, become bank robbers when they break into the deadliest bank in the cosmos, face a Mummy on the Orient Express, discover a deadly horror dwelling on the Moon; and come to know the last man standing at the end of the universe.

This complete box set contains every explosive episode from Peter Capaldi's debut series in the role and is also packed full of extras including:

• DVD Exclusive: Doctor Who - Deep Breath Cinema panel session
• DVD Exclusive: Audio Commentaries
• Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord
• Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion
• Doctor Who: Earth Conquest (World Tour Documentary)
• Doctor Who Cast interviews
• Doctor Who Behind the Scenes
• Foxes--Don't Stop Me Now (Music video from Mummy on the Orient Express)

Britain, the early ‘80s. At Cachet Windows, the stakes are high and so are the staff.

Vincent Swan, Cachet’s head of sales, excels at selling his favourite product – himself. Martin Lavender has a university degree, which in the world of sales is as much use as an aerated condom. Brian Fitzpatrick is an excellent liar with no principles: he makes a pretty good salesman. And then there’s Carol, Britain’s lousiest receptionist. They are getting filthy rich thanks to uPVC double-glazing, a dirt-cheap alternative to timber.

To you and me, it’s just plastic. To them, it’s white gold.

Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever, and rich, has very little to concern her. When her governess marries advantageously, Emma congratulates herself on her great success as a matchmaker. So, when she meets the pretty, naive, and socially inferior Harriet, Emma is ready to practise her skills again - ignoring warnings of the harm she could cause from friend and neighbour, Mr Knightley.

As she sets about meddling with the affairs of the village of Highbury, Emma carves a trail of confusion, disappointment and disaster that risks Harriet’s happiness, and much to her surprise, her own happiness too.

This fresh, funny, and perceptive adaptation by Sandy Welch, acclaimed writer of North and South, Jane Eyre, and Our Mutual Friend, brings Jane Austen’s comic masterpiece about village life, love, and self awareness to life with a stellar cast. As our heroine embarks on a journey that challenges her naivety and her social preconceptions it leads her to realise that she has become so focused on the lives of others that she has failed to see what’s in front of her own eyes..

It is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home.

As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own.

Season 6 will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before.

The Christmas Special will see the series transported to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Nonnatus House receives an SOS from a tiny mission hospital. Understaffed, underfunded, and with a poor water supply, struggling Hope Clinic is faced with closure. Can our much-loved medics and midwives make a difference to the people whose lives depend upon its work? Far from home and everything familiar, the team are both shaken and exhilarated by the challenges they face - and by the time the mission trip is over, some lives are permanently changed.

All 12 episodes from the first four seasons of the BBC's fast-paced modernised crime drama based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle.

Laptops, mobile phones and the internet are the new tools for crime in a modern London under threat from serial killers, bombings and gang warfare.

Sherlock Holmes, the most brilliant intellect of his generation, has a unique analytical brain unlike anyone else's, and staves off the ever-present threat of boredom by solving crimes, the more intricate and baffling the better. Meanwhile, his friend and flatmate, John Watson, is an army doctor invalided home from the battlefields of Afghanistan.

All six episodes from the third season of the BBC crime drama starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case.

Having apprehended and hospitalised serial killer Paul Spector, the prime suspect in the Belfast Strangler case, Stella and her colleagues face an investigation of their own over their handling of the case.

Complete first series of the forensic crime drama. Amanda Burton stars as pathologist Dr Sam Ryan, a committed forensic specialist whose passion for justice often leads her to conduct her own inquiries outside the lab. In this series, Sam has to determine whether the death of a six-year-old girl was really an accident, and finds herself caught up in an investigation into ritual murder and black magic. Episodes are: 'Buried Lies (Part 1)'; 'Buried Lies (Part 2)'; 'Long Days, Short Nights (Part 1)'; 'Long Days, Short Nights (Part 2)'; 'Darkness Visible (Part 1)'; 'Darkness Visible (Part 2)'; 'Sins of the Fathers (Part 1)'; and 'Sins of the Fathers (Part 2)'.

The complete collection of Alan Bennett's twelve monologues, which tell the bittersweet tales of 'ordinary, uneventful, desperate lives'. Patricia Routledge stars in 'A Lady of Letters', Maggie Smith in 'Bed Among the Lentils', Stephanie Cole in 'Soldiering On', Julie Walters in 'Her Big Chance', Thora Hird in 'A Cream Cracker Under the Settee', Patricia Routledge in 'Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet', Eileen Atkins in 'The Hand of God', David Haig in 'Playing Sandwiches', Julie Walters in 'The Outside Dog', Penelope Wilton in 'Nights in the Gardens of Spain' and Thora Hird in 'Waiting for the Telegram'.

British television satirical comedy based on the novel by Tom Sharpe, about adulterous MP Sir Giles Lynchwood (George Cole) and his harridan of a wife, Maud (Geraldine James). Despising the ancient country pile he calls home, Rising Gorge, Lynchwood concocts a plan to have a bypass built straight through it, enabling him to collect large sums of money in compensation. When Maud hears of the plan she decides drastic measures are needed to keep the house; enlisting the help of her mysterious groundsman, Blott (David Suchet), her plan is to divorce Lycnhwood and turn Rising Gorge into a safari park, leaving Lycnhwood and the corrupt motorway officials to counter her any way they can. And, unbeknownst to Maud, in Blott's shady past is a debt he owes to Sir Giles Lynchwood . . .

The major adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies starring Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance

Wolf Hall presents an intimate portrait of Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant consigliere to King Henry VIII, as he manoeuvres the corridors of power at the Tudor court. Directed by BAFTA award-Wwinner Peter Kosminsky, this powerful series follows the complex machinations and back room dealings of Cromwell - a pragmatic and accomplished power broker, from humble beginnings and with an enigmatic past.

Cromwell serves king and country while navigating deadly political intrigue, the King's tempestuous relationship with Anne Boleyn and the religious upheavals of the Protestant reformation.

The original Michael Palin adventure. A global journey against the clock.

A Venetian refuse barge, a battered taxi in Egypt, a primitive boat across the Persian Gulf, a Chinese steam engine and a container ship across the Date Line... Michael Palin's attempt to circumnavigate the world heralds a phenomenal journey of dhows, diarrhoea, hungry parrots and a world full of surprises.

Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them – the Doctor.

Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time Lord and his best friend must learn what this enigmatic signal means for his own fate and that of the universe.

Also includes:

• A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2010 Christmas Special)
• THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE (2011 Christmas Special)
• THE SNOWMEN (2012 Christmas Special)

The demise of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, did not leave the world empty. A succession of extraordinary creatures has since come and gone, leading to our own ancestors, and yet we know virtually nothing about them. These bizarre beasts were some of the most fascinating creatures ever to have inhabited our planet.

The award-winning team that brought us Walking With Dinosaurs now explores the rise of the mammals. The latest scientific findings, advanced computer graphics and strong natural history stories are combined as we return to the sights and sounds of extinct worlds... this time full of life you hardly knew existed.

Walking With Beasts takes you on a journey through time to distant worlds: from the hottest, wettest climate the earth has ever known to one of the coldest... the Ice Age. See the early forerunners of the whale (walking!), avoid the carnivorous pig the size of a rhino, and pity the horse the size of a cat, eaten by a bird the height of a man!

And we humans are not safe either... mighty saber-toothed cats with teeth the size of carving knives have a taste for our own ancestors!

“Anger and Jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love...” George Eliot

Driven by passion, intelligence and imagination, Maggie Tulliver is a rare free spirit in the convention-bound world of Victorian rural society.

Despite the fierce love between her and her stolid brother Tom, Maggie turns to others for the companionship she craves. Denied the friendship of Philip Wakem, the son of her father’s implacable enemy, she is drawn irresistibly to the handsome Stephen Guest. Torn between love and devotion to her family, she is rejected by Tom and only an act of supreme courage can effect a final but tragic reconciliation.

Drama, romance and tragedy in a story one woman’s struggle for freedom and love.

Every episode from the first four seasons of the Doctor Who spin-off series set in Cardiff. Captain Jack is in charge of Torchwood - a disparate crew of investigators, each an expert in his chosen field, searching desperately for alien debris that has fallen to earth. They're beyond the rule of law - hired by the UK government and in a race to find the technology before the UN does, so that they might use it to fight crime here on earth. Season 1 episodes are: 'Everything Changes', 'Day One', 'Ghost Machine', 'Cyberwoman', 'Small Worlds', 'Countrycide', 'Greeks Bearing Gifts', 'They Keep Killing Susie', 'Random Shoes', 'Out Of Time', 'Combat', 'Captain Jack Harkness' and 'End Of Days'. Season 2 episodes are: 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang', 'Sleeper', 'To the Last Man', 'Meat', 'Adam', 'Reset', 'Dead Man Walking', 'A Day in the Death', 'Something Borrowed', 'From Out of the Rain', 'Adrift', 'Fragments' and 'Exit Wounds'. Season 3 episodes are: 'Children of Earth - Day One', 'Children of Earth - Day Two', 'Children of Earth - Day Three', 'Children of Earth - Day Four' and 'Children of Earth - Day Five'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Miracle Day - Rendition', 'Miracle Day - Dead of Night', 'Miracle Day - Escape to LA', 'Miracle Day - The Categories of Life', 'Miracle Day - The Middle Men', 'Miracle Day - Immortal Sins', 'Miracle Day - End of the Road', 'Miracle Day - The Gathering' and 'Miracle Day - Blood Line'.

Another collection of antics from Clarkson, Hammond and James as they put themselves and their vehicles to the test in the toughest conditions for the 'challenge' slot of the BBC motoring series.

Private inspector Frank Hathaway has always worked alone. Only Frank isn't doing so well. He might have a brilliant instinct when it comes to solving crime, but he's also out of shape and low on cash. Frank needs a partner. Frank needs ex-hairdresser and people-person Lu. He just doesn't know it yet.

Frank and Lu eventually join forces and form a highly unlikely and hugely entertaining detecting duo. They quickly discover all is not as peaceful as it seems in this pretty theatre town. Vengeful lovers stalk the streets, the mayor is murdered and a magician's trick fatally misfires.

Frank and Lu must learn to trust each other, especially since their actor-receptionist is far too busy learning his lines. Welcome to the birthplace of the Bard where fact is stranger than fiction and low life criminals get caught up in deliciously high drama.

In this collection, stage and screen legends including Judi Dench, lan Holm, Deborah Kerr, Paul Scofield, Hugh Laurie, Penelope Keith, Joan Collins and more bring to life some of the most entertaining and inventive plays and stories ever written.

Noel Coward is the definitive playwright of the early 20th century, contributing a robust repertoire of brilliant material. Playwright, actor, composer, and irrepressible socialite. Coward charmed high society in both London and New York during his heyday, and his work continues to charm audiences today with its urbane wit, sly humor and distinctive style.

The exceptional productions in this set include many of Coward's best-known works such as Hay Fever, Private Lives and Design for Living, and the bonus features offer historic interviews with Coward plus archive audio recordings of an additional six plays produced for radio.

Put together, this collection is a quintessential part of any theatre lover's library.

Two classic Doctor Who adventures.

Includes Time Flight in wich the Doctor plans a trip back to the year 1851 to visit the Great Exhibition in London but he and his friends end up in Terminal One at Heathrow Airport in the present day.

Arc Of Infinity finds the Doctor coming under attack and the Tardis are recalled to Gallifrey.

Under the streets of London is a strange world inhabited by monsters and saints, muderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet.

Richard, a quiet London businessman, is pitchforked into this world when he rescues a young girl he finds bleeding on a pavement.

He discovers that Neverwhere is a dark and thrilling mixture of metaphor, history, humour and high adventure.

Get lost under the London streets with this six-part fantasy adventure written for television by the prolific fantasy author Neil Gaiman.