Mike Vardy directs this big screen adaptation of the adventures of working class hero Joe Lampton (Kenneth Haigh). When Joe gets to know pharmaceutical tycoon Lord Ackerman (Harry Andrews) and his wife Alex (Nanette Newman), it results in an unexpected job offer. However, things aren't all plain sailing. While managing one of Ackerman's companies, Joe discovers that a former member of staff committed suicide for his part in producing a drug that proved harmful to women. How will Ackerman react when Joe tells him the news?

Inspired by the wonderful works of David Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs and Armistead Maupin, a new Los Angeles author, who did not start writing until his late 40's, has come out with a collection of eight memoirs/essays and one short poem on a wide variety of topics. The title story humorously recounts surviving his first year in LA when as a young dancer he made questionable choices while living a Bohemian lifestyle with as many as eight other people in a one bedroom apartment, in an apartment complex filled with drag queens, male hustlers, drug dealers, junkies and other marginal characters. Other topics include his accounts of dancing in Michael Jackson's Beat It music video, teaching Pilates to Joan Collins and other celebrities in the mid-1980's and the challenges of working as a physical therapist at a county hospital in a large urban setting. The final memoir, Death in Ft. Lauderdale, is uniquely told through a series of personal messages on Facebook and tells what happened on an ill-fated and tragic trip in 1974 when, as a junior in high school, he went to Florida on spring break with three of his best friends. This collection is also available as an e-book on Amazon.com.

In 1714 Parliament offer a £20,000 prize for anyone who can provide an accurate means of measuring longitude at sea. John Harrison (Michael Gambon) flies in the face of popular opinion by saying that the stars do not provide the answer, and provides his own solution with the invention of a mechanical clock. However, it takes Harrison forty years to prove his theory, and he is eventually forgotten in the mists of time. Centuries later, Robert Gould (Jeremy Irons) attempts to restore Harrison's reputation by tracking down and repairing the four clocks he originally constructed.