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The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human
nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to
create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is
on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or
class but the different people and classes that now reside in a
dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that
threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost
wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for
the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two
classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers'
and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep
underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The
Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last
remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the
strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in
their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the
cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to
their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total
control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in
unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the
story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.
Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their
affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out
over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped
the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size
disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and
highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She
lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The
Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes
Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory.
Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she
studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an
artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants.
One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally
reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one
else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second
is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to
avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive
Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ...
until someone special intervenes.
All 42 episodes from series 1-6 of the BBC Scotland comedy about
two Scottish pensioners, Jack and Victor (Greg Hemphill and Ford
Kernan), who love to prove that old age doesn't stop them from
being rascals. Episodes are: 'Flittin'', 'Faimly', 'Cauld',
'Courtin'', 'Waddin'', 'Scones', 'Gairden', 'Wummin', 'Doacters',
'Brief', 'Tappin'', 'Scran', 'Shooglies', 'Buntin'', 'Dug',
'Hoaliday', 'Swottin'', 'Cairds', 'Big Yin', 'Oot', 'Aff', 'Kill
Wullie', 'Wireless', 'Dial-a-Bus', 'Ring', 'Hatch', 'Who's the
Daddy?', 'Drama', 'Fresh Lick', 'Smoke On the Water', 'Hard Nuts',
'All the Best', 'Saucy', 'Hot Seat', 'Fly Society', 'Lights Out',
'Seconds Out', 'Hyper', 'Recipe' and 'One in One Out'. Also
includes the Christmas and Hogmanay specials: 'Plum Number' and
'Hootenanny'.
Claire and Dorotea are best friends and beautiful women. Their
affable rivalry turns serious in a game that has been played out
over two hundred thousand years. It's a competition that has shaped
the very course of human culture, and created a penis of a size
disproportionate to its function. Claire is well educated and
highly intelligent. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She
lectures in anthropology. Studying for her PhD, her thesis is The
Role of the Clitoris in the Evolution of Love. She quotes
Shakespeare and feminist interpretations of Darwinian theory.
Dorotea is an independent, professional photographer. Although she
studied the same things with Claire in high school, she's now an
artist, not a scientist and she has two things that Claire wants.
One is a photo album, the existence of which she only accidentally
reveals to Claire. It is locked and hidden in a darkroom. No one
else has ever seen it. Inside are photos like no other. The second
is something Dorotea will take to the other side of the planet to
avoid losing. But when she gets there, the same forces that drive
Claire will nearly kill her and make her lose what she's found ...
until someone special intervenes.
The Family Caught is a mesmeric expose of what is normally hidden
from public scrutiny: what happens when a family self-destructs and
ends up in the Family Court. Although a piece of fiction, this
story of three children's experiences of separation, divorce and
the dreadful after-effects has been played out many times in real
life. It is a confronting story and not for the faint hearted. It
follows the lives of first the parents and then the children as
their worlds fall apart. How do children cope during separation?
What do their parents do about it? What do the authorities do about
it? There is laughter, there are tears, there are little heroes who
don't deserve the traumas they are put through but who manage to
cope anyway. If you like courtroom drama, if you like to see a
family in microcosm, if you like to see the struggles of ordinary
people for justice, then this book will remain on your mind for
years after reading it.
The Wanderer was written to show the different sides of human
nature when society breaks down. It also shows man's persistence to
create different classes and form segregation, even when mankind is
on the brink of extinction. This is the story of not one person or
class but the different people and classes that now reside in a
dying world, drawn together to fight against a tyranny that
threatens their very existence. After a nuclear war that almost
wiped all life from the planet, one country remained habitable for
the last remaining life on Earth, were humans are placed into two
classes, those that are privileged are known as 'Vault Dwellers'
and are given the opportunity to live in the city sized vaults deep
underground were life continues as it did before the holocaust. The
Uplanders are those that were deemed unworthy of Earth's last
remaining haven and left to walk the scorched earth were only the
strong survive. Two people now hold the fate of the Uplanders in
their hands, one fights to create a single society and bring the
cursed down into the vaults and the other fights to leave them to
their fate and through his quenchless thirst for power gain total
control the vaults. It is a battle that will bring together in
unison every class to fight for mans right to exist. This is the
story of that battle, this is the story of 'The Wanderer'.
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Chewin' the Fat (DVD)
Ford Kiernan, Greg Hemphill, Karen Dunbar, Paul Riley, Mark Cox; Contributions by …
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BBC Scotland sketch comedy series introduces a cast of motley
Caledonians. Originally a radio programme, Chewin' The Fat was the
springboard from which its creators, Ford Kiernan and Greg
Hemphill, launched Jack and Victor - the central characters of
subsequent spinoff, 'Still Game'. Alongside the peripatetic
pensioners, the programme also featured such varied favourites as;
Betty The Auld Slapper who sat, open legged, retelling her
invariably pornographic wartime remembrances, Ballistic Bob, to
whom the most perfunctory task provided potential for unfettered
rage and Eric The Activist who favoured doing unto animal abusers
as they would do unto animals like pouring salt on a man salting
snails then taking flight shouting his catchphrase, 'c'mon the
slugs.'
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