Collection of made-for-TV comedy dramas adapted from David Walliams' children's books. In 'The Boy in the Dress' (2014), despite being the star striker on his school's football team, 12-year-old Dennis Sims (Billy Kennedy) feels out of place at school and still misses the mother who left left him and his brother John (Oliver Barry-Brook) after divorcing their dad (Steve Speirs). When aspiring fashion designer and fellow classmate Lisa (Temi Orelaja) recruits him to model a dress for her, Dennis decides to wear it to school and adopts the guise of a French girl named Denise but is quickly found out and expelled by his strict head teacher.

But with the school's football team on a downward spiral without him, Dennis and Lisa try to come up with a creative scheme to get him back in school and back on the team. In 'Mr Stink' (2012), Hugh Bonneville stars as the eponymous tramp who reunites a young girl's family. After discovering Mr Stink and his dog Duchess in a nearby park, friendless 12-year-old Chloe (Nell Tiger Free) invites him to stay in her family's garden shed.

Initially horrified by the sight and smell of their new 'guest', Chloe's dysfunctional mum (Sheridan Smith) and dad (Johnny Vegas) finally relent. As news of his arrival does the rounds and his celebrity spreads, Mr Stink finds himself embarking on a journey that takes him to 10 Downing Street, before finally bringing Chloe's family together again in time for Christmas. In 'Gangsta Granny' (2013), Ben (Reece Buttery) dreads staying at his gran (Julia McKenzie)'s house when his mum and dad drop him off, expecting the usual boring games of scrabble and knitting.

But on his latest visit, his gran reveals a fascinating secret - that she was once a renowned jewel thief known as the 'Black Cat' - and shatters Ben's image of his boring old relative. Together they set out on a whirlwind adventure to pull off the one robbery that always eluded her, breaking into the Tower of London and stealing the crown jewels.

Surreal comedy starring award-winning British comedian, author and TV presenter Harry Hill. Featuring machine gun-toting chickens and a terminally ill hamster, the film follows Harry and his Nan (Julie Walters) as they travel to Blackpool while being pursued by a mentally unstable veterinarian (Simon Bird). While on the journey, the pair are met with a whole host of other weird and wonderful characters including Harry's long-lost twin Otto (Matt Lucas) and Michelle (Sheridan Smith), an underwater shell person.

One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical interest, yet his complex personality eludes full understanding. This new edition of Moshe Lewin's classic political biography, including an afterword by the author, suggests new approaches for studying the Marxist visionary and founder of the Soviet state. Lenin's Last Struggle offers invaluable insights into the rise of the Bolshevik party and the Soviet Union, a saga complicated by complex strategic battles among the leaders of Lenin's generation: leaders whose names are universally known, but whose personalities and motivations are even now not sufficiently understood.

Moshe Lewin was a collective farm worker in the USSR and a soldier in the Soviet army. He later became director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, a fellow of the Kennan Institute, a senior fellow of Columbia University's Russian Institute, and is now emeritus professor of history at The University of Pennsylvania.

National treasure Sheridan Smith returns to the role of Lucie Miller in these four new adventures with the Eighth Doctor! 1. The Dalek Trap by Nicholas Briggs. The thing about black holes is, they’re big and they’re black and they’re deadly, and you’d have to be mad to go anywhere near them. Because anything that falls inside a black hole ends up crushed in the singularity. Unfortunately, the Doctor just went mad, or so it seems, and flew his TARDIS beyond a black hole’s event horizon, causing him and his companion Lucie Miller to end up marooned on a planetoid just inside the event horizon. Along with a Dalek saucer… and something else. Because this is no ordinary black hole… This is the Cradle of the Darkness. 2. The Revolution Game by Alice Cavender. It’s Lucie’s birthday, and her birthday treat awaits. But whatever she’s expecting, it’s not what she’s getting on the colony world of Castus Sigma in the year 3025: ringside seats for the interplanetary Retro Roller Derby – sponsored by Heliacorp, “turning sunlight into gold”! It’s more than just a game, though. For the competitors, it’s a matter of life or death – a New Life with Heliacorp, or a living death on Castus Sigma. Or, on this fateful day, a very actual death. Because there are strange creatures living out on the plain, beyond the colony. Creatures with every reason to want to sabotage the games. Creatures with a grudge. 3. The House on the Edge of Chaos by Eddie Robson. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Lucie to a vast house on the planet known as Horton’s Orb. The only house on Horton’s Orb, in fact. Outside its outsized windows there’s nothing. No land. No sea. No sky. No life. Just an endless expanse of static. Inside the house, there’s an upstairs and a downstairs – servants below, gentlefolk from the finest of the house’s families above. Alas, there are altogether too few eligible ladies on the upper floors these days. Meaning there’s a vacancy for Miss Lucie Miller, single and unattached…Outside the house, the static howls on. Except now, the static wants to get in. 4. Island of the Fendahl by Alan Barnes. The Fendahl is the death of evolution, the horror that lies in wait at the far end of the food chain. The Fendahl is death itself. And the Fendahl is dead. The Doctor destroyed it many years ago, in another incarnation, when he encountered it in a place called Fetchborough. But if the Fendahl is dead… how can it live again, on the remote island of Fandor? CAST: Paul McGann (The Doctor), Sheridan Smith (Lucie Miller), Matt Lloyd Davies (Jik Gelliska), Amanda Hurwitz (Raz Kalisto), Jonathan Keeble (Clegg), Madeline Duggan (Sash), Tom Alexander (George), Alicia Ambrose-Bayly (Tallulah / Alana Kelly), Carla Mendonca (Evangeline Horton), Rupert Vansittart (Darius Horton), Emily Woodward (Frances Horton), Joe Jameson (Berrigan Horton), Carlyss Peer (Diane Howard), Atilla Akinci (Dieter Fendelman), Paul Panting (Freddie), Lauren Cornelius (Maxine Mitchell), Bethan Dixon Bate (Landlady) and Nicholas Briggs (The Daleks). Other parts played by members of the cast.

All 32 episodes of the BBC crime drama starring Alan Davies as scruffy amateur detective and master of illusion Jonathan Creek. Series 1 episodes are: 'The Wrestler's Tomb', 'Jack in the Box', 'The Reconstituted Corpse', 'No Trace of Tracy' and 'The House of Monkeys'. Series 2 episodes are: 'Danse Macabre', 'Time Waits for Norman', 'The Scented Room', 'The Problem at Gallows Gate: Part 1', 'The Problem at Gallows Gate: Part 2' and 'Mother Redcap'. Series 3 episodes are: 'The Curious Tale of Mr. Spearfish', 'The Eyes of Tiresias', 'The Omega Man', 'Ghosts Forge', 'Miracle in Crooked Lane' and 'The Three Gamblers'. Series 4 episodes are: 'The Coonskin Cap', 'Angel Hair', 'The Tailor's Dummy', 'The Seer of the Sands', 'The Chequered Box' and 'Gorgons Wood'. Series 5 episodes are: 'The Letters of Septimus Noone', 'The Sinner and the Sandman' and 'The Curse of the Bronze Lamp'. The collection also includes the three Christmas specials 'Black Canary', 'Satan's Chimney' and 'Daemons' Roost' as well as the three specials 'The Grinning Man', 'The Judas Tree' and 'The Clue of the Savant's Thumb'.

Join a penniless bunch of friends for their misadventures in the northern town of Runcorn, as they experience dodgy relationships, nightmare relatives and employment disasters.

This box set contains all six seasons of the popular show.

Comedy drama starring Sheridan Smith, Kate Nash and Oona Chaplin. Socially awkward and unlucky in love, Sam (Smith)'s only relief from her lonely life is her visit to the nearby clubs at the weekend with her friends Chanel (Jaime Winstone), Saskia (Sarah Hoare) and Paige (Riann Steele). One night, Sam bumps into her old college friend Michelle (Nash) who is home from her successful life in Paris with her beautiful and glamorous friend Jess (Chaplin). Feeling intimidated by their presence, Sam starts spinning a web of lies to make herself appear less of a loser, but with one lie leading onto another will she be able to survive the night while retaining some semblance of her own identity?

Five-part drama series based on the life of Charmian Biggs, the wife of criminal Ronnie Biggs who played a significant part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Charmian (Sheridan Smith) first encounters Ronnie (Daniel Mays) on a train and they soon fall in love. When she becomes pregnant the two marry but Ronnie's involvement in the robbery results in his imprisonment. He escapes from jail less than two years later and, wanting to keep her family together, Charmian goes to Paris with their children to meet up with Ronnie. They flee to Australia but are unable to evade the constant threat of capture...

Alan Davies returns as the lateral thinking sleuth, this time investigating the disappearance of a young woman after spending the night in 'The Nightmare Room' of an old Gothic house. For 70 years, 'Metropolis' has guarded the secret of how a Harvard geneticist, Eli Mencken (Patrick Poletti), vanished after spending the night in an attic room where the malevolent spirit of a madman is said to dwell. Now, when magician Lance Gessler (Nicholas Boulton)'s beautiful young assistant Elodie (Jenna Harrison) goes missing after sheltering there from a storm, Jonathan Creek, alongside the ever sceptical Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith), sets out to solve the mystery.

Complete sixth series of the BBC comedy about the five mismatched friends and their drunken adventures in Runcorn. In this series, Janet faces a dilemma about joining a cruise ship as a singer, Donna's career gets worse and worse, while Gaz ends up stealing Janet's baby. Episodes are: 'Speedycruise!'; 'Goblins'; 'Mummy Cupboard'; 'Cauliflower'; 'Drunk'; 'Croppity Crop'; 'Finger Sniffing'; 'War, Hurrgh'; 'Closing Time'; and 'When Janet Killed Jonny'.

Sheridan Smith and Paul Nicholls star in this adaptation of Lisa Lynch's battle with cancer. After being diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer at the age of 28 Lisa Lynch (Smith) was abruptly forced to re-evaluate her life to face the disease. The journalist turned to her computer and started a blog to share the life-altering experiences and frustations she faced, following her diagnosis, with the world. The story charts the ups and downs of her personal battle while she receives support from her devoted husband Pete (Nicholls) and her wider family and friends.

All 25 episodes from the British sitcom written by and starring Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash. In the first series, we are introduced to the domestic conflicts of the Liverpudlian Royle clan, with Aherne as Denise, daughter of Jim (Ricky Tomlinson) and Barbara (Sue Johnston), and soon-to-be-wed-to boyfriend, Dave (Cash). In the second series, Denise has now married Dave, but the Royle family sofa is no less crowded for that. The third series sees the addition of Denise and Dave's first child which brings its share of new trials and tribulations to the semi-inert world of now-grandparents, Jim and Barbara. The 1999 and 2000 Christmas specials are also included as well as the five one-off episodes: 'The Queen of Sheba', 'The New Sofa', 'The Golden Egg Cup', 'Joe's Crackers' and 'Barbara's Old Ring'.

Hugh Bonneville stars as the eponymous tramp who reunites a young girl's family in this TV adaptation of David Walliams' comic festive tale. After discovering Mr Stink and his dog Duchess in a nearby park, friendless 12-year-old Chloe (Nell Tiger Free) invites him to stay in her family's garden shed. Initially horrified by the sight and smell of their new 'guest', Chloe's dysfunctional mum (Sheridan Smith) and dad (Johnny Vegas) finally relent. As news of his arrival does the rounds and his celebrity spreads, Mr Stink finds himself embarking on a journey that takes him to 10 Downing Street, before finally bringing Chloe's family together again in time for Christmas.

He belonged to the solemn race of men whose lives unfold too quickly to their close.?Jean Cocteau
"The Devil in the Flesh," one of the finest, most delicate love stories ever written, is set in Paris during the last year of the First World War. The narrator, a boy of sixteen, tells of his love affair with Martha Lacombe, a young woman whose soldier husband is away at the front. The liaison soon becomes a scadal and their friends, horrified and incredulous, refuse to accept what is happening - even when the affair reaches its tragic climax.
In the film "Le Diable au Corps" (with Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle), Claude Autant-Lara recreated this story of the First World War with nostalgic tenderness. His sensitive dramatization treats the affair with such delicacy that many critics consider the love scenes to be among the most beautiful ever photographed. The film won the Grand Prix and the International Critics Prize.
Raymond Radiguet wrote "The Devil in the Flesh" between the ages of sixteen and eighteen, about his own adolescent love affair with an older woman. He died from typhoid fever at the age of twenty. His only other novel is "Comte d'Orgel," also available from Marion Boyars Publishers.
..".a triumph of the poetic intelligence: a masterpiece..."?"New Statesman"

Double bill of films based on the children's books by David Walliams. In 'Mr Stink' (2012), Hugh Bonneville stars as the eponymous tramp who reunites a young girl's family in this TV adaptation of David Walliams' comic festive tale. After discovering Mr Stink and his dog Duchess in a nearby park, friendless 12-year-old Chloe (Nell Tiger Free) invites him to stay in her family's garden shed. Initially horrified by the sight and smell of their new 'guest', Chloe's dysfunctional mum (Sheridan Smith) and dad (Johnny Vegas) finally relent. As news of his arrival does the rounds and his celebrity spreads, Mr Stink finds himself embarking on a journey that takes him to 10 Downing Street, before finally bringing Chloe's family together again in time for Christmas. In 'Gangsta Granny' (2013), Ben (Reece Buttery) dreads staying at his gran (Julia McKenzie)'s house when his mum and dad drop him off, expecting the usual boring games of scrabble and knitting. But on his latest visit, his gran reveals a fascinating secret - that she was once a renowned jewel thief known as the 'Black Cat' - and shatters Ben's image of his boring old relative. Together they set out on a whirlwind adventure to pull off the one robbery that always eluded her, breaking into the Tower of London and stealing the crown jewels.

At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished with a major original introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism. Sartre's formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called 'a totalisation without a totaliser'. But, at the same time, his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity.

BBC comedy anthology series written by and starring 'League of Gentlemen' creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Each episode is a stand-alone comedy set behind the doors of a different house number nine on a British street. The various characters explored include those trying to sleep on a French overnight sleeper train, staff at a volunteer call centre and the holders of a seance in a Victorian villa. Guest stars on the show include Jack Whitehall, Mark Benton, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Sheridan Smith, Alison Steadman, Claire Skinner, Paul Kaye and David Warner. The episodes are: 'La Couchette', 'The 12 Days of Christine', 'The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge', 'Cold Comfort', 'Nana's Party' and 'Seance Time'.

The last remaining residents of a run-down London tower block find themselves targeted by a deadly sniper, in this tense British thriller written by James Moran. When they witness the brutal murder of a youth in their block, Becky (Sheridan Smith) and the other remaining residents on the 12th floor keep quiet, fearing retribution. One year later, and with the police investigation stalled, they awake one morning to find all communications to the outside world cut. Panic quickly spreads through the group when they begin to be picked off by an unknown sniper with a high-tech rifle, who prevents anyone from escaping the building, and shoots anything that moves. As the situation becomes ever more desperate, the group join together to try and find a way out. But with booby traps at every exit, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone will make it out alive.