The official script for the box-office smash movie, featuring every ruddy word (and stage direction) of Alan’s seamless transformation from natural-born broadcaster into fully fledged and occasionally fully dressed hostage negotiator. Contains deleted scenes and an exclusive Foreword by Steve Coogan.With a television career behind him and a much-coveted breakfast slot in his spiritual home, regional digital radio, there was only one place left for Alan Partridge to turn: Hollywood!...

All three series of the BBC Radio spoof boys' magazine - plus Winter and Christmas SpecialsNominated for a British Comedy Award for Best Radio Comedy, The Harpoon is a nostalgic, spiffing spoof of adventure story papers for boys from yesteryear - but on the wireless. In the style of publications such as the Boys' Own Paper - but with its tongue firmly in its cheek - it features a veritable feast of thrilling serials, 'How-Tos', readers' letters an...

Steve Coogan is Alan Partridge, the crass chat show host who has a spectacular fall from grace in these 3 BBC TV episodes. 'Knowing me, Knowing Yule' (29 December 1995) In a special Christmas edition of his television chat show, the irrespressible Alan bids the nation good tidings from 'an exact replica reproduction' of the interior of his house - and counts the BBC's Chief Commissioning Editor amongst his guests. However, his attempts to secure a second series go far from well... in fact ...

Victor Hugo has long been hailed as France's premiere novelist and the two books in this volume, "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" and "Les Misérables," are his two crowning achievements. Published in 1831 and 1862 respectively, these two novels solidified Hugo's standing as the country's leading literary light and the books would later inspire countless adaptations; for both the stage and screen.We begin with "Hunchback" (originally titled "Notre-Dame de Paris"). This Gothic novel tel...

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project had never been published before acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined them to compose his Academy Award-nominated documentary.“Thrilling…. A portrait of one man’s confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, ‘devastated my universe.’” ...

The Future, America is a irradiated wasteland where, on its East Coast, lies Mega City - one vast, violent metropolis whose citizens live in perpetual fear. Imposing order on this urban chaos are the Judges - judge, jury and executioners rolled into one.Foremost among them is Dredd who is given a mission to road-rest a rookie Judge - the powerful psychic Cassandra Anderson.In the course of this training day, the two Judges head for a seemingly routine homicide in the notorious Peac...

Early 1900s Anglo-Saxon society redirects Angela's life. Minimally daunted by hardship, a fiery character based on a real Texas woman faces obstacles with gritty conviction while struggling to reach a near impossible dream on the land of her murdered father. A huge silver wolf's unconditional love manifests and rules him to battle until bloody during harrowing encounters when the devoted alpha defends her land, avenges his family, saves her, her home, and the granddaughter for whom Angela ...

Paul Newland is a lecturer in film studies in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University.

Matron, Elizabeth Waverly, and her care home helper, Norman Christie, take great delight in abusing residents at an old-age peoples home. Norman in particular loves his bit of sport on bath nights; he likes dunking their heads and watching them choke. Unfortunately for them, the rising death count hasn't gone unnoticed.After a police investigation they are arrested, found guilty and sentenced to eleven years in prison.On their release in the year 2000 the future looks grim. T...

This is a musical stage-play (NOT screenplay) with one set, six-characters & a TV.Characters: BOBBI - F, 30KEN - M, 30BRAD - M, 35JANET - F, 25AGENT PAPERCLIP - M, 50AGENT MOCKINGBIRD - M, 40A woman, at the urgings of her television & two Illuminati-agents, breaks up with her boyfriend.An Orwellian dystopia; desert-rock sci-fi GuignolDefinitely adult-themed material & some language; set, costumes & makeup are minimalist; tw...

Many will assume this is just another retelling of the "Dracula" horror myth... but Vlad's story is true. Hitler's Holocaust killed approximately 10% of Germany's people, while some estimates claim that Vlad exterminated more than 20% of his fellow Wallachians. A gruesome genre-bender with perverse humor, based on 15th-century history. Warning: graphic transgressive violence.