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“mike leigh”

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  • The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert ...
    Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas.From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Peterloo

    The Story of the Manchester Massacre

    by Jacqueline Riding ...
    The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority.'Excellent' Zadie Smith'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton'A superb account of one of the defining moments in modern British history' Tristram Hunt'Peterloo is one of the greatest scandals of British political history... Riding tells this tragic story with ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Grief

    by Mike Leigh ...
    War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?'A ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

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    Abigail’s Party & Too Much of a Good Thing

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama Productions

    by Mike Leigh ...
    Narrated by Lesley Manville, Philip Davis, Brenda Blethyn, John Salthouse, Eric Allan, Teresa Streatfield, Thelma Whitely ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Brenda Blethyn, Lesley Manville and Phil Davis star in this special Mike Leigh collection, featuring the iconic hit Abigail’s Party and a banned play from the BBC archivesOne of Britain's most prolific and influential writers, Mike Leigh has directed some of the best British films of the last 50 years, including Life is Sweet, Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake. He has written a plethora of plays for ... Read more

    $19.11 USD

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  • Court Number One

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  • Anti-Social

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  • Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders

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