Joanna Lumley
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young fund manager named Millie quits her job and ends a longterm relationship to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The competition between Millie and Max gradually...
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A sparkling celebration of our much-loved Queen Elizabeth II for her Platinum Jubilee including special writings and illuminating insights around key moments in her 70-year reign, introduced and edited by her biggest fan Joanna Lumley. In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrates seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She is Britain's longest reigning monarch and the very first to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. A Queen For All Seasons, edited...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
During her duties as a lady's companion, Emily meets her employer's nephew, Lord James Walderhurst. Accepting his marriage proposal, Emily finds solace in the company of Walderhurst's nephew and his glamorous wife, after Lord James leaves to rejoin his regiment. Emily, alone with the Osborns, increasingly comes under their control. She begins to fear for her life.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a magical world where all children are given a gift at birth by a fairy godmother, Ella is gifted with obedience. Unable to refuse any command, she is often taken advantage of. So begins her quest to free herself. Based on Gail Carson Levine's book.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of retirement, a judgmental middle-class snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.
14) Dr. Willoughby
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows the cast and crew of a British soap opera show as they interact with each other on and off-screen.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Joanna Lumley always dreamed of one day seeing the mighty Nile. This trip of a lifetime marks a dream come true. Traveling by fishing boat, ferry, cruise ship, plane, train, car, and Zapcat, Joanna follows the world's longest river from mouth to source. The 4,000-mile journey takes her from the city of Alexandria to the verdant forests of Rwanda, from the heat of the Sudanese desert to the highlands of Ethiopia, through multiple countries and across...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
19) Marple: Series 5
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Miss Marple solves mysteries set against a rich background of grand English estates, gorgeous scenery, and post-WWII period detail.
20) The Cazalets
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Three generations of the Gazalet family in the shadows of WWII.