Stephen Fry
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.
6) Wagner & me
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer, but can he salvage Richard Wagner's music from its dark associations with anti-Semitism and Hitler? Fry's quest begins in southern Germany where he is granted unique access to Bayreuth's legendary annual Wagner festival. In Switzerland he discovers the origins of Wagner's masterpiece "The Ring." In Bavaria he marvels at the fairytale castle inspired by Wagner's...
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's the most dominant food in the world. How has sugar infiltrated our diet and culture? What effect does it have on our minds and bodies? THAT SUGAR FILM is one man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights...
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A fool and his money. In the 1930s, Adam Fenwick-Symes (Stephen Campbell Moore) is part of the English idle class, wanting to marry the flighty Nina Blount (Emily Mortimer). He's a novelist with a one hundred-pound advance for a manuscript confiscated by English customs. He spends the next several years trying to get money and to set a wedding date. He trades in gossip, wins money on wagers, then gives it to a drunken Major (Jim Broadbent), who suggested...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
M.C. ESCHER: JOURNEY TO INFINITY is the story of world famous Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher (1898-1972). Equal parts history, psychology, and psychedelia, Robin Lutz’s entertaining, eye-opening portrait gives us the man through his own words and images: diary musings, excerpts from lectures, correspondence and more are voiced by British actor Stephen Fry, while Escher’s woodcuts, lithographs, and other print works appear in both original and...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The deliciously scandalous story of Scotty Bowers, a handsome ex-Marine who landed in Hollywood after World War II and became confidante, aide-de-camp and lover to many of Hollywood’s greatest stars. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Scotty ran a gas station in the shadow of the studio lots where he would connect his friends with actors and actresses who had to hide their true sexual identities for fear of police raids at gay bars, societal shunning and...
Publisher
Distributed by New Video Group
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Intent on escaping the clutches of his indomitable Aunt Agatha and the perpetual threat of wedlock, Bertie once again flees his native England for New York accompanied, as ever, by the unflappable Jeeves. Yet even the waters of the Atlantic cannot keep the witless Wooster safe, and he is soon up to his ears in a frightful tangle of wayward cousins, stolen babies, unwanted engagements and even -- heaven forbid -- his domineering aunt.
15) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The lives and interactions among a group of upper class and their servants at a weekend hunting party in the English country, and a mysterious murder that occurs among them.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
British comedian legend Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine travel from the Amazon's steamy jungles to New Zealand's icy mountain tops seeking some of the most remarkable and endangered creatures of Earth. Entertaining and informative with a unique insight into the fascinating world that we are in danger of losing.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
2018 Odyssey Honor
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
Roald Dahl meets Elf in this warmhearted Christmas caper about the boy who would one day be Santa Claus, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Wiig, Maggie Smith and Henry Lawfull!
Eleven-year-old Nikolas—nicknamed "Christmas"—has received only one toy...
2018 ALSC Notable Children’s Recording
Roald Dahl meets Elf in this warmhearted Christmas caper about the boy who would one day be Santa Claus, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library.
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristen Wiig, Maggie Smith and Henry Lawfull!
Eleven-year-old Nikolas—nicknamed "Christmas"—has received only one toy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Basil Hallward's is infatuated and impressed by Englishman Dorian Gray's beauty, and therefore Dorian has been the subject of most of Hallward's oil paintings. While Dorian is posing for a full-length portrait, he meets Lord Henry Wotton, a materialistic man who shares his hedonistic world view, stating that beauty is the only truly important thing in life. Dorian is persuaded to this point and through a course of events sells his soul so that his...
Author
Publisher
HarperFestival
Language
English
Description
Paddington Bear becomes a celebrity when he takes portraits of the Brown family with a very old camera. Thanks to the unique results, a local shop puts the photos on display. And that's just the first adventure this extraordinary bear finds himself in. From wallpapering to mystery-solving, Paddington does it all with the sense of wonder and playful charm that readers have come to love.
First published in 1959, More about Paddington is the second novel...