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Saturday Playhouse 930624 The San Rocco Mob

2309828716?profile=originalBased upon actual events, Bruce Stewart 's play tells the story of an English priest who is sent incognito to discover whether a Franciscan monastery in Sicily has been taken over by the Mafia.

Unknown: Bruce Stewart
Director: Martin Jenkins
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C S Forester's 'The African Queen'



TAQ-sp7.jpg An unlikely couple find leeches, love, and Germans in WWI Africa. This isn't a remake of Bogart's film. Here the adaption and characterization stick closely to the novel'. The score's better too.

BBC R4 - C S Forester's 'The African Queen'
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Herge’s The Adventures Of Tintin

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The Adventures of Tintin – Adventures of Tintin – The BBC produced two Tintin radio series in 1992 and 1993 starring Richard Pearce as Tintin and Andrew Sachs as Snowy. Captain Haddock was played by Leo McKern in Series One and Lionel Jeffries in S

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Persuasion by Jane Austen

2309829006?profile=originalEight years ago, young Anne rejected a marriage proposal from a handsome but poor naval officer. Now her former love has returned. Jane Austen dramatization with Juliet Stevenson.

Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after eight yea

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The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen

2309829135?profile=originalTwenty-six years have passed since the death of Jane Austen. Armed with a lock of Austen's hair as perhaps her best clue, Anne Sharp, former governess to the Austen family and Jane's close friend, has decided at last to tell her story-a story of fami

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The World According to Garp

2309829076?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024The World According to Garp is John Irving's fourth novel. Published in 1978, the book was a bestseller for several years. It was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction in 1979, and its first paperback edition won the Award the following

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Family Folk Tales

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What is Family Folktales? A collection of stories to share with your children or grandkids whether you’re running errands, trying to make dinner, or getting little someones ready for bed. The stories may be new to you or old favorites, or even diffe

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2309828026?profile=originalMarcy Kahan's dramatization of Mark Twain's classic tale, following Huck and the runaway slave Jim on their journey down the Mississippi on a raft.


Adapted by Marcy Kahan
Directed by Ned Chaillet
Music specially composed by John Roby
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Casey Jones (TV Series 1957– )

Casey_Jones_Opening_Credit.jpgCasey Jones is an American Western series that ran during the 1957-1958 television season, based around the pioneering western railroads. The series aired in syndication in the United States. Casey Jones aired on the BBC in the United Kingdom and on

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Dirty Harry (film series)

51rm-gJOWWL.jpgDirty Harry is the name of a series of films and novels featuring fictional San Francisco Police Department Homicide Division Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan, portrayed by Clint Eastwood. Eastwood's character also helped popularize the .44 Magnum, a

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Real McCoys, The (TV Series 1957–1963)

51vKAEhTdlL.jpgThe Real McCoys is an American situation comedy co-produced by Danny Thomas's "Marterto Productions" in association with Walter Brennan and Irving Pincus's "Westgate" company. The series aired for six seasons altogether, the first five on the ABC-TV

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The Little Rascals Save the Day (2014) HD

220px-LittleRascalsSaveTheDay.jpgThe Little Rascals Save The Day is a 2014 American direct-to-video comedy film released by Universal Pictures. The film is an adaptation of Hal Roach's Our Gang, a series of short films of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s (many of which were broadcast on

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