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During the new 2007-2008 academic year we invite all BBILC students to borrow books or English language materials from our lending library. It now has more than 120 new abridged and unabridged titles, as well as many coursebooks and self study materials.

BBC CLASSIC COLLECTION

W. SHAKESPEARE

• As You Like It - starring Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner, Richard Pasco
• Twelfth Night - starring Sinead Cusack, Alec Mccowen, Felicity Kendal
• A Midsummer's Night Dream - starring Helen Mirren, Nigel Davenport
• The Merry Wives of Windsor - starring Ben Kingsley, Prunella Scales
• Measure for Measure - starring Kate Nelligan, Tim Pigot-Smith
• The Taming of the Shrew - starring John Cleese and Sarah Badel
• Anthony and Cleopatra - starring Colin Blakely and Jane Lapotaire
• King Lear - starring Sir Michael Hordern
• Macbeth - starring Nicol Williamson and Jane Lapotaire
• Othello - 1 - starring Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Wilto
• Othello - 2
• Hamlet - 1 - starring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter
• Hamlet - 2 - starring Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Eric Porter
• Hamlet - starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
• Romeo and Juliet - starring  Celia Johnson, Michael Hordern, John Gielgud, Anthony Andrews, Alan Rickman
• Julius Caesar - starring Keith Michel, Richard Pasco, Charles Gray
• Henry IV - 1 - starring Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, David Gwillim
• Henry IV - 2 - starring Jon Finch, Anthony Quayle, David Gwillim
• The Life of Henry the Fifth - starring David Gwillim, AlecMccowen
• Henry V - starring K.Branagh
• The Tempest - starring Michael Hordern
• The Winter's Tale - starring Jeremy Kemp and Anna Calder Marshal
• Much Ado About Nothing - K.Branagh, Emma Thompson,
  Denzel Washington, Keannu Reeves, Michael Keaton etc.

JANE AUSTEN

• Pride and Prejudice - starring Elizabeth Garvie, David Rintoul  
• Pride and Prejudice - new version - Colin Firth, Jennifer Ehle
• Emma
• Mansfield Park - 1 - starring Anna Massey and Bernard Hepton
• Mansfield Park - 2
• Sense and Sensibility - directed by Rodney Bennet
• Persuasion - starring Ann Firbank, Bryan Marshal
• Persuasion - new version, starring Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds
• Northanger Abbey - staring Peter Firth, Robert Hardy, Katherine Schlesinger

CHARLES DICKENS

• Great Expectations - starring Joan Hickson, Gerry Sundquist
• Martin Chuzzlewitt - starring Paul Scofield, John Mills
• A Tale of Two Cities - starring Paul Shelley, Nigel Stock, Sally Osborn
• A Christmas Carol - starring Michael Hordern, Bernard Lee
• Oliver Twist - starring Lysette Antony, Michael Attwell
• Hard Times - starring Timothy West, Edward Fox
• David Copperfield - starring Anthony Andrews, Martin Jarvis etc.
• Our Mutual Friend double cass

THOMAS HARDY

• The Mayor of Casterbridge - starring Alan Bates, Anna Massey
• Jude The Obscure - starring Robert Powell, Alex Marshall

CHARLOTTE BRONTE

• Jane Eyre

ANNE BRONTE

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 

GEORGE ELIOT

• Middlemarch
• The Mill On The Floss
• Silas Marner

WALTER SCOTT

• Ivanhoe

JOSEPH CONRAD

• Nostromo

WILKIE COLLINS

• The Woman in White         

AMERICAN AUTHORS:

• The Portrait Of A Lady - by Henry James
• The Buccaneers - by Edith Wharton

OTHER DRAMA SERIES:

The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Catherine of Aragon
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Jane Seymour
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Anne of Cleves
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Catherine Howard
The Six Wives of Henry VIII - Catherine Parr

Anna Karenina - part 1
Anna Karenina - part 2

War and Peace - part 1
War and Peace - part 2
War and Peace - part 3
War and Peace - vol. 4
War and Peace - vol. 5
War and Peace - vol. 6

I, Claudius - part 1+2
I, Claudius - part 3+4

The Forsyte Saga - 1
The Forsyte Saga - 2
The Forsyte Saga - 3
The Forsyte Saga - 4
The Forsyte Saga - 5
The Forsyte Saga - 6
The Forsyte Saga - 7
The Forsyte Saga - 8
The Forsyte Saga - 9
The Forsyte Saga -10
The Forsyte Saga - 11
The Forsyte Saga -12

Poldark - part 1
Poldark - part 2
Poldark - part 3
Poldark - part 4

Penmarric -part 1
Penmarric - part 2
Penmarric - part 3
Penmarric - part 4

The Duchess Of  Duke Street - part 1
The Duchess Of Duke Street - part 2
The Duchess Of Duke Street - part 3
The Duchess Of Duke Street - part 4
The Duchess Of Duke Street - part 5
The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2, part 1
The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2, part 2
The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2, part 3
The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2, part 4
The Duchess of Duke Street - Series 2, part 5

The Onedin Line - part 1
The Onedin Line - part 2
The Onedin Line - part 3
The Onedin Line - part 4
The Onedin Line - Series 2, part 1
The Onedin Line - Series 2, part 2
The Onedin Line - Series 2, part 3
The Onedin Line - Series 2, part 4

Elizabeth R - ser.1
Elizabeth R - ser. 2
Elizabeth R - ser.3

JOHN LE CARRE

• A Perfect Spy
• Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
• Smiley's People

The Barchester Chronicles
by Anthony Trollope, starring Higel Hawthorne

Porterhouse Blue - International Emmy Award winner
By Tom Sharpe, starring  Ian Richardson

Beau Geste
by P.C.Wren

Fortunes of War  - by Olivia Manning
starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Alan Bennet

Reilly Ace of Spies - starring Sam Neil

Shadowlands - the true story of C.S. Lewis,
starring Joss Ackland and Claire Bloom

Shadowlands - (new version) starring Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger

Late Flowering Lust - starring Nigel Hawthorne - based on the poetry of John Betjeman

A Year In Provence
based on Peter Mayle’s best-selling book, starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan

Between The Lines - Private Enterprises - police drama series
Between The Lines - Lies and Damnlies - police drama series

EastEnders - The Den & Angle Years  - selected episodes
from the famous TV series

Wild Palms - The Dream Begins - science fiction Oliver Stone’s production
Wild Palms - The Dream Concludes - part 2

Adios, Eldorado - soap opera

Howards End - starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson
Remains Of the Day - starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson

The Hanging Gale - Irish family saga

House Of Games - David Mamet’s directing debut

Peter's Friends - starring Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry etc.

Prime Suspect-3  - police drama starring Helen Miren

House Of Cards - political thriller starring Ian Richardson
To Play the King - part 2
The Final Cut - part 3

The Singing Detective - part 1 - Dennis Potter’s award-winning dramatical musical masterpiece

The Singing Detective - part 2

Smokescreen - family drama brings to life the golden early years of British cinema

Neverwhere- by Neil Gaiman

Sherlock Holmes - The Speckled Band & The Illustrious Client

Edward & Mrs Simpson - starring Edward Fox

Oranges are not the only fruit  - the complete BAFTA AWARD winning serial, starring Geraldine McEwan & Charlotte Coleman

Enchanted April - starring Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina

Rhodes - The Life & Legend of Cecil Rhodes new

My Night with Reg - award-winning, funny and moving gay drama  

Our Mutual Friend - starring Paul McGann & Keeley Hawes

Looking after Jo Jo - a dritty passionate story of crime and family secret ;
starring Robert Carlyle

The woman in white - based on Wilkie Collins's novel

The Ice House  - based on the Minette Walters's novel

The Lakes - a tough funny and deeply moving drama

The Scold's Bridle - a chilling drama based on Minette Walters's novel

Bravo Two Zero - starring Sean Bean

The Thorn Birds: Volume One