News from the Helpers' Network US for fans of Beauty and the Beast...

News from "ANSIBLE" http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Ansible/a177.html  for the Helpers' Network US for fans of Beauty and the Beast...

BBC-DVD. Mike Scott Rohan has a recommendation: `A small and under-publicized department of BBC Education is quietly releasing classic programmes of the past on limited-edition DVD (and I believe also videotape), available only directly through their website and not through shops or other distributors. The range may include imaginative and SF subjects. In fact, the first three include the 1968 adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, with Peter Cushing and Nigel Stock, the first to be filmed on the actual Dartmoor locations; and the 1978 Gerard Savory dramatization of Dracula, with Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Judi Bowker and Susan Penhaligon, just about the most faithful adaptation storywise and still the only one to have the Whitby scenes actually filmed there, very atmospherically too. I have seen them both, and they stand up remarkably well, despite some creaky interior sets and just one or two dubious lesser performances. The actual quality of the recordings on DVD is remarkable, very fresh despite their age. I haven't seen the third, The Picture of Dorian Gray with a young Jeremy Brett.

Among other subjects being considered are the famous A.P.Herbert's Misleading Cases, with Roy Dotrice and Alistair Sim. 

More details at: http://www.bbcworldwide.com/vet/specialinterests/default.asp - `One word of warning: order handling and delivery seems to be a bit slow, as they're just getting going.'

Non-UK'ers should check out this format and ordering information:   http://www.bbcworldwide.com/vet/specialinterests/content/overseas.asp 

If you'd like to leave a suggestion for a future release (or put in your vote for making Roy's Misleading Cases available), write to: gavin.collinson@bbc.co.uk 

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