Simon Williams
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In the modern world, the demands of our professional lives can often feel like an unrelenting storm, battering us with unending responsibilities, tight deadlines, and high expectations. As we navigate the turbulent waters of our careers, it's all too easy to find ourselves adrift in the treacherous sea of burnout. The phenomenon of burnout is not a mere buzzword; it's a real and pervasive issue that affects individuals across various industries, from...
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"The royal banquet:": Angelina is requested to dance for Queen Seraphina, but on her way, she and Miss Lilly get lost. "Angelina the mouse detective": With a garden gnome thief, Angelina is on the trail. "Angelina's baby sister": Angelina adores her new baby sister, that is until she gets all the attention. "The costume ball": When Angelina and Alice sneak out and disquise themselves to attend a costume ball, they discover being a 'grown-up' isn't...
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"Angelina and the silver locket": Angelina borrows her mother's precious silver locket without permission and is devastated when she loses it. "Show and tell": Angelina takes her baby sister, Polly, to 'Show and Tell Day' at school. "The proposal": Angelina doesn't believe Mr. Operatski is a worthy suitor for Miss Lilly and sets out to prove it. "Heads and tails": The new statue of Queen Seraphina is missing its head. Will Angelina and her friends...
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(A patriotic offering) With James at the front, Hazel is convinced to help the war effort by hosting a family of Belgian refugees. (News from the front) James is in line for an award for bravery but confides this information to Sir Geoffrey Dillon. When the press finds out, James' military career is in jeopardy. (The beastly Hun) A mob burns down the shop of the Schoenfelds, German bakers who have supplied bread to the Bellamy household for years....
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(Missing believed killed) Georgina looks for James among the thousands of wounded and, miraculously, finds him. (Facing fearful odds) Virginia Hamilton, an attractive and intelligent widow Richard has helped before, comes to ask for his assistance with her son, who is to be court-martialled for cowardice. Edward deserts, but Hudson convinces him to return to his post. (Peace out of pain) The Great War comes to an end. Edward and Daisy plan their new...
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(Tug of war) James, frustrated with his staff posting, fights to be reassigned to a frontline unit, and Georgina begins training for duty in France. (Home fires) Rose's old flame, the Australian Gregory Wilmot, proposes to her again. Lady Prudence complains to Richard that Hazel is running the household improperly.
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(The glorious dead) Rose's fiancé is killed in battle, and Hazel learns that Dyson, with whom she had an affair while James was away, has also been killed. (Another year) Edward returns from the front, and the servants throw a party for him, but his nerves are shot and he collapses. Ruby, who had left the house to work at a munitions factory, returns to Eaton Place when the factory explodes. (The hero's farewell) An explosion during Lady Prudence's...
8) High hopes
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Cyril and Shirley are a young, working-class couple who, in their struggle to make ends meet, have become absorbed in socialism. Cyril's sister Valerie and her husband aspire to a more privileged class. The only glue holding the siblings together is their withdrawn and wistful old mother.
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Lights, camera, action!: Angelina enters a movie making contest. She decides to make a weepy melodrama with herself in the starring role. Anya's visit: Angelina's best friend, Anya, comes to visit and becomes the center of attention. Henry's halloween: Henry is convinced he's seen the fabled Chipping Cheddar witch in the village. Sammy's club: Sammy and his friends won't let William join their downhill racer club.
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Dramatization of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The most eligible bachelor in London, Lord St. Simon, has just married a wealthy American woman. The young couple's wedding day turns to tragedy when an unwelcome guest arrives at the wedding breakfast and the bride disappears. Sherlock Holmes is plagued with terrible nightmares, which cause him to regard the plight of Lord St. Simon with contempt. Will Holmes take the case?
11) Naked
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Criterion collection volume 307
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A charming, eloquent, and vicious drifter on the lam in London rejects those who would care for him and hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his path.
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In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
13) All or nothing
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In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.
14) Life is sweet
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Criterion collection volume 659
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An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
15) Secrets & lies
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Criterion collection volume 1070
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When Hortense begins the search for her birth mother as an adult, the revelation that a lonely white factory worker gave up a black baby for adoption sends shock waves through the family.
16) Happy-go-lucky
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Poppy is a life-loving and irrepressibly cheerful primary school teacher. She is thirty years old, single, and infinitely optimistic and accepting. She lives with her best friend and flatmate Zoe in London. She is tested by a repressed driving instructor with anger problems, and, in turn, she decides to test him. She has exciting flamenco lessons, an encounter with a homeless man, an argument with her pregnant sister, and a love-affair with the social...
17) Vera Drake
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Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain.
18) Topsy-turvy
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Criterion collection volume 558
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Brings the world of Gilbert and Sullivan to life as a dramatization of the staging of the duo's legendary 1885 comic opera, The Mikado. The world-famous Victorian librettist and composer, along with their troupe of temperamental actors, must battle personal and professional demons while mounting this major production becomes an epic about the harsh realities of creative expression.
19) Series 1 Box Set
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After the mysterious events at Coal Hill School, the British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. Their first missions will involve a haunted warehouse, a ground-breaking artificial intelligence, a mysterious new town and a threat to the future of the country...
20) Series 2 Box Set
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The British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. This series includes four of their adventures, plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.