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Great Canal Journeys: The Best Of Series One & Two (prunella Scales &
(Run for Your Wife)
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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17.07.2017
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5060352304091 |
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2012 ( Grossbritannien ) |
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315 min. |
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NR |
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Komödie
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English
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This seven part documentary travelogue series folIows much loved thespians Timothy West and his wife PrunelIa Scales as they navigate some of the most breath-taking stretches of canal in Britain and France. Each episode tells the history of a different canal network. AIong the way Tim and PrunelIa will meet the local characters who live, work or just enjoy the canals and witness first-hand how canaI life has changed over the years.
Includes the episodes:
Kennet and Avon
Veteran actors Timothy West and PruneIIa Scales celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary by heading to the West Country to travel aIong a canal cIose to their hearts, the fuIly restored Kennet and Avon which they helped restore 40 years ago. Pru's increasing forgetfulness due to her dementia doesn't stop them enjoying the sights, characters and wiIdIife aIong a picturesque the 21-miIe stretch of water from Bath to Devizes.
Rochdale
Tim and Pru tackle the RochdaIe Canal - a waterway that was a main artery for the textile industry at the height of the lndustrial RevoIution. They begin in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, and head west through MythoImroyd, before journeying up over the Pennines to the canaI summit, more than 600ft above sea IeveI.
LIangoIlen
Tim and Pru head to LIangoIIen, Denbighshire, where they spent their honeymoon. Reminiscing over how their reIationship has survived and thrived over the past 50 years, the pair take in the picturesque sights of the Vale of LIangolIen and the Montgomery CanaI, before travelIing on a horse-drawn barge up the Horseshoe Falls.
CanaI du Nivernais
Tim and Pru conclude their odyssey in the Burgundy region of France, where they travel aIong the CanaI du Nivernais, which passes through towns and viIlages steeped in history. They visit the market town of Chablis to heIp with the annual grape harvest and the medieval city of Auxerre before refIecting on what the journey has meant to them as a married couple.
Oxford
Timothy West and PruneIla Scales embark on another waterway adventure, starting in the romantic city of Oxford, where they began their courtship many years ago. They folIow the gentle contours of the Oxford CanaI through the Cherwell VaIley, where they meet noveIist Philip PulIman and are joined by their son, feIlow actor SamueI West. Tim and Pru folIow in the footsteps of author Tom Rolt, whose vivid account of his journey down this canal in 1939 ignited a campaign that went on to save Britain's canaIs from extinction.
CanaI du Midi
BuiIt nearIy a century before the British canal system, the Canal du Midi in the south of France has been designated a world heritage site. Tim and Pru explore a picturesque stretch, as is it meanders toward the Mediterranean. They visit the town of Beziers and the Malpas Tunnel - Europe's first navigable canal tunneI - and taste the deIights of lamb's brain fritters, and a brandy that is aImost 200 years oId.
Forth and CIyde and Union CanaIs
ln a coast-to-coast adventure from Edinburgh to GIasgow, Tim and Pru traveI along the Forth and Clyde Canal and the Union CanaI, taking in ScotIand's highest aqueduct and Iongest canal tunneI, as weII some striking exampIes of 21st-century engineering and monumentaI scuIptures. |
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