Leese, Ian

Sense and sensation English culture in the eighteenth century ( Visual )
12 editions published between 2001 and 2003 in English and held by 98 libraries worldwide
Presented by the historian John Brewer, the program explores the arts in eighteenth-century London and depicts prints and paintings, along with artful reenactments of London cultural life. The program considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created--a world with many parallels to today. Brewer tells the interesting stories of entrepreneur Jonathan Tyers and his Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; literature, gallery, and theater aficionado Anna Larpent; Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Royal Academy exhibits of paintings; thespian legend David Garrick; Samuel Johnson and his Literary Club; and John Gay and The Beggar's Opera.

Horsepower ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide
Much-loved, comic actor Martin Clunes (Doc Martin, Islands of Britain) explores his personal fascination with horses in an appealing, light-hearted study of the noble beast. Martin once again travels around the world to trace the origins and evolution of the horse and to explore mans relationship and reliance upon them. A skilful rider and owner of several horses himself, Martin will be jumping into the saddle at every opportunity, bringing the story to life with his trademark gentle humour.

Joanna Lumley catwoman ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide
Joanna Lumley catwoman.

Who do you think you are? Esther Rantzen ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
"Esther Rantzen believes her family history is exclusively a story of genteel middle-class respectability, but there is one story of a black sheep that has always intrigued her. Her cousin reveals the black sheep to be their great-grandfather Montague Leverson who, following some financial trouble, abandoned his family and fled to America. Her investigations into Montague uncover a scandalous story of fraud, bigamy and murder." -- website.

Moira Stuart ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
"Moira Stuart says that she has always felt 'global', with rumours of Carib and Cape Verdean blood circulating in family legend, and a family history characterised by movement and change. Her personal story, too, as she discovered when she started to investigate her roots, incorporates epic themes of aspiration and migration, civil rights and colonialism. Marjorie, Moira's mother, was born in Dominica in 1921, and three years later she and her family moved to Bermuda. Marjorie's parents - Trinidadian Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon, and his wife Clara - separated when she was still a young girl. In 1935, she and her three sisters, Barbara, Joyce and Evelyn, were sent to England, and they went to La Sargasse Convent School in Hampshire. Despite the major upheaval, the girls forged lives in England. After training as a nurse, Marjorie fell in love with Harold Stuart, a Barbadian lawyer. They married in 1943 and moved to Edinburgh. Here their daughter Sandra was born. The marriage ended shortly after Moira, their second child, was born." -- BBC website.

Who do you think you are? Moira Stuart ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past. In this episode, Moira Stuart, news broadcaster for the BBC takes her quest to discover her roots from Scotland back to the Caribbean, and the island of Dominica. Her search led her to slave registers linked to plantation owners on the island of Dominica. She talks to her mother about her service as a nurse during World War Two and the factors that caused her marriage to collapse. Moira also discovers her grandmother was one of Britain's first female medical students and learns how her great-grandfather came to Britain from Dominica to study law.

Sense and sensation English culture in the eighteenth century by John Brewer ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Presented by the historian John Brewer, the program explores the arts in eighteenth-century London and depicts prints and paintings, along with artful reenactments of London cultural life. The program considers the world of commerce and celebrity in which Georgian culture was created--a world with many parallels to today. Brewer tells the interesting stories of entrepreneur Jonathan Tyers and his Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens; literature, gallery, and theater aficionado Anna Larpent; Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Royal Academy exhibits of paintings; thespian legend David Garrick; Samuel Johnson and his Literary Club; and John Gay and The Beggar's Opera.

Fascinatin' rhythm the story of tap ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 0 libraries worldwide
Examines the history of tap dancing from African American rhythms and North England clog dancing - the latter making the claim to be the origin of tap.