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BBC – Alasdair Gray at Eighty (2014)

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BBC – Alasdair Gray at Eighty (2014)
English | Size: 976 MB
Category: Documentary


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Alasdair Gray is a giant of Scottish arts. He’s a great writer, artist, irascible interviewee and controversial essayist. In this intimate portrait, filmed over 15 years, we see him creating work that has become part of the living heritage of Scotland. His novel Lanark is the finest work of Scottish 20th-century literature, and his painting of the Oran Mor Arts Centre is Scotland’s 21st-century Sistine Chapel. This documentary reveals a character who is by turns incisive, chaotic and laugh-out-loud funny. [Read more…]

BBC – Clive James Postcard from… (1991)

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BBC – Clive James: Postcard from… (1991)
English | Size: 1.59 GB
Category: Documentary


Clive James sends a postcard.
Ch 1. Sydney
The Aussie revisits his home town after 30 years away and finds it has flourished in his absence, turning into one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world. He admires the new skyscrapers competing with the famous Harbour Bridge and Opera House on the city’s skyline, samples the region’s wines, and reminisces about his youth as a surf-hero. [Read more…]

BBC – Chris Packham Forever Punk (2020)

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BBC – Chris Packham: Forever Punk (2020)
English | Size: 1.05 GB
Category: Documentary


Chris Packham, environmentalist and life-long punk, reveals how, as a teenager with undiagnosed Asperger’s, punk rock may have saved his life. By giving him a purpose, he was able to harness his creativity, which led to him becoming a TV presenter with a determination to champion wildlife.
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BBC – Dream Me Up Scotty (2013)

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BBC – Dream Me Up Scotty (2013)
English | Size: 754 MB
Category: Documentary


Alex Norton goes on a Scottish accent safari hunting for the good the bad and the totally bowfing of mock jock acting. For over 100 years audiences have struggled to understand our braw brogue: silent Harry Lauder films attempted an accent in the captions, and in Hollywood’s golden era , everyone wanted to paint their tonsils tartan- but as examples from Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles and Richard Chamberlain show, they couldnae. Then Disney made Brave and proved that it disnae have to be all bad. [Read more…]

Ryo Shirakome – Arifureta From Commonplace to World’s Strongest vol 1 light novel audiobook

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Ryo Shirakome – Arifureta From Commonplace to World’s Strongest vol 1 light novel audiobook
English | Size: 542.05 MB
Category: Audio books


Seventeen year old Hajime Nagumo is your average, everyday otaku. However, his simple life of pulling all-nighters and sleeping in school is suddenly turned upside down when he, along with the rest of his class, is summoned to a fantasy world! They’re treated like heroes and tasked with the duty of saving the human race from utter extinction. But what should have been any otaku’s wet dream quickly turns into Hajime’s nightmare. While the rest of his class are blessed with godlike powers, Hajime’s job, Synergist, only has a single transmutation skill. Ridiculed and bullied by his classmates for being weak, he soon finds himself in despair. Will he be able to survive in this dangerous world of monsters and demons with only a glorified blacksmith’s level of strength? [Read more…]

PBS -Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas (2019)

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PBS -Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas (2019)
English | Size: 1.80 GB
Category: Documentary


Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas
Lucy Worsley recreates how Christmas was celebrated during the age of Henry VIII – eating, drinking, singing, dancing and partying like people did 500 years ago. She is getting into Tudor clothes and inside Tudor minds – discovering the forerunners of some of the Christmas customs we still enjoy today and exploring why other festive traditions fell out of favour. [Read more…]

BBC Natural World – The Bat Man of Mexico (2014)

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BBC Natural World – The Bat Man of Mexico (2014)
English | Size: 854 MB
Category: Tutorial


David Attenborough narrates the story of Rodrigo Medellin. Since he first kept vampire bats in his bathroom as a child, Rodrigo has dedicated his life to saving them. Now Mexico’s most famous export, tequila, is at stake. Rodrigo’s beloved lesser long-nosed bat is crucial to the liquor – pollinating the plants the drink is made from. To save both, Rodrigo must track the bats’ epic migration across Mexico – braving hurricanes, snakes, Mayan tombs and seas of cockroaches. The threats are very real for not only Rodrigo and the bats, but also for anyone with a taste for tequila. [Read more…]