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Alex Renton
1) Blood Legacy
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Language
English
Description
Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it to the present to understand the legacy of the past. When slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The ancestors of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest...
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
When British Caribbean slavery was abolished across most of the British Empire in 1833, it was not the newly liberated who received compensation, but the tens of thousands of enslavers who were paid millions of pounds in government money. The descendants of some of those slave owners are among the wealthiest and most powerful people in Britain today. Alex Renton explores what inheritance - political, economic, moral and spiritual - has been passed...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With yet another award added to its trophy cabinet (Broadcast Awards Best International Programme Sales, 2010), the top-rated Top Gear returns with its three kids at heart - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May - plus the Stig, at the helm. There's a look at three wheeled cars, James drives a Toyota pick-up up an active volcano in Iceland, and the Stig rips up the track in the new Bentley Continental Supersports.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
With over 10 awards to its name and a U.S. spin-off in the works, Top Gear is showing no signs of slowing down. The fourteenth series kicks off with a driver's idea of heaven when Richard and James take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of 'the greatest road in the world.' Elsewhere, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos; and more.
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to find the perfect car for 17-year-olds, negotiating insurance companies, accident repairs and a very muddy music festival car park in the process. Plus, Richard goes to Abu Dhabi to test the new Lamborghini Murcielago SV and stages the world's first ever race between the 1000 horsepower Bugatti Veyron and the mighty McLaren F1. Back in the studio the star in the reasonably priced car is Twittering...
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 6
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May immerse themselves in the world of classic cars to find out if they really are, as the anoraks claim, more fun than modern machinery. Armed with a budget of £3000 each they attempt to buy a pre-1982 car at auction. Then the trio are sent off to Majorca to take part in one very big challenge - a seemingly unfathomable classic car rally. Bona fide rock God Brian Johnson is the star in the Reasonably Priced...
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 5
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May attempt to prove that cars can be art by taking over an entire art gallery in Middlesbrough and filling it with motoring-related works! In their quest to prove that cars can be more popular than traditional art, the boys engage in some unusual promotional activities. Also on the show, Jeremy is on the test track in a new British supercar, the fast and expensive Noble M600.
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 3
Language
English
Description
Jeremy and Richard settle the thorny issue of which company has, above all others, made the greatest number of truly brilliant cars. James has a novel solution for getting caravans to campsites without clogging up the roads, and Jeremy hits the track in a remarkable replica of a legendary rally car. Plus Radio 2 DJ and all round motorhead Chris Evans is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 2
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, Richard and James attempt to save the planet by building their own electric car, and then put their latest 'green' creation through the rigors of the new car testing process. Meanwhile on the track, the battle of the continents, as Europe takes on the USA and Jeremy pits the Corvette ZR1's muscle against the finesse of Audi's R8 V10. The Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is Hollywood's hottest new property, Frost/Nixon and Damned United star...
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 4
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Clarkson travels to Belfast for a thorough test of the Renaultsport Twingo 133 involving a tunnel, a ferry and the actor Ross Kemp. Meanwhile, Richard Hammond investigates ways to speed up your next vacation, as he invents the brand new sport of airport vehicle racing. At the other end of the spectrum, James May tests the new Vauxhall Insignia VXR in the company of Margaret Calvert, the lady who helped mastermind the design of the familiar...
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 6
Language
English
Description
Undaunted after their epic adventures across Botswana, Vietnam and The Arctic Circle, the Top Gear presenters embark upon their most exciting challenge yet. Clarkson, Hammond and May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s. Forcing their way through gullies, rivers and dense vegetation, they succeed in crossing the jungle, only to encounter drug lords, the effects of high altitude, and the world´s most perilous...
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 1
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, Richard and James take an Aston Martin DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search of an obscure stretch of tarmac that some hardcore drivers claim is nothing less than the greatest road in the world. Meanwhile, James makes a rare appearance on the track as he compares two absurdly powerful limos, the BMW 760i and Mercedes S63 AMG, and gets into a strange card game with The Stig.
Author
Series
Top Gear volume 7
Language
English
Description
Jeremy Clarkson makes a film about the BMW X6 and ends up conducting one of the most expensive road tests in Top Gear history. James May drives the new Vauxhall Insignia VXR, accompanied by Margaret Calvert, the designer of Britain's road signs; and Richard Hammond tests the 340,000 pound Lexus supercar on the Top Gear track. The boys then try out the latest in electric personal transport in the studio, and the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car is blues...
