12th and 13th century French chants, Latin carols and absorbing gothic music including Gaudete! from the 15th century, a carol performed by The Richmond Consort are among the 19 tracks on the CD enclosed inside the front cover of this Pitkin Guide. The very word Gothic brings to mind fairy tale castles and baronial halls of Merrie England, yet there is an undercurrent of dungeons and dragons, and torture. This slim introduction looks at the art and architecture of the Middle Ages with examples of church interiors and magnificent cathedrals built to the glory of God, village churches, Englishmen's homes with tracery and gabbled windows such as Stokesay Castle in Shropshire, a look at cults and symbols, the medieval Round Table and a revival with Georgian Gothick. 20 page softback, colour illus.

1. Annabelle Lee - Henrey Lesley, 2. Kashmiri Song - Amy Woodford Finden, 3. My Little Welsh Home - W. S. Glyn Williams. Valerie Masterson performs, 4. When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day - Bond, 5. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal - Quilter, 6. Bird Songs At Eventide - Anon. Thomas Allen performs, 7. Linden Leg - Vaughan Williams, 8. Silent Worship - Attrib. Handel, 9. Silent Noon - Vaughan Williams Sarah Walker performs, 10. Music for a While - Purcell, 11. O Mistress Mine - Parry, 12. Blow The wind Southerly - Anon. Peter Jeffes performs, 13. To Mary - Maud Valery White, 14. The Cherry Tree - Armstrong Gibb, 15. Is She Not Passing Fair - Elgar Raimund Herincx performs, 16. The Vagabond (Songs of Travel) - Vaughan Williams, 17. Sea Fever - Ireland, 18. Do Not Go My Love - Richard Hageman Patricia White - Jonathan Rees (Violin) perform, 19. Phillis on the New Made Hay Patricia White, 20. The Tailor and his Mouse, 21. I Know My Love, 22. I Know Where I'm Going and 23. As I was Goin' to Ballynure all by Rebecca Clarke. CD.

These unique fascinating discs bring you original performances from original piano rolls in full digital sound. These are not acoustic or electric recordings re-mastered, but actual performances recorded for mechanical reproducing pianos (Ampico, Duo-Art and Welte Mignon) by the great composers and interpreters between 1904 and 1935. The recordings were made recently on a new concert-grand piano. Cortot, Paderewski, Zeisler, Friedman, Paderewski, Rubenstein, De Pachmann, Godowsky, Novaes, Gabrilowitsch, D?Albert. CD 1: 1. Etude in Cm Op.25 No.12 - Ocean, 2. Ballade in Ab Op.47, 3. Piano Sonata No.2 Op.35 in Bbm (3rd Mmt) - Funeral March, 4. Waltz in Db Op.64 No. 1 - Minute, 5. Scherzo in C#m Op.39, 6. Bacarolle in F#m Op.60, 7. Nocturne in F# Op.15 No.2, 8. Nocturne in Bm Op.32 No.1, 9. Mazurka in Am Op.67 No.4, 10. Ballad in G Minor Opus, 23, 11. Prelude in C Op.57 Nos. 1, 4, 10, 21 and 24, 12. Waltz in F Op.34 No.3, 13. Berceuse in Db Op.57. CD 2: 1. Waltz in E flat Op.18 - Grande Valse Brillante, 2. Mazurka in A flat Op50 No 2, 3. Scherzo in Bbm Op.31, 4. Nocturne in Db Op.27 No.2, 5. Etude in Gb Op. 10 No. 5 - Black Key, 6. Fantasy Impromptu in C. Minor, Opus, 66, 7. Prelude In B flat Op 28 No 15 Raindrop, 8. Ballade in F Op.38 No.2, 9. Mazurka in C Op.56 No.2, 10. Nocturne in Eb Op.9 No.2, 11. Nocturne in Cm Op.48 No.1, 12. Nocturne in B Op.9 No.3, 13. Impromptu in F# 0p.36, 14. Nocturne in C#m Op.27 No.1. Total running time: CD 1 - 67:47 CD2 - 72:13. The piano rolls date from 1906 to 1928. Two CDs.

Packaged for WH Smith, the DVD entitled Churchill: A Giant In the Century is a fascinating film using rare footage and recordings from the archives. It has been fully digitally remastered and colourised using the latest techniques available and shows Churchill's life for the first time in colour. He was a figure who bestrode the 20th century who held many political and cabinet positions including Home Secretary from 1910, and then Chancellor of the Exchequer and Secretary of State for War. However it was on 10th May 1940 when Churchill became Prime Minister and took control of Britain's war effort that he finally sealed his place in history. A soldier, an artist, historian and the only British Prime Minister to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sir Winston Churchill was also an Honorary Citizen of the United States. DVD and large softback fully illustrated booklet. 50 minutes running time.

Written and presented by Sir Patrick Moore and with running time approximately 50 minutes in both colour and black and white, the DVD is entitled The Apollo Story. It features official NASA and Science Museum footage of the momentous Apollo 11 Moon landing. It was July 1969 and a little over eight years since the flights of Gagarin and Shepard, followed quickly by President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. It was only seven months since NASA made a bold decision to send Apollo 8 all the way to the Moon on the first manned flight of the massive Saturn V rocket. Now on the morning of 16th July, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history. DVD film running time approximately 50 minutes. With large illustrated soft cover magazine enclosed.