Posted by Adrian A on 05/16/06 09:46

simon@longnews.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
> If, like me, you have been got fed up with waiting for the Beeb to get
> around to releasing the second series of Chris Langham's excellent
> "People Like Us" on DVD, you might be interested in this:
>
>
http://www.fnac.pt/produto.aspx?catalogo=dvdVhs&categoria=dvdSeriesTv&produto=5602193317665
>
> I ordered it last week, and it arrived yesterday - 18 quid including
> shipping. Both series 1 and 2 in a box set, English soundtracks with
> switchable Portuguese subtitles. The menus are in Portuguese, and
> there
> are no chapter points in any episode, but the quality is otherwise
> excellent. According to Wikipedia, there are some music licensing
> issues with releasing series 2 in the UK, which don't apply in
> Portugal. Not sure if this is a BBC-sanctioned release, but there are
> BBC logos all over the cases and discs, and they are proper pressed
> discs - it certainly isn't a home-produced bootleg, and FNAC are the
> European equivalent of Borders, so I doubt they'd be selling anything
> dodgy.
>
> Well worth it for the episode about the Airline Pilot alone....
>
> S.

The shipping must be expensive if the discs are only arround �7.50
--
Adrian

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