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  • Hard Times, Hard Luck
    Philip Algar
    The Devonshire village of Woodfield Magna, like so many in England, is decaying. The young, seeking work and affordable housing, are moving away. The remaining residents are mainly elderly and are confronted by age, a disinterested Member of Parliament and government-imposed austerity. Efforts to publicise the plight of the village, in a television documentary, reveal a governm...
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  • Stumbling Through Life
    Philip Algar
    Having left school in the early Fifties, Tim Adams has no idea of what he wants to do with his life. His father organises an office job for him in a multinational company where Tim is confronted by a very tedious life, in which little work is done by the large numbers of self-important staff to whom juniors are inferior beings. He is challenged by a so-called management course,...
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    28,48 €

  • WEST HILL OR WESTMINSTER?
    Philip Algar
    This is the remarkable story of an independent’s first campaign to win the Parliamentary seat of Devon East in the 2015 General Election. Lacking a party label, an experienced party machine and relying on private donations and friends to fight one of the country’s safest Tory seats, Claire Wright won the highest number of votes, 13,140, of any independent in the UK. Usually, in...
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  • Stumbling Through a Wartime Childhood
    Philip Algar
    Tim, a little boy, growing up in Devon during the war, whose father is in a POW camp in Germany, has no experience of peace. He witnesses wartime damage, spends nights in a Morrison shelter, watches a bomb drop near his home and sees allied troops massing before the invasion. After the war, will his father’s own experiences prevent him from developing a positive relationship wi...
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