Free Giveaway CDs and DVDs with newspapers

ajmcc_2

quoia wrote:

Daily Star starting tomorrow (Saturday 5th Aug)
ONE-DAY Foreign Language Lessons
"Learn all the words you need to know for a great holiday in just one day!"
Tomorrow's (Sat) is SPANISH
(No Fuss, No Tokens, It's in the Bag with the Telly Mag)
Star on Sunday (6th) has One Day FRENCH
Monday is ITALIAN
Wednesday is GERMAN
Friday is GREEK
I'm not sure if there is a Tuesday and Thursday CD

Just to add to this:

Monday to Friday the CDs are available from Martin McColls Forbouys Dillons
I think there are 2 cds for ITALIAN and GERMAN so Italian would be on Monday and Tuesday and German on Wednesday and Thursday.

quoia

This starts tomorrow - Saturday 5th

Not sure if it includes Sunday because of the Strangler's CD is supposedly included in the Mail on Sunday this weekend.

Anyway just seen a TV advert on East Midlands Central region (Derby) re this.

A daily kiddies DVD for the next couple of weeks - I presume vouchers at WHSmith as per usual.

TWELVE to collect in total !

Only caught a quick glimpse of the ad so I'll update when I know more

Can just remember the TWEENIES, BILL & BEN and FIMBLES being mentioned.

Saturday's is a double episode of BALAMORY

quoia

ajmcc wrote:

Just to add to this:

Monday to Friday the CDs are available from Martin McColls Forbouys Dillons
I think there are 2 cds for ITALIAN and GERMAN so Italian would be on Monday and Tuesday and German on Wednesday and Thursday.

YES !!

I've just looked closer at the advert in today's Star.

The "pictures" for the CDs for ITALIAN, GERMAN & GREEK .......

... all have "PART 1" printed in a corner !

So part 2 for Italian will be Tuesday, part 2 of the German pair will be on Thursday and a 2nd part for the GREEK will be available NEXT Saturday! (12th)

mcallister1

quoia wrote:

But aren't these just "books" - ie. text, words that you READ like a BOOK ?

The ones esalan is referring to are AUDIO books - you just have to listen !

Don't think Project Gutenberg has any of these.

The good thing about these is that they are read well by actors- there are free audio book sites but imo the quality of them is not up to that of AUDIBLE.

quoia

Quick summary for Saturday 5th Aug.

Daily Mail - Balamory DVD
Daily Star - One-Day Spanish CD
Sun - Waking the Dead DVD (coupon swap ASDA etc.)
The Times - Audio book download details

LucyToons

quoia wrote:

Daily Star - One-Day Spanish CD

where does this have to be redeemed???

also any idea what it's like in terms of basic or advanced it is???

quoia

LucyToons wrote:

where does this have to be redeemed???

also any idea what it's like in terms of basic or advanced it is???

Tut Tut - if only people would read the posts ....... (LOL)

As I said earlier :


Daily Star starting tomorrow (Saturday 5th Aug)
ONE-DAY Foreign Language Lessons
"Learn all the words you need to know for a great holiday in just one day!"
Tomorrow's (Sat) is SPANISH
(No Fuss, No Tokens, It's in the Bag with the Telly Mag)


It is INSIDE today's paper!
as for basic/advanced ?

From the Cd itself:

One-day Spanish is a 75-minute crash-course that's gain without pain.
No studying, no grammar, just some fast and entertaining real-life speaking practice.
Learn the 50 most needed words and add value to your trip.
Speak HOLIDAY Spanish in only ONE-DAY !

quoia

Free inside The Sunday Times (next weekend) 13th August

A FREE DVD with SIX original episodes of MR.MEN and LITTLE MISS

To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the children's favourites created by Roger Hargreaves, The Sunday Times is giving away an exclusive DVD.
It features six original BBC TV episodes with Mr. Tickle, Mr Topsy Turvey, Mr. Strong, Little Miss Splendid, Little Miss Helpful, and Little Miss Tiny.

quoia

Not qite a FREE DVD or CD but a download of a short film


Watch The Peaches, the 1964 British entry to Cannes, narrated by Peter Ustinov

The British Short Film entry to Cannes in 1964 is a sensual, sexy, surreal fantasy about a beautiful woman and her passion for peaches. The Peaches, a 15-minute story — which opens with a woman splayed on a bed rubbing her face with a ripe peach — is a mostly forgotten gem of Sixties cinema.

Directed by Michael Gill, one of the most brilliant cultural commandos responsible for the high end of 1960s British television, and written by Yvonne Gilan, then his wife, it stars Juliet Harmer as the Very Beautiful Girl, and is narrated by a fruity Peter Ustinov.

It also features a cameo from a very young, bespectacled A. A. Gill, son of the director and, now, restaurant and TV critic of The Sunday Times. See if you can spot him.

The film charts the coming of age of this clever and beautiful girl with the fruit fetish. In search of kindred spirits of like intellect, she goes to live in the city, but finds herself cleaning in the Ministry. Then — boom — she falls in love, and the peaches die as her love grows. But, in a stroke of luck and British wit, she transfers her craving to pickled onions.

The film won several awards and made Gill consider Hollywood. Happily, he chose to remain at the BBC, where he created the first adult educational art series and later approached Sir Kenneth Clark to make the brilliant television series Civilisation.

Now, in a newspaper first, in conjunction with the British Film Institute (bfi) which owns the rights to the film, Times readers can download this cult story.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17970-2185091,00.html

quoia

quoia wrote:

Not qite a FREE DVD or CD but a download of a short film


Watch The Peaches, the 1964 British entry to Cannes, narrated by Peter Ustinov

The British Short Film entry to Cannes in 1964 is a sensual, sexy, surreal fantasy about a beautiful woman and her passion for peaches. The Peaches, a 15-minute story — which opens with a woman splayed on a bed rubbing her face with a ripe peach — is a mostly forgotten gem of Sixties cinema.

Directed by Michael Gill, one of the most brilliant cultural commandos responsible for the high end of 1960s British television, and written by Yvonne Gilan, then his wife, it stars Juliet Harmer as the Very Beautiful Girl, and is narrated by a fruity Peter Ustinov.

It also features a cameo from a very young, bespectacled A. A. Gill, son of the director and, now, restaurant and TV critic of The Sunday Times. See if you can spot him.

The film charts the coming of age of this clever and beautiful girl with the fruit fetish. In search of kindred spirits of like intellect, she goes to live in the city, but finds herself cleaning in the Ministry. Then — boom — she falls in love, and the peaches die as her love grows. But, in a stroke of luck and British wit, she transfers her craving to pickled onions.

The film won several awards and made Gill consider Hollywood. Happily, he chose to remain at the BBC, where he created the first adult educational art series and later approached Sir Kenneth Clark to make the brilliant television series Civilisation.

Now, in a newspaper first, in conjunction with the British Film Institute (bfi) which owns the rights to the film, Times readers can download this cult story.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,17970-2185091,00.html

Anyone downloaded this ?
Any good?

Sadly I'm on a temporary dial-up ISP at the minute so no chance for me.

The synopsis makes interesting reading - wouldn't mind seeing it myself.