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- "Shooting for the Butler" celebrates the life of Lord Dunsany, the 'Godfather' of Fantasy literature. His influence on the Fantasy genre includes J.R.R. Tolkein, C.S. Lewis and Neil Gaiman. The early short stories written between 1905 and 1918 are his most significant work but Dunsany went on to have a successful career as a playwright and wrote more than 68 novels. A fanatical huntsman, Lord Dunsany inherited a castle in Ireland and could trace his ancestry back to the Norman conquest. This larger-than-life character is evaluated in this 60 minute documentary, which includes excerpts from several film adaptations of his stories.
- In 2007 filmmaker Digby Rumsey was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, the prognosis looked grim and a cure improbable. After a course of radical treatment, he takes the doctors' advice: 'If there's anything you want to do, we suggest you do it now' and he heads off to Central and South America. HELP! and REDEMPTION follows the painful journey through diagnosis, treatment and heartbreak... Three 'Wonders of the World' later, he and the viewer have witnessed some truly breath-taking vistas...but the big question remains...has he got Redemption?