Manuel Poiner 's new film Western, opening this week, is a contemporary road movie set in Brittany. Joyce Macmillan examines the way the current generation of French film-makers is looking beyond familiar themes for inspiration. And in a new study, The Victorian Underworld, Donald Thomas investigates the criminal underbelly of Victorian respectability. Night Waves asks why the 20th century is only now coming to terms with its legacy and the secret influences of the past. Producer Matthew Dodd