A sci-fi special, with reviews of Dune,
Dark Star and Blake's 7.
3/4. Including performances by the King's
Consort, Rebecca Outram and the Palladian Ensemble, plus music by JS Bach, Handel, Matteis,
Monteverdi and Purcell. Introduced by Charles Hazlewood.
Sodie Braide plays Rachmaninov's celebrated Piano Concerto No 2, accompanied by the Halle Orchestra under the baton of Mark Elder.
Chinese drama. Two ruthless men plot the murder of a 16-year-old peasant boy deep inside a poorly regulated coalmine in the north of the country, hoping to extort money out of the owner for the "accidental death". In
Mandarin with English subtitles.
Tom Hollander , Susannah Harker ,
Olivia Williams and Anthony Calf star in this 2003 London theatre revival of John Osborne 's award-winning comedy from 1968. Six London friends flee the country in a bid to escape an overbearing film producer.
