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Frozen Planet

Episode 6: The Last Frontier

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Documentary series revealing the riches and wonders of polar regions. Today, their survival relies on a combination of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 7 months

As an 'Iron Curtain' fell across Europe, the jet bomber came to define how the Cold War was fought. Britain's V Force became the platform for delivering nuclear Armageddon. Show more

Miriam Margolyes looks back on her role in the BBC’s 1995 adaptation of one of the jewels of 20th-century British literature, Stella Gibbons’s comic classic, Cold Comfort Farm. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Miriam Margolyes
Series Producer:
Simon Goretzki

Duration: 1 hour, 38 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 4 months

Adaptation of Stella Gibbons's comic novel about an expensively educated young woman who is suddenly orphaned and goes to live with her eccentric relatives in the country. Show more

Contributors

Flora Poste:
Kate Beckinsale
Mrs Mary Smiling:
Joanna Lumley
Amos Starkadder:
Ian McKellen
Judith Starkadder:
Eileen Atkins

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The Ambassadors

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 4 months

Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. American Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival provides him with much-needed support. Show more

Contributors

Lewis Lambert Strether:
Paul Scofield
Maria Gostrey:
Lee Remick
Marie de Vionnet:
Delphine Seyrig
Chadwick Newsome:
David Huffman
Sarah Pocock:
Gayle Hunnicutt
Waymarsh:
Don Fellows
Director:
James Cellan

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Frozen Planet

Episode 6: The Last Frontier

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Documentary series revealing the riches and wonders of polar regions. Today, their survival relies on a combination of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science. Show more

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