The Chaplin Classics season continues with this classic silent comedy romance, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin
A lonely tramp becomes friends with an millionaire, and falls in love with a blind girl. (1931, U) Black and white Woman of Paris is on Tuesday 29 at 6.15am
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Drama starring Bette Davis
Herbert Marshall
When Leslie Crosbie shoots a man on her husband's rubber plantation, she claims it was an act of self-defence. But evidence casts doubt on her innocence.
Director William Wyler (1940, PG)
Black and white Subtitled ................
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Film version of Shakespeare's tragedy, starring Mel Gibson
Glenn Close , Alan Bates
Director Franco Zeffirelli enlists a cast of box-office stars and theatre stalwarts in the famous play about hesitancy and revenge. Music by Ennio Morricone.
(1990, PG) Subtitled ...................... ♦ See Films: pages 43-79 ****
Highlights from Melbourne of the first day's play in the Fourth Test. Commentary from Richie Benaud , Ian Chappell , Tony Grieg and Ian Botham. ............................
A concert of traditional and contemporary festive music featuring Placido Domingo and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Described by Paul Gambaccini. TV presentation Stephen Morris
Digital widescreen The city of Vienna plays host to another seasonal concert on New Year's Day at 11.15am
A look at the life of the distinguished cricketing commentator. Among those paying their respects are Denis Compton, Geoff Boycott, David Gower and the Prime Ministe John Major.
Luc Bondy's production of Verdi's grand operatic masterpiece about the conflict between power and human love. Staged at the Chatelet theatre in Paris, the cast of young singers is joined by the Chorus of the Chatelet theatre and L'Orchestrede Paris. Introduced by Charles Hazlewood.
In French with English subtitles.
(Digital widescreen)
Eight choirs battle it out at the Buxton
Opera House in the mixed-voice semi-final. At stake are the two remaining places in the final, which can be seen tomorrow at
3.35pm. With Howard Goodall.
Digital widescreen
Animated Christmas comedy, in which a little boy builds his own magic baby-sitter out of bric-a-brac
A profile of controversial soccer pundit Jimmy Hill, exploring his remarkable career in both football - as player, manager and chairman - and television. Contributors include Desmond Lynam, Terry Venables, Bobby Robson and Brian Moore. Narrated by Giles Smith.
(Subtitled)
Concluding the season of classic westerns.
Starring Burt Lancaster
Kirk Douglas US Marshal Wyatt Earp tries to keep the peace in the lawless West of the 1870s. His chief adversaries are the Clanton gang, but he also finds himself up against Doc Holliday , a dentistturned gambler, with a dim regard forthe law.
Director John Sturges (1957. PG)
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In the depths of winter, areas of Britain can be transformed into snow-covered, picturesque scenes. But as children in the suburbs dream of a white
Christmas, many animals - from the frozen Highlands of Scotland to the stormy southern English coast - are engaged in a battle to survive the harsh weather.
This natural-history film captures the beauty and drama of the winter months, when swans gracefully transverse icy lakes, mountain hares become as white as the snow, and dormice simply curl up and go to sleep.
Narrated by Stephen Tompkinson. Producer Mary Summerill
Executive producer Neil Nightingale
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Weather presenter Helen Young visits Wells in Somersetto ensure the town enjoys a rare covering of snow. subtitled...
Dramatisation of Henry James 's tragic novel of love and intrigue.
Starring Matthew Modine
Diana Rigg , Aisling O'Sullivan Christopher Newman is a wealthy, self-made young man who visits Paris in the 1860s.
There he meets and falls in love with beautiful but troubled young widow Claire de Cintre. Contains nudity and other adult material. See today's choices.
Dramatised by Michael Hastings
Producer Fiona Finlay ; Director Paul Unwin Digital widescreen ♦ See Drama: page 6
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Drama starring
Stephen McNally
An escaped convict collects a group of hostages and holds them prisoner in a Nevada ghost town about to be devastated by a nucleartest explosion.
Director Dick Powell (1953)
Black and white Subtitled.........
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