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Adventure. When Beth and her mother move to the country after her father's death, Beth befriends tomboy Jody. The two girls embark on a mission to find hidden gold beneath Bear Mountain.
Widescreen.
Review page 61.
(1995, PG) **
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Kevin James Dobson
Beth Easton:
Christina Ricci
Jody Salerno:
Anna Chlumsky
Kate Easton:
Polly Draper
Matt Hollinger:
Brian Kerwin
Lynette Salerno:
Diana Scarwid
Ray Karnisak:
David Keith

A performance based on act two of Leos Janacek's turn-of-the-century opera Jenufa.
Conducted by Graham Jackson.

Shot in the valleys of south Wales, the film uses a tense film noir style to tell the tragic story of a woman's attempts not to see her stepdaughter make the same mistakes she did.
(W)

Contributors

Composer:
Leos Janacek
Conductor:
Graham Jackson
Jenufa:
Amanda Roocroft (soprano)
Kostelnicka:
Suzanne Murphy (soprano)
Laca:
Gordon Wilson (tenor)
Steva:
Nicholas Sears (tenor)

A performance of the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Award-winning adaptation of Shakespeare's play, which moves the story to thirties Venice.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Author:
William Shakespeare
Producer:
Richard Price
Director:
Chris Hunt
Director:
Trevor Nunn
Shylock:
Henry Goodman
Antonio:
David Bamber
Bassanio:
Alexander Hanson
Portia:
Derbhle Crotty
Nerissa:
Alex Kelly
Gratiano:
Richard Henders
Jessica:
Gabrielle Jourdan
Lorenzo:
Jack James
Solanio:
Mark Umbers
Salerio:
Peter de Jersey
Prince of Morocco:
Chu Omambala
Prince of Arragon:
Raymond Coulthard
Duke of Venice:
David Burt

Oscar-winning biographical drama.

Karen Blixen leaves her native Denmark in 1913 to marry a Swedish baron and run a coffee farm in Kenya. Travelling to Nairobi, she meets adventurer Denys Finch Hatton and a love story begins that is inextricably bound up with the beauty of Africa, its land and its people.
Widescreen.
Review page 61.
(1985, PG) ****
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Sydney Pollack
Karen:
Meryl Streep
Denys Finch Hatton:
Robert Redford
Baron/Hans Klaus:
Maria Brandauer
Berkeley Cole:
Michael Kitchen
Farah:
Malick Bowens
Kamante:
Joseph Thiaka
Kinanjui:
Stephen Kinyanjui
Lord Delamere:
Michael Gough
Felicity:
Suzanna Hamilton
Lady Belfield:
Rachel Kempson

In the traditional end-of-year message, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Dr George Carey, reflects on the past year and looks forward to the 12 months to come.
(Repeated tomorrow 1.25pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

Contributors

Speaker:
The Most Rev Dr George Carey
Producer:
Chris Loughlin

For all thirty somethings, a compilation of highlights from the nostalgia-laden series that ran from January to March earlier this year. It was the decade when rah-rah skirts and deeley boppers were considered the height of fashion, every woman's dream was supposedly personified by Baywatch's David Hasselhoff and Tom Selleck as Magnum, when dolls either came from the cabbage patch or were martial-arts-practising turtles living in a sewer, and music ran the gamut from the northern synthesiser pop of the Human League to the prototype boy band Bros.
(Relive the Eighties again at 1.25am)
(S) (W)
(The I Love the Seventies series continues tomorrow at 11pm with

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Alan Brown

Fantasy comedy drama.

Following a fight over the TV remote control, teenagers David and Jennifer find themselves transported to the black-and-white setting of fifties soap opera Pleasantville. Struggling to integrate themselves into this two-dimensional world, the siblings discover their modern sensibilities are having a strange effect on other characters in the show.
Widescreen.
Review page 61.
(1998, 12) *****
(Colour and BW) (S) (W)

Contributors

Director:
Gary Ross
David:
Tobey Maguire
Jennifer:
Reese Witherspoon
Betty Parker:
Joan Allen
George Parker:
William H. Macy
Mr Johnson:
Jeff Daniels
Big Bob:
J.T. Walsh
TV repairman:
Don Knotts
Skip:
Paul Walker
Margaret Henderson:
Marley Shelton
David and Jennifer's mom:
Jane Kaczmarek
Howard:
Giuseppe Andrews
Kimmy:
Marissa Ribisi
Mark Davis:
Justin Nimmo
Real Mary Sue Parker:
Natalie Ramsey
Real Bud Parker:
Kevin Connors
Christin:
Jenny Lewis
Mr Simpson:
Harry Singleton

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