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Comedy drama starring Jim Carrey.
In 1951, following a car crash, a writer is mistaken for a war hero who was presumed to have been killed in the Second World War.
Review page 49. Director Frank Darabont (2001, PG)

Contributors

Unknown:
Jim Carrey.
Director:
Frank Darabont

1/13; series two. Cold Comfort. It's winter and Shakespeare hasn't been found, so he is presumed dead. Meanwhile, Youssarian hopes to become the dominant male of the Lazuli clan.
5.45 2/13. The Three Amigos. Flower's pups go on their first foraging trip and are caught out in the open by another group of war-dancing meerkats.
Shown last Sunday

Performances by the Proclaimers, Thin Lizzy , the Style Council, Beverley Knight , Rachel Sweet and Dolly Parton with Kenny Rogers. Plus the latest video from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, a live performance by Good Charlotte, and new music from Lemar and Jerry Lee Lewis with Bruce Springsteen. Executive producer Mark Hagen

Contributors

Unknown:
Thin Lizzy
Unknown:
Beverley Knight
Unknown:
Rachel Sweet
Unknown:
Kenny Rogers.
Unknown:
Jerry Lee Lewis
Unknown:
Bruce Springsteen.
Producer:
Mark Hagen

Swamp Cats. A look at the swamp cats of the Okavango Delta in Botswana, seen from the perspective of a lion cub as it tries to cope with the ravages of the annual flood and help the pride to hunt buffalo around the crocodile-infested marshland.
Producers Tania Jenkins and Mike Holding; Series editor
Tim Martin www.bbc.co.uk/nature

Contributors

Producers:
Tania Jenkins
Editor:
Tim Martin

Light-hearted period romantic drama based on the novel by Jane Austen , starring Gwyneth Paltrow. In a corner of early-19th-century England, young
Emma Woodhouse spends so much time meddling in the affairs of others that she fails to recognise her own longings. Review page 49.
Director Douglas McGrath (1996, U) Barry Norman on Toni Collette : page 39; And Don't
Miss...: page 47; FREE Jane Austen audio CD offer page 19

Contributors

Novel By:
Jane Austen
Unknown:
Emma Woodhouse
Director:
Douglas McGrath
Unknown:
Barry Norman
Unknown:
Toni Collette
Unknown:
Jane Austen
Emma:
Gwyneth Paltrow
Harriet:
Toni Collette
Mr Elton:
Alan Cumminq
Mr Knightley:
Jeremy Northam
Frank Churchill:
Ewan McGregor
Mrs Weston:
Greta Scacchi
Mrs Elton:
Juliet Stevenson
Jane Fairfax:
Polly Walker
Miss Bates:
Sophie Thompson
Mrs Bates:
Phyllida Law
Mr Weston:
James Cosmo
Mr Woodhouse:
Denys Hawthorne
Mrs Goddard:
Kathleen Byron

The fourth opera in Richard Wagner 's epic four-part musical drama Der Ring des Nibelungen from the Royal Opera House in London. Siegfried has given the all-powerful ring to the warrior maiden
Briinnhilde as a token of his love. However, he is then bewitched by Gunther and Gutrune, sibling leaders of the Gibichung tribe, into a scheme to pair him off with Gutrune and leave the path clear for Gunther to seduce Brunnhilde. Meanwhile, the day draws close when Wotan will set fire to the halls of Valhalla and bring about the "twilight of the gods". Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Presented by Michael Portillo.
Director Jonathan Haswell ; Executive producer
Oliver MacFarlane (HD)

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Wagner
Unknown:
Antonio Pappano
Presented By:
Michael Portillo.
Director:
Jonathan Haswell
Producer:
Oliver MacFarlane
Siegfried:
John Treleaven (tenor)
Gunther:
Peter Coleman-Wrkjht (bass-Baritone)
Brunnhilde:
Usa Gasteen (soprano)
Hagen:
John Tomlinson (bass)
Gutrune:
Emily Magee (soprano)
Waltraute:
Mtoko Fujmura (mezzo)
Alberich:
Peter Sidhom (bass-Baritone)
Woglinde:
Sarah Fox (soprano)
Wellgunde:
Heather Shipp (soprano)
Flosshilde:
Sarah Castle(mezzo)
First Norn:
Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
Second Norn:
Yvonne Howard (mezzo)
Third Norn:
Marina Poplavskaya (soprano)

Gruesome horror starring
John Nolan and Carolyn Courage. An ancient witch's curse is reactivated when members of the hexed family use the story for a horror film. Review page 49.
Director Norman J Warren (1979, 18)

Contributors

Unknown:
John Nolan
Unknown:
Carolyn Courage.
Director:
Norman J Warren

BBC Two England

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