Film version of the Broadway musical, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi.
On a South Sea island during the Second World War, a young Navy nurse becomes involved with a widowed Frenchman.
Review page 74 (1958, U) (S) (W)
Simulcast on the BBC HD channel (p153)

Adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's smash-hit musical set in the wartime tropics, telling the story of two love affairs in parallel. An American nurse falls in love with a local widowed planter. Show more

This first staging of Tchaikovsky's opera by the Royal Opera is directed by Francesca Zambello. (S)
Simulcast on BBC HD channel (see p153)
BBC4 is showing Swan Lake at 8.15pm

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is the venue for this performance of Tchaikovsky's opera The Tsarina's Slippers (Cherevichki), staged by The Royal Opera for the first time. Show more