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Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Romantic drama in which two very different men court a widow. In search of a gift for her son, the widow meets a sales clerk who proceeds to woo her. Her fiance is not impressed. Show more

Contributors

This Farming Life

Series 1

Episode 1

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

An insight into modern farming life. It's autumn, the time of year to prepare for the mating season. Sea shepherd Sandy gathers in wild sheep from a remote Scottish island by boat. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Amanda Murray
Executive Producer:
Lisa Ausden

This Farming Life

Series 1

Episode 2

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

An insight into modern farming life. In the west of Scotland in Argyll, husband and wife George and Sybil gather in their sheep from over six square miles of rugged mountainside. Show more

Contributors

Executive Producer:
Amanda Murray
Executive Producer:
Lisa Ausden

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for 4 months

Documentary series. Japan's central island of Honshu is home to over 100 million people, but it has a wild heart, and an astonishing range of wildlife lives there. Show more

Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands

Episode 2: The Southwest Islands

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for 4 months

Documentary series. This episode explores the extraordinary wildlife in the south west of Japan, where a chain of small islands stretches towards the tropics. Show more

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for 4 months

This episode of the documentary series looks at Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost and wildest island. It takes tough animals and people to survive in this ever-changing place. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 44 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Comedy. A worried new teacher has to juggle a pregnant wife and a class of children on a road trip to the national Song for Christmas competition. Show more

Contributors

Donald/Roderick Peterson:
David Tennant
Mr Poppy:
Marc Wootton
Gordon Shakespeare:
Jason Watkins
Mrs Peterson:
Joanna Page
Mr Peterson's Dad:
Ian McNeice
Angel Matthews:
Jessica Hynes
Mrs Bevan:
Pam Ferris
Baby's mother:
Isabel Ford
Supply Teacher 1:
George Potts
Producer:
Nick Jones
Director:
Debbie Isitt

Duration: 1 hour, 28 minutes

on BBC Two England

Animation based on Charles Dickens's classic novel. Cold-hearted, penny-pinching Ebeneezer Scrooge is taken on an eye-opening journey by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. Show more

Porridge

Christmas Special: No Way Out

Duration: 41 minutes

on BBC Two England

Available for years

Christmas special of the classic sitcom from 1975. The festive season falls upon HMP Slade and finds the inmates planning a jailbreak. Show more

Contributors

Norman Stanley Fletcher:
Ronnie Barker
Mr MacKay:
Fulton Mackay
Mr Barrowclough:
Brian Wilde
Harry Grout:
Peter Vaughan
Warren:
Sam Kelly
Prison Doctor:
Graham Crowden

Duration: 29 minutes

on BBC Two England

BalletBoyz directors Michael Nunn and William Trevitt take you behind the scenes of the making of their first feature film Young Men. Show more

Contributors

Director:
Michael Nunn
Producer:
Michael Nunn
Producer:
Kerry Whelan
Choreographer:
Ivan Perez
Composer:
Keaton Henson
Production Company:
BalletBoyz Ltd
Costume designer:
Katherine Watt

Duration: 59 minutes

on BBC Two England

Feature-length dance film. A group of young men brought together by the brutality of war struggle to maintain their humanity in an unending cycle of combat and death. Show more

Duration: 1 hour, 42 minutes

on BBC Two England

Lighthearted romantic fantasy about a widow whose late husband is reincarnated and enters her life again. To complicate matters further, he appears as her daughter's boyfriend.

Contributors

Corinne Jeffries:
Cybill Shepherd
Alex Finch:
Robert Downey Jr
Philip Train:
Ryan O'Neal
Miranda Jeffries:
Mary Stuart Masterson
Louie Jeffries:
Christopher McDonald
Judge Fenwick:
Josef Sommer

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