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Duration: 1 hour, 51 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Three HD

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Contributors

Briony Tallis (18):
Romola Garai
Tommy Nettle:
Daniel Mays
Emily Tallis:
Harriet Walter
Briony Tallis (13):
Saoirse Ronan
Sister Drummond:
Gina McKee
Paul Marshall:
Benedict Cumberbatch
Grace Turner:
Brenda Blethyn
Cecilia Tallis:
Keira Knightley
Lola Quincey:
Juno Temple
Director:
Jon Wright
Older Briony:
Vanessa Redgrave
Robbie Turner:
James McAvoy
Writer:
Ian McEwan

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Psychological drama. A biographer, hearing the previously untold dark and disturbing life story of a dying novelist, is compelled to finally face the trauma of her own past. Show more

Contributors

Director:
James Kent
Margaret Lea:
Olivia Colman
Vida Winter:
Vanessa Redgrave
Young Adeline / Vida:
Sophie Turner
Hester Barrow:
Alexandra Roach
John the Dig:
Robert Pugh
Isabelle March:
Emily Beecham
Charlie Angelfield:
Michael Jibson
Dr Mawsley:
Tom Goodman-Hill
Ambrose Proctor:
Adam Long
Young Margaret:
Isabel Barlow
Aurelius Love:
Gordon Winter
Peter Lomax:
Martin Wimbush
Young Emmeline:
Antonia Clarke
The Missus:
Janet Amsden
Emmeline / Adeline, aged 9:
Madeleine Power
Theodora Mawsley:
Lizzie Hopley
Producer:
David Heyman
Producer:
Norma Heyman

Front Row

Star Wars, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Edith Piaf celebrated

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Star Wars director JJ Abrams on The Force Awakens, Christopher Hampton discusses his new stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and the enduring appeal of Edith Piaf. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
J.J. Abrams
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Interviewed Guest:
Josie Rourke
Interviewed Guest:
Barb Jungr
Interviewed Guest:
Carolyn Burke
Producer:
Angie Nehring

Front Row

Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton, Rokia Traore, The body in ancient Egypt

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews, including Gina McKee and Christopher Hampton on The Mother, Malian singer Rokia Traore and the day-to-day routines of ancient Egyptians. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Gina McKee
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Interviewed Guest:
Rokia Traore

Front Row

Christopher Hampton, Maggie's Plan, Arnolfini, Queens of Syria

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Arts news, interviews and reviews. Christopher Hampton on translating The Truth, Maggie's Plan reviewed, Bristol's Arnolfini centre, and the play Queens of Syria. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Interviewed Guest:
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
Interviewed Guest:
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Interviewed Guest:
undefined Amwar
Interviewed Guest:
Zoe Lafferty

Front Row

Fay Weldon; Raw review; Duchamp's Fountain; Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Death of a She Devil is Fay Weldon's new novel, Bryony Hanson reviews the film Raw, Richard Cork on Duchamp's Fountain, Simon Callow and Christopher Hampton on The Philantropist. Show more

Contributors

Interviewed Guest:
Fay Weldon
Interviewed Guest:
Briony Hanson
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Cork
Interviewed Guest:
Simon Callow
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Presenter:
Stig Abell

Duration: 1 hour, 53 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One EastLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Two 18th-century French aristocrats play a cruel game of seduction and manipulation, only to find that their cruel machinations will eventually destroy them too.

Contributors

Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil:
Glenn Close
Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont:
John Malkovich
Madame Marie de Tourvel:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Cécile de Volanges:
Uma Thurman
Madame de Volanges:
Swoosie Kurtz
Le Chevalier Raphael Danceny:
Keanu Reeves
Madame de Rosemonde:
Mildred Natwick

Arena

Paul Scofield

Duration: 1 hour

First broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland (Analogue)Latest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales

A host of leading theatrical greats, including Peter Brook, Vanessa Redgrave and John Hurt, pay tribute to the outstanding British actor Paul Scofield. Show more

Contributors

Participant:
Donald Sinden
Participant:
Virginia McKenna
Participant:
Richard Eyre
Participant:
Nicholas Hytner
Participant:
Vanessa Redgrave
Participant:
John Harrison
Participant:
Peter Brook
Participant:
John Tydeman
Participant:
Simon Callow
Participant:
Alec McCowen
Participant:
Peter Hall
Participant:
John Hurt
Participant:
Felicity Kendal
Participant:
Eileen Atkins
Participant:
Michael Billington

Brand

Arena

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury's satirical novel of 1970's greybrick campus life stars a moustachioed Antony Sher as Howard Kirk, Marxist sociologist, womaniser and bully. Show more

Contributors

Howard Kirk:
Antony Sher
Barbara Kirk:
Geraldine James
Flor Beniform:
Isla Blair
Henry Beamish:
Paul Brooke
George Carmody:
Peter Hugo-Daly

Genres

Duration: 1 hour, 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury's satirical novel of 1970s greybrick campus life. Starring a moustachioed Antony Sher as Howard Kirk - Marxist sociologist, womaniser and bully. Show more

Contributors

Howard Kirk:
Antony Sher
Barbara Kirk:
Geraldine James
Flor Beniform:
Isla Blair
Henry Beamish:
Paul Brooke
George Carmody:
Peter Hugo-Daly

Genres

Duration: 1 hour, 31 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Scotland

Drama in which the comfortable life of a British journalist in pre-war Vietnam is threatened by the increasing violence, and the arrival of a young American aid worker.

Contributors

Thomas Fowler:
Michael Caine
Alden Pyle:
Brendan Fraser
Inspector Vigot:
Rade Sherbedgia
Director:
Phillip Noyce
Hinh:
Tzi Ma
Joe Tunney:
Robert Stanton
Bill Granger:
Holmes Osborne
General Thé:
Quang Hai
Phuong's Sister:
Pham Thi Mai Hoa
Director of photography:
Christopher Doyle

Free Thinking

Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Anne Enright, Ireland's first laureate for fiction, discusses her new novel The Green Road with Anne McElvoy. Plus Christopher Hampton on translating the plays of Florian Zeller. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Anne Enright
Interviewed Guest:
Richard Layard
Interviewed Guest:
David Clark
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton

Free Thinking

Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Ruth Scurr on John Aubrey, Beowulf

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 3

Available for over a year

Ruth Scurr discusses John Aubrey, and Anne McElvoy talks to Christopher Hampton and Adjoa Andoh about Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Plus Star Wars and a TV version of Beowulf. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest:
Ruth Scurr
Interviewed Guest:
Christopher Hampton
Interviewed Guest:
Adjoa Andoh
Interviewed Guest:
Eleanor Barraclough
Interviewed Guest:
Marcus Chown
Producer:
Zahid Warley