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The Ambassadors

Duration: 1 hour, 35 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Available for 3 months

Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. American Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival provides him with much-needed support. Show more

Contributors

Lewis Lambert Strether:
Paul Scofield
Maria Gostrey:
Lee Remick
Marie de Vionnet:
Delphine Seyrig
Chadwick Newsome:
David Huffman
Sarah Pocock:
Gayle Hunnicutt
Waymarsh:
Don Fellows
Director:
James Cellan

Genres

Duration: 1 hour, 54 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two HD

The true story of English war widow Violette Szabo, who was awarded the George Cross for her work as a secret agent in occupied France in the Second World War. Show more

Contributors

Violette Szabo:
Virginia McKenna
Tony Fraser:
Paul Scofield
Mr Bushell:
Jack L Warner
Mrs Bushell:
Denise Grey
Etienne Szabo:
Alain Saury
Lillian Rolfe:
Anne Leon
Vera Atkins:
Avice Landon
Denise Bloch:
Nicole Stephane
Director:
Lewis Gilbert

Playhouse

A Song at Twilight

Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes

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

Available for 5 weeks

Enormously successful writer Sir Hugo Latymer has a tryst with the past not altogether to his liking.

Contributors

Carlotta Gray:
Deborah Kerr
Hugo Latymer :
Paul Scofield
Producer:
Rosemary Hill

Genres

Duration: 2 hours, 7 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland

Available for 8 months

In 1944, the French Resistance must stop a train without damaging its cargo of valuable modern master paintings, which an unusually art-loving Nazi official has appropriated.

Contributors

Paul Labiche:
Burt Lancaster
Christine:
Jeanne Moreau
Colonel Franz Von Waldheim:
Paul Scofield
Papa Boule:
Michel Simon
Producer:
Jules Bricken

Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Wales HD

Kenneth Branagh's Oscar-winning adaptation of Shakespeare's play telling the story of the courageous king's invasion of France and the historic Battle of Agincourt. Show more

Contributors

King Henry V:
Kenneth Branagh
King Charles VI of France:
Paul Scofield
Captain Fluellen:
Ian Holm
Princess Katherine de Valois:
Emma Thompson
Bishop of Ely:
Alec McCowen
Mistress Nell Quickly:
Judi Dench
Earl Richard of Cambridge:
Fabian Cartwright
Lord Henry Scroop:
Stephen Simms
Sir Thomas Grey:
Jay Villiers
Auncient Pistol:
Robert Stephens
Corporal Nym:
Geoffrey Hutchings
Lieutenant Bardolph:
Richard Briers
Sir John Falstaff:
Robbie Coltrane
Duke Humphrey of Gloucester:
Simon Shepherd
Duke John of Bedford:
James Larkin
Duke Thomas Beaufort of Exeter:
Brian Blessed
Archbishop of Canterbury:
Charles Kay
Macmorris:
John Sessions
Louis the Dauphin:
Michael Maloney
Duke Philippe of Burgundy:
Harold Innocent
Producer:
Bruce Sharman
Composer:
Patrick Doyle
Director of photography:
Kenneth MacMillan

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC HDLatest broadcast: on BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

Available for 4 months

Multi-award winning historical drama about Sir Thomas More's refusal to acknowledge Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church. Starring Paul Scofield. Show more

Contributors

Sir Thomas More:
Paul Scofield
Lady Alice:
Wendy Hiller
Thomas Cromwell:
Leo McKern
King Henry VIII:
Robert Shaw
Margaret:
Susannah York
Richard Rich:
John Hurt
Duke of Norfolk:
Nigel Davenport
Will Roper:
Corin Redgrave
Cardinal Wolsey:
Orson Welles