Having watched Vengeance Most Fowl on the iPlayer, I left the tv on only to find that the next programme up was the film of Professor Branestawm with Harry Hill and a wonderful cast. Strongly recommended if like me you remain amused by things that made you laugh as a child.
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I enjoyed 'Mr and Mrs Edgehill' ,a 1985 BBC film with Judi Dench and Ian Holm, currently on iPlayer.
It's an original plot . Mrs. has stuck to Mr. through thick and thin, his latest failure being a pineapple plantation on a fictional British Pacific colony called 'Somola' in the late 1930s. Pan American want to build a flying boat refuelling station on an uninhabited island called Cowri, because it is halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and the Colonial Office feel there ought to be a British Resident there,as the lsland is nominally British. So Edgehill is chosen and sent there. Afte many mishaps they settle,and are still there when the Pacific war breaks out and we are left to presume that the Japanese have conquered Somola, leaving the Edgehills marooned , PAA having evacuated after the Pearl Harbor attack.
I was disappointed that it ended there. I had hoped they'd either be rescued by the US Navy or still bethere, forgotten and rediscovered, in 1945, when they'd be acclaimed as heroes at last.Comment
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'The Other Mendelssohn' - a documentary on Sky Arts tomorrow at 9.00 p.m., followed by a repeat of the first of Nicola Benedetti's very enjoyable late-night sessions recorded at the Edinburgh Festival.Comment
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... have been enjoying the four-part Archie on ITVx - telling how Archie Leach turned himself in to Cary Grant.
Exemplary performance from Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant, magisterial Harriet Walter (when is she not) as his Mother, Laura Aikman perfect as Dyan Cannon, his fourth wife and the mother of his only child.
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