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- The story about the daughter of journalist Fox Butterfield who was born prematurely in the fifth month of his wife's pregnancy. Doctors save her, but she becomes dependent on constant medical attention. The parents debate what to do.
- A film about E.M. Forster's life. It is also the story of a special and largely unknown book by E.M. Forster called The Longest Journey, a book that describes Forster's own sense of what his life was to be.
- Leading historians debate whether Adolf Hitler could have been stopped.
- Looks at the pain behind the personal stories acclaimed children's authors such as Arthur Ransome, A. A. Milne, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll and Beatrix Potter.
- A profile of the Duchess of Cambridge, exploring her transformation from a seemingly ordinary young woman to a future monarch and what this means for the royal family.
- Leonard Woolf had effectively kept his wife alive throughout their marriage, supporting and encouraging her through her numerous dark times and breakdowns. The program seeks to understand a remarkable but deeply troubled life.
- Hardy is not the man he appears to be. Combining radical instincts, a hatred of hypocrisy, poetic brilliance and a deep sense of the tragic basis of life, Hardy had a quiet external appearance but internally was a man of seething, gloomy darkness. The author of a series of a brilliant novels, many of which have been made into successful feature films -Tess of the D'Urbevilles, Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure -Hardy late in life became a great poet. Despite his respectable outward appearance, Hardy's life was more complex than it seemed. He married his first wife Emma Gifford in 1874 and became estranged from her for the last 20 years of their life together. They hardly spoke. Hardy was overcome with grief and sadness following the death of Emma.He had ignored her for half their married life. Hardy's uncomfortable secret was that for the last years of his wife's life he had been deeply in love with a young woman -his secretary. Quite simply and rather suddenly, Hardy's acts of mourning and regret released a greater poet within himself. The work he created made Hardy one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. At the heart of Hardy's writing is the intersection of fate and chance with human tragedy, set in a landscape that Hardy called Wessex -one that has haunted his readers ever since.
- Poet, social critic and above all in his own words 'an outsider'.
- The ups and downs in the life of the poet, whose work would become the basis for one of the most successful musicals of all time - Cats. The poet T S Eliot's unhappiness for much of his life is set against the happiness and mutual love he found with his much younger second wife Valerie. This program reveals the contrast between a previously unhappy man with his deeply fulfilling love for Valerie Eliot. An unexpected result of the marriage many years after Eliot's death was the creation of the most successful musical of all time - Cats.
- This documentary special reveals the story behind the deaths of two of Kipling's three children, creating an evocation of a man who had remarkable gifts, yet had to bear great personal tragedy.
- This is the story of a remarkable life of a remarkable woman.
- Queen Elizabeth II A * of Service Elizabeth II: the sixth queen regnant and 63rd sovereign of Britain. She can trace her ancestry beyond the Hanoverians, Stuarts, Tudors, Plantagenets and Normans, back to the Saxon kings of the Dark Ages. Her long reign has seen astonishing social changes in Britain and the world. When Elizabeth came to the throne in 1952, divorcees were still banned from the Royal Enclosure at Ascot. Since then, her sister and three of her own children were divorced. The Royal Family members are no longer solidly royal or aristocratic; their number has swelled in recent times with young men and women from more humble backgrounds.
- Clive Parsons (co-producer) and Roy Minton (writer) discuss the making of the film "Scum" (1979).
- As old as the century she lived in, the Queen Mother was a revered figure in British life. A symbol of courage in the Second world War and an enduring icon of stability, the Queen Mother attracted a loyalty of affection matched only by the Queen herself.
- The remarkable lives of actress Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. With the same interests, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seem ideally suited. They have both confronted difficult upbringings and triumphed. Now they triumph together. This one hour special, including an interview with biographer Andrew Morton, investigates the social background that makes this adventurous marriage seem thoroughly in keeping with the modern British Royal Family. It explores the remarkable lives of actress Meghan Markle, a powerful women's rights campaigner, and Prince Harry, who has broken out of the royal straight jacket without losing his royal dignity.
- This is the story of a fatherless child who rose from difficult and humble origins to become the 42nd President of the United States, but it is also the story of a long-suffering and ambitious wife who transformed her life to become a US senator before emerging as the leading Democratic Party presidential candidate - and potential President herself. Drawing upon extensive material, this remarkable and original portrait of Bill and Hillary Clinton builds into an evocative psychological portrait of two remarkable people and examines both their political and personal achievements.
- Diana's legacy. A thoughtful program examining the legacy that Diana, Princess of Wales left behind after her tragic death - for her children, for the institution of the monarchy and for the admiring public. The young princes impressed the world with their conduct at Diana's funeral, but many questioned how close they felt to their father, Prince Charles, after the years of estrangement between him and Diana.
- Two young men who have had to cope with extraordinarily challenging events and circumstances as, together, they have gone on to change the face of the British royal family and carve meaningful roles for themselves in the modern world. Made in 1999 two years after the death of their mother, Princess Diana, this original and touching documentary examines the lives of the royal princes, the legacy of their mother, the responsibilities of being a royal - and what the future holds for them.
- She was the devoted royal mistress and the notorious 'third person' in Prince Charles's troubled and tragic marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales. Balanced, engaging and informative, this documentary uses specially shot and rarely seen footage to explore Camilla's sensational and intimate involvement with the very heart of the British monarchy.
- Diana, Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York married the Queen's sons and both quit this most famous royal family amid scandal, but in very different circumstances. One died tragically, the other survived but had to reinvent herself. With the passage of time, some of the agonies both women faced can now be seen in perspective, and this documentary probes such matters as it examines the relationship of these two fascinating women. What Diana and Fergie shared as royal wives was a life that brought loneliness and despair to two women who had married into the House of Windsor with such high hopes of transforming it, and the their so-called 'fairy-tale' lives were a parody of the truth.
- From fairy tale bride to estranged royal wife and mother.
- Despite relentless media scrutiny, much of it negative, Harry remains an elusive mystery. This balanced and engaging documentary uses previously unknown facts and footage to throw light on a royal prince dogged by tragedy and controversy.
- The Queen's stability and continuity has allowed Britain to shed an empire and create a new and prosperous identity against all the odds and expectations of most leading commentators. This is the story of a remarkable life of a remarkable woman.
- The definitive portrait of the 20th century's most remarkable woman - Princess Diana - with exclusive interviews and moving footage of her legendary rise to popularity and triumph over the obstacles of emotional and physical trauma that she faced on an almost daily basis.