Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with…
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys’s novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white…
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is…
The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney’s three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with…
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV’s death and 18-year-old Victoria’s ascension to the throne,…