The Count of Solar
The true story of mysterious deaf-mute boy Joseph in France just before the revolution.
Tristram Powell
David Noakes
Casts & Crew
David Calder
Tyron Woolfe
John Standing
Georgina Hale
Susan Jameson
Nick Reding
Hermione Norris
Patrick Godfrey
Paul Casey
Jonathan Adams
Peter Benson
Samantha Best
Lisa Bowerman
Stuart Bradley
Elizabeth Brimilcombe
Janet Henfrey
Arthur Hewlett
Kim Joyce
Andrew Kitchen
Sally Mates
Peter Needham
Tony Newton
Danny Schiller
Charles Simon
Paul Trussell
Also Directed by Tristram Powell
Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.
Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.
Nathan Zuckerman, a budding 23 year old writer infatuated with the Great Books, discovers the contradictory claims of literature and experience while an overnight guest in the secluded New England farmhouse of his idol, E. I. Lonoff. Also staying is Amy Bellette, a young woman with a vague past.
A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He retains disturbing memories of the disappearance of his real father and, when a strange message is delivered to him, he's determined to find out the truth.
The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.
A series of monologues.
An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.
Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV program "Arena".