![]() ![]() Maggie Smith is also excellent, playing the stern Mother Superior with a sprinkle of sass. It’s typical fish-out-of-water fare, but the real joy comes as she makes over the convent’s dismal choir and the nuns come out of their shells. Whoopi Goldberg camped it up in this uplifting comedy, playing a singer who winds up in a San Francisco convent after being put into witness protection. It’s all screamingly camp, but undergirded by a hotbed of raw jealousy from Roberts that culminates in perhaps cinema’s greatest – read: most cringe-inducing – karaoke scene. The piano scene, in one of those lavish toy stores that only exist in films of this period, is by now a modern classic.įood critic Julia Roberts belatedly decides she’s madly in love with her best mate (Dermot Mulroney) and tries to break up his engagement to the most good-natured woman on earth, Cameron Diaz’s Kimberly, in PJ Hogan’s romcom. This allows adult Josh (Tom Hanks) to goof around charmingly. Then, by magic, he becomes one – physically, at any rate, as he still has the mind of a child. Thirteen-year-old Josh (David Moscow) wishes that he were a grown-up. Identity-switch comedies are ten-a-penny, but this remains fresh, smart and one of the sweetest of them all. All seven episodes will be on iPlayer on Saturday. Just to prove that director Christopher Nolan wasn’t the first to be fascinated by the inventor of the atomic bomb, a rare chance to catch this triple Bafta-winning (and Emmy nominated) drama from 1980, starring the estimable Sam Waterston as the physicist, who was famously plagued by regrets. We’re taken from the 1840s, when the fast-growing Royal family inspired her to add a new wing, balcony and raft of servants, to Prince Albert’s premature death in 1861. ![]() Tonight, Elizabeth (Alicia von Rittberg) faces another loyalty test when the court is shocked by her stepsister Mary’s (Romola Garai) defiance but that’s nothing compared to the dilemma she faces when Seymour (Tom Cullen) makes a series of missteps.īuckingham Palace with Alexander ArmstrongĪlexander Armstrong continues his fascinating look at the historic palace by exploring the ups-and-downs of Queen Victoria’s time there. The slick costume drama set during Elizabeth I’s teenage years continues with a double bill. Later at 12.55am, The Everly Brothers: Harmonies from Heaven examines their Appalachian upbringing. Ahead of their 1983 reunion concert at the Royal Albert Hall (10.35pm), director Anthony Wall traces the brother’s influence on a generation of stars. This vintage edition of the BBC’s flagship arts series traces the rise, acrimonious split and reunion of two early giants of rock’n’roll, Don and Phil Everly. The Everly Brothers: Songs of Innocence and Experience: Arena Strictly’s Anton Du Beke is among those gracing the Pointless podium, along with EastEnders actress Emma Barton, saxophonist YolanDa Brown, antiques expert Eric Knowles and The Repair Shop’s Will Kirk. The two-part docu-series about the late Queen’s life prior to her accession to the throne concludes by covering her marriage to Prince Philip in 1947, the birth of her two eldest children and her fateful, life-altering trip to Kenya in 1952. That there was far more to Anne besides (she set a number of key royal precedents, such as making her husband prince consort rather than king) is celebrated in an enthusiastically fascinating documentary. Principally the 1707 Act of Union, which united England and Scotland for the first time, ensured the Protestant succession and made Anne the first monarch of Great Britain. “It’s time to change the narrative,” says Dr Tracy Borman, one of many historians and authors (including Alice Loxton) arguing Anne’s case here – and rightly so, as she reigned over a period that saw some of the most complex political changes ever to occur on these islands. However, her regal achievements are rarely acknowledged. Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714, is mostly remembered for her childbearing tragedies, the death of her 11-year-old sole heir Prince William and the later-in-life scandal surrounding the vicious rivalry between two of her ladies in waiting (which in turn inspired the 2018 Oscar-winning film The Favourite). Widely regarded as something of a side note to British history, Queen Anne is undergoing a welcome reassessment. ![]()
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