Sian Thomas

A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family. (imdb)

Adaptation of Philip Pullman's first book about Victorian heroine Sally Lockhart. Sixteen-year-old Sally has little academic knowledge, but has a thorough grounding in military tactics, can ride like the wind and shoot straight with a pistol. So when her father dies in mysterious circumstances during a voyage to the South China Sea, and a letter arrives soon after containing a strange warning, it becomes clear that Sally is in danger and will need to draw on all her skills.

After 200 years under lock and key, all the personal papers of one of our most important monarchs are seeing the light of day for the first time. In the first documentary to gain extensive access to the Royal Archives, Robert Hardman sheds fascinating new light on George III, Britain's longest-reigning king.

-America 1926: The Dutch 24-year-old Antonia Brico (Christanne de Bruijn) emigrated to America as a child with her parents (Annet Malherbe and Raymond Thiry). She dreams of becoming a conductor, but that ambition is not taken seriously by anyone. (imdb)

A "film poem" which is a 2002 updated version of the famous 1936 General Post Office film Night Mail (1936). It tells a hard-hitting story of some of the people's lives which are affected by letters delivered by "The Lady In Red" night mail train from London to Scotland. Shown as an episode of "The South Bank Show". (imdb)