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POLIAKOFF SEASON
Sundays from 15 January - 12 March 2006
BBC Four presents a new profile of acclaimed writer-director Stephen Poliakoff and a season of dramas to coincide with the screening of his latest plays, Friends and Crocodiles and
Gideon's Daughter.
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CAUGHT ON A TRAIN (1980)
Sunday 15 January 7pm-8.20pm
Award-winning drama about a young businessman's nightmarish journey on a night-train through Germany, where he meets a beautiful American and an elderly Viennese lady who has an unsettling grip over him.
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STEPHEN POLIAKOFF: A BRIEF HISTORY OF NOW (TIME SHIFT)
Sunday 15 January 8.20pm-9pm; 10.50pm-11.30pm; 3.20am-4am; Wednesday 18 January 1.40am-2.20am (Tue night)
Stephen Poliakoff talks about the themes running through his work and his latest dramas, Gideon's Daughter and Friends and Crocodiles. Contributors include Jodhi May and Mark Lawson. |
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SHE'S BEEN AWAY (1989)
Sunday 22 January 10pm-11.45pm
Peggy Ashcroft plays Lillian Huckle, a 'wild' woman institutionalised for 60 years after refusing to conform. Rescued by her merchant-banking grand-nephew, Lillian forms an alliance with his wife.
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PERFECT STRANGERS (2001)
Part 1: Sunday 29 January 10pm-11.30pm
Part 2: Sunday 5 February 10pm-11pm
Part 3: Sunday 5 February 11pm-12.30am
A darkly comic tale of an only child coming face to face with his huge family and a new world of possibilities
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CENTURY (1993)
Sunday 12 February 10pm-11.50pm
At the beginning of 1900, a young jewish doctor joins a medical institute, where he comes into conflict with the head doctor after a ghastly discovery.
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SHOOTING THE PAST (1999)
Sunday 19 February 9pm-12.05am
A US corporation buys a country house to convert into a 21st-century business school. But when the company representative finds the guardians of a unique collection of photography still there a battle begins.
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CLOSE MY EYES (1991)
Sunday 26 February 10.45pm-12.30am
Alan Rickman, Clive Owen and Saskia Reeves star in this drama about an incestuous love triangle.
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STRONGER THAN THE SUN
Sunday 5 March 10pm-11.35pm
Thriller starring Francesca Annis as a nuclear power plant worker who realises that an accident of devastating proportions is just round the corner.
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BLOODY KIDS (1980)
Sunday 12 March TBC
Stephen Frears directs this gritty drama about two South End teenagers who go on a violent rampage one Saturday night.
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