Handel was 24 years old when Agrippina premiered in Venice in 1710. The opera is a popular mixture of gorgeous music, political satire and bedroom farce; and it’s very, very funny. David McVicar’s mod ...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (BBC iPlayer). The Hollywood 1940 Greer Garson-Laurence Olivier version is not for admirers of the novel. It doesn’t look like Jane Austen. It doesn’t feel like Jane Austen. It doe ...
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THE 39 STEPS (BBC iPlayer). I haven’t seen 39 Steps in years. Premiered in 1935, it holds up really well. It’s is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best thrillers, a perfect period spy story, fast-paced, susp ...
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RESTLESS NATIVES (StudioCanal). Michael Hoffman directed this likeable Scottish comedy in 1985. Two young lads turn Robin Hood (or is it Rob Roy?) and get on their motorbike, having donned wolf and cl ...
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