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Miss Matty (Dame Judi Dench)
is shaken when a mysterious
acquaintance from her past
resurfaces Deborah surprises Matty by encouraging Jessie's romance with a visiting soldier named Major Gordon, in part two of the classic drama serial set in a town on the cusp of great change.
In the woods on the edge of Cranford, 10-year-old Harry Gregson lives with his large family in a hut. When his mother, Bella, becomes ill after delivering her own baby, and with his unreliable father nowhere to be found, Harry knows things are desperate.
He sets off to poach to feed the others but becomes transfixed by Lady Ludlow's glasshouse with its exotic plants and fruits. Cold and exhausted, he falls asleep on the heated floor, where he is caught by Mr Carter. Moved by Harry's plight, he offers to pay him to run messages during the preparations for Lady Ludlow's garden party – the social event of the year. Harry proves reliable, good-natured and intelligent, and Mr Carter offers to teach him to read and write – albeit in secret, as he is fully aware that Lady Ludlow is passionately against educating the working classes.
At the party, Dr Harrison tries to spend time with Sophy Hutton, the eldest daughter of Cranford's rector. Frustratingly, though, he is constantly called away from her side by both Caroline Tomkinson, who has fallen for him, and Mary Smith's stepmother, Clara, who is determined to play matchmaker between the doctor and Mary.
Matty has a shock when she meets a mysterious acquaintance from her past, Thomas Holbrook. No one witnesses this meeting and Matty tells no one about it.
The party atmosphere deteriorates when rumours spread that a railway line will be built to come right into Cranford. Deborah leads a deputation of the ladies to Captain Brown in the hope of hearing otherwise, but he shocks them further by telling them that not only is it true, but that he will be the Head of Works. A stricken Deborah sees Captain Brown's secrecy as the ultimate betrayal of a friendship, and the railway as the absolute end of Cranford.
Dame Eileen Atkins is Deborah, Dame Judi Dench is Matty, Julia Sawalha is Jessie, Alistair Petrie is Major Gordon, Alex Etel is young Harry Gregson, Emma Loundes is Bella, Francesca Annis is Lady Ludlow, Philip Glenister is Mr Carter, Simon Woods is Dr Harrison, Kimberley Nixon is Sophy Hutton, Selina Griffiths is Caroline Tomkinson, Finty Williams is Clara Smith, Lisa Dillon is Mary Smith, Michael Gambon is Thomas Holbrook and Jim Carter is Captain Brown.
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CIA agents the Sorcerer
(Alfred Molina, left) and his
young assistant Jack McAuliffe
(Chris O'Donnell) try to help a
would-be defector from East
Germany Chris O'Donnell (Scent Of A Woman) stars as fictional hero Jack McAuliffe, a man caught in the dark underside of the American intelligence community, in a brand-new TV event for BBC Two.
The Company is based on Robert Littell's gritty, best-selling novel about the CIA, and comes from the writer of Black Hawk Down, the makers of Rome and Band Of Brothers and acclaimed director Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. The series spans a 30-year period, from the Cold War up to the first Gulf War, and features genuine events and characters.
It is January 1954 in West Berlin. Brilliant CIA operative Harvey Torriti, code-named Sorcerer, and his young assistant, Jack McAuliffe, code-named Apprentice, make contact with a man who seeks to defect with his family from East Germany. In exchange, he offers Sorcerer the name of a KGB mole working in MI6. The Sorcerer agrees to the plan and arranges for the defection to take place. Unfortunately, however, the KGB gets wind of the plan and interferes. As a result, it becomes clear to Sorcerer and to CIA counter-intelligence specialist James Jesus Angleton, code-named Mother, that it was the MI6 mole who gave away the information. But who that mole is remains unknown.
Harvey Torriti is played by Alfred Molina, Jack McAuliffe by Chris O'Donnell and James Jesus Angleton by Michael Keaton.
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Can Fat Teens Hunt? Ep 2/6
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The tough environment of searing heat and humidity challenges the teens to their very limits and beyond as Can Fat Teens Hunt? continues to follow 10 dangerously overweight teenagers as they embark on a journey that could save their health. The teens are spending one month with the Iban tribe, former head hunters, living deep in the harsh and remote jungles of Borneo, South East Asia.
One teen is overcome with heat exhaustion – a potential life-threatening condition – while in the jungle looking for food. He fainted, but was given on the spot medical treatment to counter the effects.
Only a few days into the trip of a lifetime, one teen has had enough. She's determined to go; she hates it all.
On top of this, one of the girls plays Russian roulette with her health as she tries to hoodwink the medical team.
The Iban hosts are equally challenged by the teens. The tribe is bemused by their utter laziness. At their wits' end with the shocking behaviour of their young guests, they call a tribal council where the teens are given a public dressing-down.
And it is now that the full horror of the alien food that the teens will have to eat kicks in. Some of the delightful plats du jour include boiled frog stew, and slimy trapdoor snails with a side order of jungle ferns.
Only a few days have passed and the teens are struggling. Will they ever be able to adapt to this life?
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