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Video: North Square

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Episodes 1-10

by Helenistic | You Tube / Wikipedia |  October 18, 2000

North Square is a British television drama series written and created by Peter Moffat, and broadcast by Channel 4 from 18 October to 20 December 2000. Starring an ensemble cast, including Phil Davis, Rupert Penry-Jones, Helen McCrory and Kevin McKidd, the series is set around the practice of a barristers’ chambers in Leeds. The series was filmed in and around the real life Park Square, Leeds. This is the area in the city where the majority of barristers’ chambers are concentrated. The full series was released on DVD for the first time by Acorn Media UK in 2012. Continue reading Video: North Square

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Anna Karenina Review: The Love Train

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What on earth would Tolstoy have thought? Channel 4 have upped the raunch factor in Anna Karenina, his heavyweight morality tale. But it’s a good move, reckons Mark Lawson

Mark Lawson | May 7, 2000 | The Guardian
 

Tolstoy can’t have known, when writing a novel back in the 1870s, that trains rushing into tunnels would become a cinematic euphemism for sex. But his book about a Moscow political wife’s passion for a soldier – in which the speed of trains is a metaphor for the dangers and consequences of sexual passion – has consistently attracted film-makers. David Selznick cast Garbo in 1935, while Alexander Korda chose Vivien Leigh for the role in 1947. More recently, the writer-director Bernard Rose made a movie version with Sophie Marceau. Now Helen McCrory stars in a new four-part TV adaptation of Anna Karenina (Tuesday, 9pm, Channel 4).

Penelope Fitzgerald – a fine novelist who died last week – once expressed the hope that television would soon run out of great novels to adapt, and return literature to readers. But, although there are the inevitable losses – authorial tone and psychological complexity – Anna Karenina is, at the basic but crucial level of plot, the perfect book for TV.

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Video: The Fragile Heart

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Official Trailer and Episodes 1-3

by Helenistic | You Tube / Wikipedia | November 6, 1996

The Fragile Heart is a BAFTA award-winning British medical drama television series created by Paula Milne and first aired on Channel 4 from 6 to 20 November 1996. The series was nominated for the Royal Television Society award for Best Drama Serial.

Helen McCrory received a nomination for Actress of the Year by London’s Film Critics Circle with her role in The Fragile Heart.

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