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761 Imagine: The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens (2006) #625 DOCUMENTARY Main
Alan Yentob presents a documentary telling the story of Yusuf Islam - the singer/songwriter who captured the hearts of a generation in the 60s and 70s with songs like Moon Shadow and Morning Has Broken under the name Cat Stevens.

Yusuf explains that his hit songs were written to help him out of a spiritual depression, and that he shared with his listeners a quest for a deeper meaning to life. After a decade of flirting with religion he finally converted - after a near drowning incident off Malibu beach he promised to serve God if he was saved; he was and it was to the Koran he turned. Now one of Britain's foremost representatives of Islam, founder of a Muslim School paid for by his royalties, he has finally returned to the music he abandoned 23 years ago.
762 Mozart Celebration from Berlin (2006) #648 MUSIC Main
Performed in the grandeur of Berlin's foremost opera house, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Mozart Celebration is dedicated to the life's work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This one-time-only gala concert features exuberant Mozart pieces, performed by some of the world’s leading singers and musicians. PROGRAMME: Ouverture “La Clemenza di Tito”; Violin Concerto No.5, K.219; ”Chi sa, chi sa, qual sia”, Aria for soprano, K. 582; Piano Concerto No.23, K.488; "Per questa bella mano” Aria for bass, K. 612; Papageno's Aria from The Magic Flute; Duet Papageno-Papagena; Symphonie No.40 in G minor, K.550.

Featuring Thomas Quasthoff.
763 Francesco's Italy: Top to Toe (2006) #857 DOCUMENTARY Main
4x1 hour. BBC. Francesco da Mosto travels the length and breadth of Italy.

1/4 The Romantic North. Francesco da Mosto gets romantic in Juliet's home town of Verona.
2/4 A British Love Affair. Francesco learns how to be a courtier in Urbino and goes grape harvesting in Chianti.
3/4 The Heart of Italy. Francesco discovers why Rome is the Eternal City and goes head to head with Mussolini.
4/4 The Land of My Mother. Francesco da Mosto visits the south and Sicily, home of his mother's family.
764 The World's Fastest Indian (2005) #43 FILM Main
Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
765 Syriana (2005) #57 FILM Main
Directed by Stephen Gaghan. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak. A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and effected by it.
766 Mall Cop (2005) #160 FILM Main
Directed by David Greenspan. With Derek Cecil, Kathleen Robertson, Nick Searcy, Jennifer Morrison. An indie comedy where a mall cop befriends her predecessor, who's back on the job after he failed to put the kibosh on a major burglary.
767 The Island (2005) #190 FILM Main
Directed by Michael Bay. With Scarlett Johansson, Ewan McGregor, Djimon Hounsou, Steve Buscemi. Lincoln Six Echo is just like everyone else - he's waiting to go to the Island, the only place left in the world to actually live a life. Thousands of people stay at a facility waiting to go to the Island. It all sounds like paradise, but Lincoln Six Echo soon discovers that there's actually a sinister purpose going on at that facility and that he must escape - but not before stopping the ...
768 An Unfinished Life (2005) #403 FILM Main
Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Josh Lucas. Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.
769 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) #463 FILM Main
Directed by Garth Jennings. With Martin Freeman, Yasiin Bey, Sam Rockwell, Zooey Deschanel. Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."
770 Horizon: The Hawking Paradox (2005) #815 DOCUMENTARY Main
49 mins. BBC. For thirty years the most famous scientist in the world defended an extraordinary idea, an idea some claimed would undermine the whole of science. It was called the information paradox and it led one opponent to dub Hawking 'the most stubborn man in the universe'. But finally Hawking had to admit that he'd been wrong all along. Now, as he nears the end of his extraordinary career, Hawking's scientific legacy is being called into question like never before.

For a year Horizon filmed behind the scenes with Hawking as he struggled to finish what many thought was going to be his last scientific paper. If he succeeded he would potentially end his career on a high, confirming his status as one of the great figures in physics. But the odds were against him, as his physical health continued to decline.

This is an extraordinary story of one man's defiance of disability and his peers. It is a story that ranges from the beginning of the universe, which Hawking explored, to the intensive care unit of Addenbrookes, where he was taken and was critically ill for three months. On his hospital bed he had an insight which he hoped would form the basis of his latest comeback.
771 We Want the Light: The Jews and German Music (2005) #1381 DOCUMENTARY Main
86mins. BBC. Christopher Nupen's award-winning film investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music, from Mendelssohn to Wagner. The heroine of the film is pianist Alice Sommer Herz, who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp and is convinced that it was music that kept her, and many others, alive in those unimaginable circumstances.
772 Vera Drake (2004) #25 FILM Main
Directed by Mike Leigh. With Imelda Staunton, Jim Broadbent, Heather Craney, Richard Graham. Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain--a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
773 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) #522 FILM Main
Directed by Stephen Hopkins. With Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson, John Lithgow. The feature adaptation of Roger Lewis' book about the actor best remembered as Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies.
774 The Merchant of Venice (2004) #531 FILM Main
Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Shakespeare.
775 Holst - The Planets (2004) #608 MUSIC Main
This visualisation of Gustav Holst's orchestral masterpiece 'The Planets' and Colin Matthews' additional movement 'Pluto, the Renewer' features images which enhance the symbolic meaning attributed to each planet by the composer. Directed by Rhodri Huw, this audiovisual experience enthralled a massive TV audience with a blend of images filmed in many locations around the world (including New Mexico, Arizona and Scandinavia), computer graphics, animatronics and an atmospheric performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
776 The Merchant of Venice (2004) #635 FILM Main
Directed by Michael Radford. With Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons. In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
DVD issue.
777 Arena: Pavarotti - the Last Tenor (2004) #712 DOCUMENTARY Main
For 40 years, Luciano Pavarotti has been hailed as one of the greatest tenors of all time, an artist fit to rank alongside the great Caruso. As his career reaches its climax, this documentary, showing as part of the BBC's Summer of Opera, chronicles his background and upbringing, and follows him as he performs to sell-out audiences on three continents, culminating with his valedictory performances of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Backstage in LA, the tenor greets celebrity admirers, including Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman , in Berlin he's reunited with Three Tenors group members Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo , while in his Italian hometown of Modena the maestro gathers top names in rock and pop, such as Bono, Queen, Ricky Martin and Andrea Bocelli , to raise money for the children of Iraq. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen.
778 Garden State (2004) #1032 FILM Main
Directed by Zach Braff. With Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman, Ian Holm. A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
779 The Return (2003) #138 FILM Main
Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. With Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Nataliya Vdovina. In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
780 Good Bye Lenin! (2003) #284 FILM Main
Directed by Wolfgang Becker. With Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas. In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

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