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Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.
The one-of-a-kind Shout at Cancer London choir, whose members have had their voice boxes removed, prepare for their most ambitious concert. Along the way, choir members’ cancer stories unfold, revealing struggles with self-identity and loss. Far from maudlin, the film illustrates the human capacity for resilience in the face of overwhelming adversity.
