The people and stories from global film and television. With Kirsty Lang.
World Service,·433 episodes
Disney takes on Victor Hugo in animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame
20 Jun 1996,·26 mins
Eddie Murphy bounces back in The Nutty Professor
02 Jul 1996,·27 mins
Aliens invade in Roland Emmerich's blockbuster Independence Day
04 Jul 1996,·27 mins
A bolt from the blue for John Travolta in Phenomenon
11 Jul 1996,·27 mins
Sandra Bullock in A Time to Kill. Plus, do the lives of great men make great cinema?
25 Jul 1996,·27 mins
Keanu Reeves goes on the run in thriller Chain Reaction
01 Aug 1996,·27 mins
Kurt Russell is an unlikely hero in John Carpenter's Escape From L.A.
08 Aug 1996,·27 mins
Robert De Niro is an obsessed baseball fan in The Fan
15 Aug 1996,·27 mins
Alfred Molina in Cuban refugee comedy The Perez Family
22 Aug 1996,·27 mins
Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, plus talking with dubbing actor Robert Rietti
03 Sep 1996,·27 mins
Young lovers are separated by the Berlin wall in Margarethe von Trotta's Das Versprechen
05 Sep 1996,·27 mins
Anthony Roland on his collection of art videos and films (The Roland Collection)
12 Sep 1996,·27 mins
BBC drama Rhodes: The Life and Legend of Cecil Rhodes
19 Sep 1996,·27 mins
Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing and Hugh Wilson's The First Wives Club
26 Sep 1996,·27 mins
Gene Hackman is a racist on death row in director James Foley's crime thriller
11 Oct 1996,·27 mins
Kevin Bacon is a sadistic guard in Sleepers; plus, the role of the gun in cinema
24 Oct 1996,·27 mins
Irish history in Neil Jordan's controversial Michael Collins
31 Oct 1996,·27 mins
Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
08 Nov 1996,·27 mins
Mel Gibson as an airline tycoon in Ransom, plus Hong Kong's young New Wave director Yim Ho
14 Nov 1996,·27 mins
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle all the Way
22 Nov 1996,·27 mins
Glenn Close on acting evil in live-action 101 Dalmatians
28 Nov 1996,·27 mins
Sylvester Stallone in Daylight, plus the non-action movies that succeed in Europe
05 Dec 1996,·26 mins
The On Screen end of year film quiz - live!
11 Dec 1996,·27 mins
Madonna stars in Alan Parker's Evita, plus German film Beyond the Silence
12 Dec 1996,·27 mins
Guns, girls, gadgets, exploring the appeal of James Bond
19 Dec 1996,·27 mins
Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks!
06 Jan 1997,·27 mins
Meryl Streep and Leonardo DiCaprio as mother and son in Marvin's Room
07 Jan 1997,·27 mins
In Love and War by Richard Attenborough and a film tribute to director Samuel Fuller
21 Jan 1997,·27 mins
Woody Allen's latest comedy plus Adriana Caselotti, the voice of Disney's Snow White
03 Feb 1997,·27 mins
Clint Eastwood's political thriller Absolute Power
24 Feb 1997,·27 mins
