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Underworld

Atmospheric horror flick set in the middle of an epic war between vampires and werewolves. Against the background of this deadly conflict is a Romeo and Juliet type love story as a couple on opposite sides of the war dangerously fall in love.

Menotti: Help The Globolinks

Arthaus presents the original world premi?re recording of Menotti's space-age opera for children of all ages, Help, Help, The Globolinks. Composed in 1968 and first performed in Hamburg, Menotti's music for Globolinks is appealing, accessible and very amusing. The opera tells the story of electronic aliens (the Globolinks) who attack earth and who can only be stopped by the sound of musical instruments, and the story of the little girl who stops them. Composer, librettist and conductor, Gian-Carlo Menotti was born in Cadegliano in Italy in 1911 but has lived mainly in America and Scotland. He studied at Milan Conservatoire from 1924-27 and then on Toscanini's advice at the Curtis Institute where he met and formed a lifelong friendship with Samuel Barber. He has worked mainly in the field of opera and is best remembered for his opera ?Amahl and the Night Visitors?. Menotti himself conducts this archive performance from Hamburg.

Midsomer Murders - Dark Autumn

Another mystery to solve for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby in the peaceful county of Midsomer. On his early morning round in the tiny hamlet of Goodman's Land, postman Dave Cutler is murdered. The brutal killing rocks the peaceful local community. When Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby is called in to investigate he soon discovers that the postman offered more than just a mail service to the female villagers and there are several very jealous husbands who might want him dead...

London Palaces

Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster have provided the setting to some of the greatest state occassions. Yet these are only two of an extraordinary number of palaces in the capital. Whitehall Palace is almost forgotten. Then there is St.James Palace, Kensington Palace and the most famous of them all, Buckingham Palace. There are also those Palace's further flung but with greater grandeur such as Hampton Court and the original seat of kings in the capital, Kingston. This programme embraces them all with a guided tour of the Royal Palaces of London.

Starsky & Hutch

This big screen remake of the classic 1970's cop series sees Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson team up as mismatched partners David Starsky and Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson. Bay City is at the mercy of drug dealer Reese Feldman and its up to the unconventional duo, with a little help from informer Huggy Bear and a striped red Ford Gran Torino, to bring his operation down.