Music composed abd conducted by Geoffrey Burgon.
Performed by The Philharmonia Orchestra.
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA
1. Aslan's Theme 1:30
2. The Great Battle 2:45
3. Mr. Tumnus' Tune 1:11
4. The Storm At Sea 1:33
5. Aslan Sacrificed 2:31
6. The Journey To Harfang 2:21
7. Farewell To Narnia 1:41
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
8. Testament Of Youth 1:32
9. Intimations Of War 3:30
10. Elegy 2:25
11. Finale 2:10
BLEAK HOUSE
12. Bleak House 1:40
13. The Streets Of London 3:57
14. Dedlock Versus Boythorn 1:18
15. Lady's Dedlock's Quest 2:53
16. Finale 2:31
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
17. Opening Music 1:33
18. Nunc Dimittis (Closing Music) 2:15
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
19. Brideshead Revisited 2:01
20. Julia 3:44
21. Julia's Theme 4:02
22. The Hunt 2:21
23. Fading Light 3:53
24. Farewell To Brideshead 2:52
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED - Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was
offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally
aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare
the eccentricities and cruelties of young British aristocracy,
concentrating upon several Oxford students. The story is told from the
point-of-view of Charles Ryder (Jeremy Irons), scion of a wealthy Catholic
family who is sucked into decadence by the "magically beautiful" Sebastian
Flyte (Anthony Andrews). Flyte is the son of Lord Marchmain (Laurence
Olivier), master of Brideshead Castle, where most of the story (covering
the years 1924 through 1944) takes place. Brideshead Revisited was brought
to America on PBS' Great Performances series, beginning its run on January
18, 1982. The miniseries created a stir in the U.S. because of its mild
nudity and profanity; the presentation had to be re-edited when it was
shown for a second time on PBS.
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH - Based upon the 1933 autobiography of Vera Brittain,
the five-part British miniseries Testament of Youth starred Cheryl
Campbell in the central role. A single-purposed idealist who intended to
"make a difference" at a time when proper British women were expected to
keep their opinions and ambitions to themselves, young Vera (Campbell) had
her preconceptions and illusions shattered by the devastation of WWI. The
series detailed her experiences as a nurse in London, France, and Malta,
the loss of those whom she held most dear, and her efforts to pick up the
pieces in the years following the war. The five 50-minute episodes of
Testament of Youth were originally broadcast by the BBC in 1979, then were
shown on the American public-TV anthology Masterpiece Theatre beginning
November 11, 1980.
BLEAK HOUSE - This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles
Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt legal
and class systems that prey on the weak and the innocent. Esther Summerson
(Suzanne Burden), a kind and level-headed young woman introduced as an
orphan, is the link who knits several story lines together as a witness to
injustice. She and two other young people - the naïve and vulnerable
Richard Carstone (Phillip Franks) and Ada Clare (Lucy Hornack) - are wards
in an estate case before the High Court of Chancery. They stay at the home
of John Jardyce (Denholm Elliott), a relative. Like so many other
lawsuits, the case drags on indefinitely, depleting the estate while
garnishing lawyers' bank accounts. Richard and Ada fall in love and marry
in secret, but his health declines as legal fees and delays consume his
expected fortune. Eventually, he dies. Meanwhile, in the upper reaches of
society, Lady Dedlock (Diana Rigg) harbors a secret that would ruin her
and her doting husband if it became known. Years before, while in love
with a Captain Rawdon, she gave birth to his child after she received news
that Rawdon had been lost at sea. Upon discovering that the report was
false, she attempts to track him down with the help of a guttersnipe named
Jo, a friendless little boy who later dies, and finds him - buried in a
pauper's field. Lady Dedlock's attorney, the grasping and devious
Tulkinghorn (Peter Vaughan), learns of Lady Dedlock's secret and threatens
to disclose it, but a mysterious intruder murders him before he can do so.
Miss Summerson, who has been a good friend to Richard and Ada, attracts
the attentions of her benevolent but much older host John Jardyce, and he
proposes to her. However, she has already fallen in love with Dr. Allan
Woodcourt (Brian Deacon), who was with little Jo when he died. As the
various story lines merge, Esther Summerson discovers that she is Lady
Dedlock's daughter, Lady Dedlock's husband learns his wife's secret, and
Lady Dedlock runs off in deep despair. The conclusion reveals the fate of
Lady Dedlock, the murderer of Tulkinghorn, and the future of Esther
Summerson.
TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY - Living a premature and somewhat humbling
retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly
resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret
mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service.
Is it the pompous head of service, Percy Alleline (Michael Aldridge)? The
blowsy Bland (Terence Rigby)? The shifty Toby Esterhase (Bernard Hepdon)?
Or perhaps the urbane Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson)? Pushed into retirement
by a scandal caused by the now-deceased head of service, Control
(Alexander Knox), and because he suspected that there was a spy, Smiley
journeys through the labyrinthine world of the British spy service layer
by layer as he hunts the mole controlled by the mysterious Russian
spymaster Karla (Patrick Stewart). Taken from a best-selling novel by
internationally famed novelist John Le Carré, this nearly five-hour
miniseries was first broadcast by the BBC. The story is loosely based on
the infamous Kim Philby spy scandal of the early '60s.
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - Children escaping from the realities of war find
themselves battling evil in an enchanted fantasy world in this made-for-TV
drama. During the height of World War II, four children - Peter (Richard
Dempsey), Susan (Sophie Cook), Edmund (Jonathan Scott), and Lucy (Sophie
Wilcox) - are evacuated from London and find themselves staying in a small
castle in the country owned by a mysterious professor (Michael Aldridge).
While playing in the attic, the kids discover an old wardrobe, and when
they walk inside, they're transported to the mythical land of Narnia. In
Narnia, the wicked White Witch (Barbara Kellerman) has taken control, and
now the nation is in a constant state of winter (and without any Christmas
to make the snowy period tolerable). Guided by Aslan (voice of Ailsa
Berk), a talking lion, the children set out on a crusade to defeat the
White Witch and banish her from Narnia. The Lion, The Witch, and The
Wardrobe was the first of three films produced by the BBC based on C.S.
Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia books; it was originally aired as a four-part
mini-series. 1988