A big family that like any other one includes relatives that see each other often and others that rarely meet, reunite to celebrate the 50th wedding anniversary of grandma Alba and grandpa Pietro in a big Villa, on the island they moved to. Because of weather conditions they all remain strand...
After painter Michael "Mike" Sheldrake"s failed suicide attempt, house-mate and life-long best friend Peter Tremaine, an antiques shop owner, reminisces their common past, like Mike does in therapy. It started at the beach, when scrubby, scared Mikey become the dependent protégé...
To accompany the drama, historians Lucy Worsley and Helen Castor draw back the curtain on the seductive world of the real King Louis XIV to reveal how he became the longest serving absolute monarch in European history. As they discover in this special one-hour film, it was a feat all the more...