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Already described as an Australian Gone with The Wind, it stars Nicole Kidman as the aristocratic English snip, who comes to Australia to find out what her husband is doing with his remote cattle ranch (and his sex life), and Hugh Jackman as the handsome wild drover who comes to her rescue. But there's everything here from the Japanese bombing of Darwin, to the cruel and inhuman treatment of "half caste" Aboriginal children known as the Stolen Generation. The star of this show is a "creamy" called Nullah, 13 year old Brandon Walters, who also narrates. Surprisingly, he gets last billing in the production notes.

We'll also be reviewing , the first book of poetry by the young Australian poet, Emma Jones, who has already won the most prestigious Australian poetry prize for one poem in the collection about The Stolen Generation. Her verse evokes the landscape and history of Australia, and the power and pull of the sea.

Send in the Clowns, a song made famous by Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, is the most famous number from Stephen Sondheim's . It is the musical chosen by Sir Trevor Nunn for his first production of Sondheim. It is based on Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night and, at the centre of the plot, is Desiree, a beautiful Swedish actress approaching forty. She realises her parade of lovers offer an increasingly empty existence and it is time to prepare for her future with her child. Hannah Waddingham, fresh from Spamalot, takes the role and Maureen Lipman plays her wonderfully acid-tongued, old courtesan mother. The production is at the intimate in London where you are so close you think you are with the players at their country house weekend.

Another kind of country house festivity awaits in the little horror movie , reminiscent of The Omen, and Don't Look Now. It is a Christmas chiller from Tom Shankland in which two young middle-class families and a gaggle of children gather at a country home to celebrate a boozy, chaotic Christmas. But then the children are struck by a vomiting virus and start to turn on the parents... and I don't mean everyday naughtiness. I wonder if our panel were watching from behind their hands?

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Kirsty