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- Examining the history of Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula" and the controversy in Romania regarding its release
- The Third Proposal Synopsis for the feature film Murdered for loving the wrong man, "The Third Proposal" is a drama based on the honour killing of Samaira Nazir in 2005 and the subsequent fight for justice by convicting her family of killers. In a small house in Sparkhill, Birmingham, a young woman called Samaira Nazir, staggers along the hallway, bloody from a vicious attack, desperately trying to reach the front door and escape. Terror is in her eyes. So close, so close as she reaches the front door. As her bloody fingers reach the lock, we move back in time to reveal the events that led to this tragic night. Five years earlier. Salman is a twenty-one year old Afghan asylum seeker. All he wants is the security of a new life away from his war torn homeland. He thinks he's found it with a new job for a man called Azhar, and a new friend in the son Azhir. It should be the start of something new and amazing. Until he sees Azhar's daughter Samaira. It's as close to love at first sight as it can be. But this is the daughter of a respected businessman and Salman is from the wrong country and the wrong class. In no uncertain terms is he told that this is a relationship that can never be. He has to accept that this is how things are in England and in life. With a new job, no matter how menial, and somewhere basic to stay, Salman's new life begins and, for the first time, he sees hope. Five years later and all of the family warnings weren't listened to. Salman and Samaira are in love and are together. She's a graduate looking to build a life of her own. Strong-willed, intelligent and independent, Samaira has met the man she loves. Salman feels the same way. He proposes. She says yes. It should be so simple, but how to tell her family? A family that have had enough of her humiliating them. Twice the family have travelled to Pakistan to find Samaira a husband for an arranged marriage. Twice she has said no. Twice, in the family's eyes, has she humiliated them. There will not be a third time. They will take her back to Pakistan and she will marry who they tell her to. There will be no third refusal. Her mother Irshad has no sympathy for her daughter. To her, there is no such thing as love, only honour and family requirement. Samaira's protests are met with only indifference and anger from her family. She will marry who they say and that is that. Salman is full of joy and hope. His dreams of marrying the woman he loves are coming true, much to the joy of his kind father Salim, who remembers only to clearly the death of his own wife in a bombing raid in Afghanistan. That his son has found happiness brings the old man only warmth and contentment, the opposite of Samaira's family, who see their daughter as a growing problem and potential embarrassment to the family. Finding the courage, Samaira informs her family that she has accepted Salman's proposal of marriage. It is a flame to dynamite. Her family's outrage is clear and the threats are clear: she is not to marry Salman, she is not to humiliate her family. She will leave for Pakistan immediately and never see Salman again. Devastated and a prisoner in her own home, Samaira can only hope that she can persuade her family to reconsider. But, her family aren't going to change their minds. Salman is a threat that must be dealt with. Azhar is a worried man, who knows only the old ways. Azhir, the bullying, dutiful son is the perfect tool to carry out what needs to be done. Violent threat is the only language that they understand. Salman, the good man. The decent man. The man in love. If only his words of respect and decency could convince Azhar and Azhir of his love and good intentions for Samaira? His words been nothing as he confronted and offered a bribe to leave Samaira alone. When a bribe doesn't work, physical assault is the next approach. Salman's injuries horrify and disgust Samaira, who sees clearly exactly what her family are capable of. Most of all, she's acred that Salman's changed his mind about her. He hasn't. Nothing will change the fact that he loves her and wants to marry her. As they spend days together, enjoying the simple moments life has to offer, Azhar and Azhir plot. The flight is booked and Samaira will be forced to go to Pakistan within days. It takes courage, bravery and strength to stand up to a family like Samaira's, but she does. She won't be threatened, she won't be bullied and she won't be forced to abandon the man she loves. Samaira rejects her family's demands. She will marry Salman, whether they like it or not. These words are the final straw for Azhar and Azhir. They know that their daughter will be obey them. They fear the humiliation. The decision is made: if Samaira will not be agreeable, then she must die. The night of the murder is calculated. Samaira expects a simple family conversation in which she can appeal to to their sense of family love. She's wrong. Her expectations are misjudged, misguided perhaps? It is an ambush. Only when it is too late does Samaira realise the family plan. When it comes, it's quick and brutal as Azhar and his cousin Imran murder Samaira. In front of her mother and father, Samaira fights for her life. But, she has no chance. Bloody and dying, she almost reaches the front door. So close are her fingers to the lock, but close isn't close enough as Azhir kills her. Alone, she dies. Alone with the family watching her. So sad that they didn't care as much as the neighbours as the police ring the bell and discover the bloody crime scene. The dead, young, innocent girl and the family full of excuses and outdated reason. Justice is a strange thing. It means different things to different people. Some escape it, others strive for it. The arrested family's excuses count for nothing as the police seek prosecution. But, it's united we kill and divided we fall as Azhar flees to Pakistan, leaving his wife, son and nephew to carry the can for Samaira's murder. It was all in the name of honour, they claim. As Azhar and Imran are convicted, Irshad released, and Azhar nowhere to be found, Salman asks where is the justice? Struggling with grief and anger, he seeks revenge. Confronting Irshad, he has the chance to kill her. To satisfy his rage. But, what would revenge achieve? To become the same as people like Azhar? In his heart, Salman must find the love and purity that he saw in Samaira. Only then, can he live a life of decency and reason. In Irshad he sees another victim of the behaviour and moral laws of people like Azhar. A pathetic, empty shell of a woman abandoned and left with nothing. How easy it would be for Salman to take her life. How easy to buy into the eye for an eye sense of justice. Salman's better than that. Choosing not to take the road of revenge, he carries on his life with true honour. Honouring the memory of the girl he loved. The woman he would have married.
- A documentary about Shrieve's House in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, considered to be one of the most haunted houses in the UK.
- 1936. Hitler is in power and the Nazis begin their expansion across an unsuspecting Europe. Stung by their lack of preparation in the build up to the First World War, the British Government knows that it cannot afford to repeat its past mistakes and turns to the automobile industry to produce the weapons of war required to stop the Nazi threat in World War Two. In this new documentary, experts and eyewitnesses reveal the history and workings of the scheme that resulted in the production of Britain's greatest war machines including the Spitfire, Lancaster, Mosquito and Halifax airplanes, and tanks such as the Churchill and Crusader. With exclusive new interviews, as well as archive footage and images from the Imperial War Museum, National Motor Museum Beaulieu, London Transport Museum and Heritage Motor Centre Gaydon, "The Shadow Scheme" also includes an extensive collection of digitized photographs, seen here for the first time, from the archives of The Coventry Transport Museum, revealing the history and people that made the Shadow Scheme a vital part of Britain's war effort. From director Dave Mitchell, "The Shadow Scheme" is the most complete documentary to date on one of the most fascinating stories from the Second World War.