it was the marching tune written for soldiers in the first world war, becoming one of the most famous songs of its time and which still endures today. penned in 1915, pack up your troubles was the work of two brothers, felix and george powell, both music hall stars. but their story began here in st asaph‘s cathedral. where a new orchestral version of the wartime hit has been created — commissioned to celebrate the powell brothers' connection with the area and to remember the end of the great war 100 years ago. look carefully in the choir stalls and you can just about make out the young felix powell's name. he and his brother george were both choristers here. today, two other brothers, jonathan and robert guy, sit in their place.

they've been working on the new commission. it's easy to forget sometimes that... because it was written a long time ago, you think it's old and it's not relevant. but actually, by doing this process, we've had to put ourselves right in the shoes of the brothers and think through their eyes and ears. we hope that's a product that people will hear when they come to the concert. this is the original sheet music and it is signed by felix powell here, my grandfather. a family archive of the powell brothers' achievement still survives but the success of the song was also tainted by sadness. i'm very proud of my grandfather's work and i think he would be proud, too, to think that 100 years on, that this song was still so iconic. however, i think he felt guilty about the song because he'd seen, at the front line in the first world war, so many soldiers marching to his songs, going into battle and dying. i think that affected him greatly.

a veiled smile, composed byjonathan guy and conducted by his brother robert, will be premiered in the cathedral tomorrow night, taking the story of the powell brothers to a new audience. sian lloyd, bbc news, st asaph. now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. hello, mark. hi. what have you been watching? it is a very good week. we have the the wife, which is a drama starring glenn close and jonathan pryce.

we have skate kitchen, which is a drama that looks more like a documentary. and black ‘47, a brooding irish western. the wife — i am so looking forward to hearing about this. i think it is really interesting. adapted from meg wolitzer‘s novel set in the early 90s, jonathan pryce is an acclaimed author, who wakes up to a phone call saying that he has won the nobel prize. glenn close is his wifejoan, who we see supporting him, looking after him, basically making sure that everything is in the right place. she is told very specifically by the nobel committee — your husband is going to be besieged by newspapers, do try to keep him one removed from it. and she says — trust me, i will look after him. but there is something behind that, that's a little bit darker. here is a clip. hello, hal. hello, joan. you're looking lovely as always. thank you, hal.

that's very sweet. the new york times is here. really? tell her. they're giving your husband the cover of the sunday magazine. they're knocking out a story about bill clinton for him. it's going to be like one of those shots with all the portraiture showing. every brilliant one of them, my friend. laughter. oh, god, this is so unreal. how do i look? you're fine. no crumbs, no tears, all good? nope, nope. all good. 0h, john. ——0h, joan. tell me this isn't some great, big, fatjoke. it's all real, darling. breathe. ah. joan, come on, we're waiting for you. come on, let's do this. now, that look at the end. glenn close is one of those people who, with a single look can tell a thousand contradictory stories. so what then happens is — they go to stockholm to get the nobel prize and then we flash back to the 1950s when they first

met where she was a very promising writer and he was a professor. she has put her writing career on hold in order to service his. perhaps there is something more behind that. it turns out he is a philanderer, he is somebody who is unable to praise their son who is also an aspiring writer. gradually, we start to discover the backstory of this relationship and we start to see the stress lines in the marriage. what i like about this is glenn close‘s central performance is brilliant the first time i saw this film. the second time, having seen all the things that the narrative uncovers, it's even more impressive because you realise there are so many moments in which the camera literallyjust looks at glenn close‘s face and it's telling you so many different things. yes, she's proud, but there is something else going on behind that. there is some unrevealed story. meanwhile, there's a high biographer, played by christian slater, who is scratching at the surface of what he thinks is a underlying malaise of the marriage. it's really, really well—judged.

i saw it twice in two days... wow. ..and the second time, i thought, what i thought was a great performance is a really, really great performance. in many ways, it's understatement is the thing that may stop it from getting huge awards and recognition. so much of what glenn close does is show don't tell. but it's very contained, but i think... and the timing, politically, the whole narrative behind that is just so interesting, isn't it? it could not have been better timed. to be honest with you, i think we could have watched this film at any time. there are great performances. jonathan pryce is absolutely terrific. it is very well directed. unfussily directed. letting the actors have their space and letting them tell their story. i loved it. and i think you will really, really like it. i cannot wait. good. skate kitchen, from everything i have seen and read i can't work out if this is a drama or a documentary. it is a drama by crystal moselle who made the wolfpack, which was a documentary about the family who were living in the apartment in which they basically had never

gone out or done anything except for movies. this is a drama with a documentary edge about a group of skater girls of the lower eastside manhattan streets. many of them are nonprofessionals playing very close to home, although we do have jaden smith who crops up halfway through and, i think, integrates very well with the other actors. what i liked about this, some people said because it has that gritty edge, they have compared it to that film kids. they could not be further apart. kids was this leering, look at all these young kids and these skater kids and look at all the terrible things they are doing. it was described brilliantly by one critic as a "right—wing rabble rousing tell—me—off—a—thon". this is completely the opposite. this is much more like that french film girlhood. it's about the relationships between these young women in these skater groups. the skating does look horribly real, as much as every time they fall off, it looks like they're really hurting themselves. i thought it was really good. it had a proper gritty filter it, but very tender and very sympathetic towards its heroines.

i thought it was really impressive. hm. it's a good week. it's sounding like a good week. take us into film number three. does that make it also a good week? it does, it is a hat trick. i am not giving a thumbs down to anything. this is black ‘47, which is a drama directed by lance daly, which takes inspiration from an acclaimed short film of 2008. the title is named after the worst year of the great irish famine. and at the beginning we see an ex—ranger deserter who returns home to see his mother has been starved, his brother has been hanged for stabbing a bailiff who was trying to evict them, and he sets off on a path of vengeance. here's a clip. i understand that i may further bolster your sense of injustice to blame me for your brother's demise. but i do not call the crops to fail. and i am not responsible for people breaking the law.

i am merely a servant of the court. i bid you good day. so on the one hand, it's a drama rooted in history and it has a very, very serious side to it. 0n the other hand, it's a story told like a western. it has a real western suite to it. he is being pursued by a character being played by hugo weaving. the ensemble cast includes jim broadbent, barry keoghan, stephen rea. a really fine ensemble cast. what i liked about it was it takes this very serious and difficult subject and turns it into something cinematic. we get this very cinematic narrative playing out in a landscape that any cinema—goer could understand. the film looks terrific. it is beautifully shot.

it is a brooding score by brian byrne. it is fairly low budget and occasionally you can see the edges of the budget. frankly, the flaws are easily outweighed by the things that are right about it. it was sincere, and impressive and gripping. it has a real tone and a mood to it. i love it when a film feels like it is engulfing you in a world. i really thought this did. visually it looks terrific. yeah. it is well documented that i am not good with violence, which you will appreciate makes me slightly nervous about this one. i think you would be fine with this because i think this story, the narrative carries it through and the violence isn't in any way gratuitous. it's all part of the narrative. i think you'd be fine with it. hm. you do not trust me an inch, do you? i'm so sorry. i refer you to a conversation about the little stranger. but that is for another time. it wasn't that scary.

it was scary. not really a scary film. 0k. anyway. tune into previous editions to see about the little stranger. best out this week. i'm flying the flag for wajib again. this was the palestinian entry for the foreign language film 0scar. didn't get nominated, but is really terrific. it is a story about a father and son travelling around nazareth in the run—up to christmas, and they're taking out wedding invitations, but whilst they're in the car together they're bickering and falling apart. and you see the schisms in their relationship. the father and son are played by a real—life father and son. i thought it was terrific. it has a great air of naturalism. it's funny, but also poignant, it's personal and political at the same time. it's a very small film, you have to seek it out. it's not a wide release, but it is well worth finding. wajib — i thought it was terrific. dvd to recommend this week? a prayer before dawn. it's a true story of an english boxer in a notorious thailand prison. brilliant performance byjoe cole. this is irected byjean—st phane sauvaire who made a movie i reviewed here on the show a while ago called johnny mad dog.

it is one of those films that is all to do with the atmosphere. you feel like you are in this situation with him. you know the things — sometimes you feel that you can almost smell a movie? you can feel the environment? it's a tough watch. i think it is one that you might find hard to watch. i thought it was a very impressive, if rather difficult, film. mm, 0k. what i'm fascinated by this week is what on earth you're going to pick up next week. what a cracking selection. you could choose any of them. how fabulous that we've had a week in which there are this many good and diverse films to choose from. it is lovely. that's the joy of cinema. a little stranger is not that scary. i'm sorry, itjust isn't. no, but i was very, very stressed for the whole film. i thought ruth wilson was sensational, but god, i was stressed. a few people have had some sympathy for me on twitter on this one. thank you very much. let's see what you find

for me next week. a really cracking week. enjoy your cinema going. all of our previous programmes are on the iplayer. i'm sure you know the address. bbc. co. uk/markkermode. enjoy your cinema going. see you next time. thanks for being with us. bye— bye. good evening. a coolerfeel good evening. a cooler feel right across the country but at least there were some spells of sunshine to compensate. quite a lot across england and wales. thicker cloud into northern ireland and scotland. the arrival of a weather front through the night tonight, the cloud will continue to thicken and he wins will continue to thicken and he wins will start to pick up as well. your temperatures are holding up, but elsewhere with those clear skies, low single figures are not out of the question. a touch of frost quite possible and maybe some mist patches through the midlands, east anglia and the southeast corner. there will be some lovely spells of sunshine from the word go across the bulk of the country. the cloud thickens,

winds strengthened. it will be outbreaks of rain into the western isles, northwest of scotland and nothing to be northern isles, too. highs of 12—18d. this seeks its way slowly south, we getting all the time. they been of cloud making it through the midlands and into parts of wales on sunday. for the start of the new month, it looks cooler but largely dry. this is bbc world news today, i'm i'm lukwesa burak. the us senatejudiciary committee approves president trump's supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. but they've agreed to wait for a full vote of the senate, after a republican senator called for an fbi investigation into allegations of sexual assault against him. i think it would be proper to delay the floor vote for up to, but not more than one week, in order to let the fbi continue the president says he has no intention of of replacing

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