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Francine Stock talks to Ren茅e Zellweger and Hugh Grant about the second onscreen outing of Helen Fielding's diarist heroine Bridget Jones. We are also joined by Cherry Potter, author of I Love You But... Seven Decades of Romantic Comedy, who compares Bridget Jones with previous heroines of romantic comedy.

Number one at the US box office this week and just released in UK cinemas is The Grudge, director Takashi Shimizu's Hollywood remake of his own Japanese film Ju-on: The Grudge. The Film Programme finds out why Hollywood is so keen on replicating Japanese horror films with co-producer of The Ring Christine Iso and screenwriter Joel Jenkins.

Humphrey Jennings' biographer Kevin Jackson explains why the wartime documentary-maker is considered the poet of English cinema.