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Melodrama

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Nov 7, 202542:07TV & Film

Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore a once-popular genre of cinema which flourished in the mid-20th Century with films like Now Voyager, Mildred Pierce and All That Heaven Allows, and is still alive and kicking today...

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Melodrama is an episode from Screenshot by BBC. Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode explore a once-popular genre of cinema which flourished in the mid-20th Century with films like Now Voyager, Mildred Pierce and All That Heaven Allows, and is st...

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Published Nov 7, 2025, 42:07 long, audio available.

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