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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20061027
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FILM: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, 1.30pm, Five

A MADE-for-tv adaptation of Harriet Beecher Stowe's touching story of two slaves (Phylicia Rashad and Avery Brooks) bearing injustice with all the dignity they can muster.

It's still powerful, though now, unaccountably, unfashionable.

THE REAL COST OF DIVORCE, 7pm, BBC2

WITH almost half of all marriages failing, reporter Max Flint investigates the cost of divorce.

And it's totting up. Recent landmark cases, such as Miller v Miller, have made divorce a lucrative option for the poorer spouse - housewife Melissa Miller was ...

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