THE KING’S SPEECH

2010 BBC Four, 9pm

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Tom Hooper’s stirring film about the future George VI’s struggle to overcome his stammer in the nation’s hour of need won multiple Oscars, including a deserved Best

Actor for Colin Firth. But it’s his double-act with Geoffrey Rush, who stars as the

King’s speech therapist Lionel Logue, that gives the film its heart, and the doublehanders between them, courtesy of screenwriter David Seidler, are fraught and fascinating. You’ll need tissues.