FILM CHOICES

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, 12.05pm, BBC2

SENTIMENTALLY handled love story set in Hong Kong in 1949, with William Holden

falling for Jennifer Jones’s (both pictured) mixed-race doctor. It inspired a Sixties soap opera and boasts sumptuously saturated visuals, which sums up the tone nicely — subtlety is not the order of the day.