'See me, right..?'
Harrowing story of the brutal treatment inflicted on a four-year-old boy, in a typically unflinching play from GF Newman, the creator of...
By Andrew Carr. Post-Jonestown indictment of personality cults, with a sinister Simon Callow as ‘Maximillian Schreiber’, taking an assortment of gullibles under...
By Jim Hawkins and Horace Ove. Account of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege, when three black men held up a Knightsbridge Italian...
By John Byrne. First of a semi-autobiographical trilogy from the writer of Tutti Frutti, detailing the tribulations of a young man with...
By Ian Cullen and John Norton. Margaret Kelly plays a 14 year old child of a large Irish travelling family, who finds...
By Stephen Fagan. A mutually beneficial upper middle class social circle begins to exert undue pressure on two of its members.
By Robert Holman. School leaver Martyn Hesford joins the army.
By Paul Joyce. Stephen Moore and Morag Hood’s idyllic county picnic triggers off paranoid delusions in Moore of being bugged, followed and...
In 1971, eager, slightly gauche twentysomething journo William (Bill Nighy) leaves Nottingham for a tenure on a Fleet Street tabloid. After a...
Raucous goings-on and underhand gamesmanship aplenty in Brian Glover’s tale of a victory-hungry English team at the Europen Black Pudding Festival in...
By Michael Hastings. Elderly caretaker Arthur Lovegrove defends his house from ‘invasion’ by black and underprivileged council tenants. Featuring Liz Smith and...
By Chris Kewbank. Judge Patrick Troughton presides over a complex rape case.
By David Hopkins. Zena Walker stars as Dr Barbara Moore in a dramatised account of her famed Land’s End to John O’Groats...
By William McIlvanney and Bill Craig. When a salesman terminates his long-term affair, the woman in question commits suicide. Turning to drink,...
By Geoffrey Case. The romance of running a private bus company in 1920s Yorkshire is compared to the romance of the fictional...
By Derek Mahon and Jennifer Johnston. Harsh and unsentimental study of the Troubles through the eyes of an eleven year old boy...
By Carol Bunyan. Female factory workers (including Patsy Rowlands and June Brown) celebrate one of their number’s wedding in a lunch break,...
By Robert Holles. Career army man Bill Patterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs. With Timothy...
By Gilly Fraser. Pam St Clement chews the furniture as only she can, as the weary matriarch of a large working class...
By Lionel Goldstein. Polish army officer Paul Rogers kills a Nazi in WWII, then finds himself on trail in present-day West Germany,...
By Ian McEwan. In late 1940, 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter), lives a dull, stifling lower middle class existence in Frinton with...
By Jeremy Paul. John Alderton is a writer who befriends a dissident from the USSR. With John Bird and Paul Freeman
Philip Jackson has an affair with Penelope Wilton, and undergoes a protracted nervous breakdown as wife Alison Steadman and dad Jimmy Jewel...
By David Turner. Thinly-veiled autobiographical story of playwright David Purser’s alcohol-fuelled personal hell, with Dinsdale Landen.
Highly experimental two-parter from The Cheviot… writer-director and head of the 7:84 theatre company John McGrath, partially adapted from his stage play...
By Peter Ransley. A woman’s fight for compensation after a botched operation. With David ‘Science Workshop’ Hargreaves.
By Gordon Flemyng. On the eve of a conference of African leaders in Brussels, documentary maker Nick ‘Space 1999’ Tate uncovers an...
By Lesley Brice. James Laurenson engineers an awkward afternoon reunion with his 12 year old son Dorian Ford.
Curly-haired nut goes trainspotting
By Colin Haydn Evans. Richard O’Callaghan suddenly decides to go mad – much to the consternation of wife Elizabeth Sladen. With Simon...
By Bryan Forbes. Nanny Nanette Newman looks after the mute male child of a Victorian household. Written and directed by Forbes, and...
In the late-’70s Liverpool of fast-rising unemployment, a gang of tar layers strike out in an old transit for a job laying...
By Les Blair. Dramatisation of the British Brothers march into the East End Jewish quarter of Bethnal Green in 1902. Michael Maynard...
First of Alan Bleasdale’s post-Black Stuff (qv) character studies. Pete Postlethwaite runs a failing building contractor’s, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to...
By Don Haworth. A pleasant hotel restaurant is disrupted by “nice, affable gobblers” the Porters, who proceed to gorge themselves on everything...
Adaptation of the melancholc fantasy from author of Peter Pan JM Barrie, with a group of guests (including Frank Finlay and Stratford...
By Derek Lister. Trade union secretary Jimmy Jewel, caught up in an industrial dispute at a London hospital, has flashbacks to his...
By Charles Levinson and David Leland. Dramatisation of a real-life business deal between Britain and the USSR in which the UK exchanged...
Stewart Parker’s raucous, wry satire of the macho, infantile depths a gang of men can drag themselves down to, the fictional old...
By Tony Perrin. Story of the 1961 ballot rigging by the Electrician’s union to get a communist candidate elected General President. Perrin...
By Carol Bunyan. Cheeky office post boy Nicholas Ball invites co-worker Meg Davies round to his place during the lunch hour, but...
By HO Nazareth and Horace Ove. Patricia Garwood derides Bollywood romantic films as sentimental fluff until her life, including her 17 year...
By Tony Parker. Gruelling tale of a group therapy session for six ostensibly hopeless men variously sentenced to life imprisonment, and the...
By Robert Marshall. William ‘Porkins’ Hootkins is an American Academic obsessed with Monet. John ‘Boycie’ Challis also stars.
By Andrew Davies. An eponymous parent’s fund-raising social gathering after hours at a primary school brings out a few home truths for...
By Alan Clews. The wives of absentee North Sea oil rig workers start playing away.
By Nigel Williams. Pregnant career woman Susan Littler seeks advice from her neighbour Pauline Quirke.
By John Bill. Bernard Hill plays a scouse talent scout who discovers unemployed alternative comedian Max Hafler in a working men’s club...
By David Leland. Prisoners of war apparently being brutally tortured by terrorists in Northern Ireland are eventually revealed to be soldiers from...
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