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Billy
Harrowing story of the brutal treatment inflicted on a four-year-old boy, in a typically unflinching play from GF Newman, the creator of...
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Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
By Andrew Carr. Post-Jonestown indictment of personality cults, with a sinister Simon Callow as ‘Maximillian Schreiber’, taking an assortment of gullibles under...
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138
Hole in Babylon, A
By Jim Hawkins and Horace Ove. Account of the 1975 Spaghetti House Siege, when three black men held up a Knightsbridge Italian...
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129
Slab-Boys, The
By John Byrne. First of a semi-autobiographical trilogy from the writer of Tutti Frutti, detailing the tribulations of a young man with...
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Katie: The Year of a Child
By Ian Cullen and John Norton. Margaret Kelly plays a 14 year old child of a large Irish travelling family, who finds...
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111
Network, The
By Stephen Fagan. A mutually beneficial upper middle class social circle begins to exert undue pressure on two of its members.
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Chance of a Lifetime
By Robert Holman. School leaver Martyn Hesford joins the army.
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Keep Smiling
By Paul Joyce. Stephen Moore and Morag Hood’s idyllic county picnic triggers off paranoid delusions in Moore of being bugged, followed and...
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Dreams of Leaving
In 1971, eager, slightly gauche twentysomething journo William (Bill Nighy) leaves Nottingham for a tenure on a Fleet Street tabloid. After a...
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137
Thicker Than Water
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...
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Murder Rap
By Michael Hastings. Elderly caretaker Arthur Lovegrove defends his house from ‘invasion’ by black and underprivileged council tenants. Featuring Liz Smith and...
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113
No Defence
By Chris Kewbank. Judge Patrick Troughton presides over a complex rape case.
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That Crazy Woman
By David Hopkins. Zena Walker stars as Dr Barbara Moore in a dramatised account of her famed Land’s End to John O’Groats...
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143
Gift from Nessus, A
By William McIlvanney and Bill Craig. When a salesman terminates his long-term affair, the woman in question commits suicide. Turning to drink,...
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132
Buses
By Geoffrey Case. The romance of running a private bus company in 1920s Yorkshire is compared to the romance of the fictional...
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Shadows on Our Skin
By Derek Mahon and Jennifer Johnston. Harsh and unsentimental study of the Troubles through the eyes of an eleven year old boy...
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144
Ladies
By Carol Bunyan. Female factory workers (including Patsy Rowlands and June Brown) celebrate one of their number’s wedding in a lunch break,...
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Vanishing Army, The
By Robert Holles. Career army man Bill Patterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs. With Timothy...
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Not for the Likes of Us
By Gilly Fraser. Pam St Clement chews the furniture as only she can, as the weary matriarch of a large working class...
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Executioner, The
By Lionel Goldstein. Polish army officer Paul Rogers kills a Nazi in WWII, then finds himself on trail in present-day West Germany,...
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Imitation Game, The
By Ian McEwan. In late 1940, 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter), lives a dull, stifling lower middle class existence in Frinton with...
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Walk in the Forest, A
By Jeremy Paul. John Alderton is a writer who befriends a dissident from the USSR. With John Bird and Paul Freeman
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Pasmore
Philip Jackson has an affair with Penelope Wilton, and undergoes a protracted nervous breakdown as wife Alison Steadman and dad Jimmy Jewel...
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150
C2H5OH
By David Turner. Thinly-veiled autobiographical story of playwright David Purser’s alcohol-fuelled personal hell, with Dinsdale Landen.
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Adventures of Frank, The
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...
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Minor Complications
By Peter Ransley. A woman’s fight for compensation after a botched operation. With David ‘Science Workshop’ Hargreaves.
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Number on End
By Gordon Flemyng. On the eve of a conference of African leaders in Brussels, documentary maker Nick ‘Space 1999’ Tate uncovers an...
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Jude
By Lesley Brice. James Laurenson engineers an awkward afternoon reunion with his 12 year old son Dorian Ford.
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Flipside of Dominick Hide, The
Curly-haired nut goes trainspotting
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Name for the Day
By Colin Haydn Evans. Richard O’Callaghan suddenly decides to go mad – much to the consternation of wife Elizabeth Sladen. With Simon...
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Jessie
By Bryan Forbes. Nanny Nanette Newman looks after the mute male child of a Victorian household. Written and directed by Forbes, and...
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Black Stuff, The
In the late-’70s Liverpool of fast-rising unemployment, a gang of tar layers strike out in an old transit for a job laying...
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Beyond the Pale
By Les Blair. Dramatisation of the British Brothers march into the East End Jewish quarter of Bethnal Green in 1902. Michael Maynard...
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Muscle Market, The
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...
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Brush with Mr Porter on the Road to Eldorado, A
By Don Haworth. A pleasant hotel restaurant is disrupted by “nice, affable gobblers” the Porters, who proceed to gorge themselves on everything...
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Dear Brutus
Adaptation of the melancholc fantasy from author of Peter Pan JM Barrie, with a group of guests (including Frank Finlay and Stratford...
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Cause, The
By Derek Lister. Trade union secretary Jimmy Jewel, caught up in an industrial dispute at a London hospital, has flashbacks to his...
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146
Beloved Enemy
By Charles Levinson and David Leland. Dramatisation of a real-life business deal between Britain and the USSR in which the UK exchanged...
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Kamikaze Gound Staff Reunion Dinner, The
Stewart Parker’s raucous, wry satire of the macho, infantile depths a gang of men can drag themselves down to, the fictional old...
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Union, The
By Tony Perrin. Story of the 1961 ballot rigging by the Electrician’s union to get a communist candidate elected General President. Perrin...
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Sorry
By Carol Bunyan. Cheeky office post boy Nicholas Ball invites co-worker Meg Davies round to his place during the lunch hour, but...
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149
Garland, The
By HO Nazareth and Horace Ove. Patricia Garwood derides Bollywood romantic films as sentimental fluff until her life, including her 17 year...
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Sin Bin, The
By Tony Parker. Gruelling tale of a group therapy session for six ostensibly hopeless men variously sentenced to life imprisonment, and the...
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Before Water Lillies
By Robert Marshall. William ‘Porkins’ Hootkins is an American Academic obsessed with Monet. John ‘Boycie’ Challis also stars.
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Bavarian Night
By Andrew Davies. An eponymous parent’s fund-raising social gathering after hours at a primary school brings out a few home truths for...
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138
Good-Time Girls, The
By Alan Clews. The wives of absentee North Sea oil rig workers start playing away.
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Baby Talk
By Nigel Williams. Pregnant career woman Susan Littler seeks advice from her neighbour Pauline Quirke.
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Turn for the Worse, A
By John Bill. Bernard Hill plays a scouse talent scout who discovers unemployed alternative comedian Max Hafler in a working men’s club...
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Psy-Warriors
By David Leland. Prisoners of war apparently being brutally tortured by terrorists in Northern Ireland are eventually revealed to be soldiers from...