Ligmalion: Or How to Help Yourself in Self-Help Britain 1985
Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.
Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.
British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.
BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
A team of soldiers breaks into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission, they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. That's the plan, at least
After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.
A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern animals into the far future.
A disillusioned antiques dealer takes tap dancing lessons.
A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
A woman ruminates about her ex-partner. He is involved in a new relationship. She is alone.
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.
Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair.
Members of a shadowy group demonstrate techniques of enhanced Interrogation of terrorist suspects. However, the demonstration causes consternation that such techniques were approved.
A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.
Angie, an unemployed single mother moves into a new rented home. She then receives an unwelcome visitor from her past.
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he guess someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He complains to her about the state of modern society, but his own problems are about to worsen...