Act of God: When dense smog cripples London for days and creates a serious health hazard, Churchill’s inaction leaves him vulnerable to his political enemies. guest...
Smoke and Mirrors: Elizabeth rejects protocol by appointing Philip to coordinate her coronation, but his ideas create conflict. The Duke of Windsor returns to London. guest...
The kind of lavish high gloss period piece that the BBC do best, Ballet Shoes, based on the much loved Noel Streatfield novel, was one of...
An Age of Kings was the ambitious dramatisation of five Shakespearean plays as a historical project. In An Age of Kings, the kings in question were...
A key entry in The Wednesday Play strand, Fable turned the tables on the issue of apartheid with the setting of Britain that is a totalitarian...
An anthology series of straight to camera monologues. Bennett performed himself as did other favourites of his including Maggie Smith, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters,...
1920’s set Period drama Vita and Virginia tells the never less than fascinating true story about the love affair between socialite and popular author Vita Sackville-West...
As he showed in such films as Nashville and M*A*S*H , Robert Altman is one of the handful of directors comfortable working with large casts yet...
Dramatisation of the later life of poet Philip Larkin from his days as a Librarian at Hull University in the 1950s to his death in 1985...
‘This house is going to see such life!’ Beloved 1970’s drama series Upstairs Downstairs is given a sumptuous new revival in this BBC production. It’s 1936...