In The Wednesday Play entry The Navigators Alicia (Andree Melly) and her mother Enid (Patience Collier) become involved with two burly navvies who are working close...
God Speed Co-operation was a one off drama documentary about the history of the Women’s Co-operative Guild. Beginning in the second half of the 19th century...
An Englishman’s Castle was a trilogy of plays with an alternative history theme. In a Britain that saw Germany triumph in world war two producer Peter...
First seen on the BBC in 2001 Perfect Strangers is a kind of postmark to Poliakoff’s previous TV work Shooting the Past (a masterful work also)...
In period BBC drama serial North and South, Margaret Hale’s (Rosalind Shanks) family is forced to move from their comfortable life in the South to the...
In Who’s Been Eating My Porridge?, the second episode of The Challengers, Killane gets his first real chance to prove himself as an MP when there...
A Scotland Yard special investigator (Christopher Lee) discovers that the wealthy trustees of an exclusive orphanage are transplanting their personalities into children to ensure a second...
In 18th-century England, accomplished socialite Emma Woodhouse (Gwyneth Paltrow) turns to matchmaking. Her targets are lowly Harriet Smith (Toni Colette) and the vicar, Mr Elton (Alan...
In lavishly mounted and engagingly performed historical romance Young Bess, Jean Simmons plays the young princess who would become Elizabeth I. She deals with the heartbreak...
A strong contender for the best British movie ever made, this devastating fantasy has ceded little impact and continues to champion the merits of the Archers’...
Released in America with the somewhat less ambigious title of Burn, Witch, Burn, Peter Wyngarde plays a hard-headed psychology lecturer who slowly begins to realise that...
Controversial at the time of its release, this adaptation of Rumer Godden’s book Black Narcissus became a Technicolor classic (note the Academy Award-winning production design and...
Portrait of a Marriage took us to the ’20s and ’30s where diplomat and politician Sir Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet and creator of...
In We’re The Bosses Now David is seriously considering a partnership with Andrew Retford but there are more than a few things to iron out first....
UK / BBC2 / 10×50 minute episodes / 2001 (First Episode: Wednesday 10 January 9.00pm) Writer: Kevin Hood / Novel: Tim Pears / Producer: Claire Hisch...