Outside London there are five permanent symphony orchestras – all engaged in an unending struggle for existence. Dramatised documentary Who Pays the Piper? gives an impression...
Return to the Circus: George Smiley’s quiet retirement is interrupted when messengers arrive from London Station and call upon George Smiley to come back into the game....
Original Publicity: Daphne Slater, Nigel Stock and Rupert Davies in tonight’s play – The Big Breaker – “She might just as well have stayed on the...
Name, Rank and Number: The bruised and unconscious body of submariner Lieutenant Dick Player is washed up on a beach somewhere in France. He is wearing...
Spy drama series detailing the cases of tough secret agent Quiller (Michael Jayston) who worked for a specialist government section called The Bureau. The existence of...
In Armchair Theatre drama The Pity of it All, widowed Nancy Harper (Billie Whitelaw) begins a friendship with Walter Daymer (Nigel Stock) who happens to be...
Period action adventure series The Gay Cavalier detailed the exploits of dashing cavalier Capt Claude Duval (Christian Marquand) during the 17th century. Duval was a hero...
Festival was a BBC anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. The first production was Noel Coward’s Fallen...
Lavish and thoughtful biopic that charts the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) from passionate, Puritan patriot to lonely dictator via the battlegrounds of the Civil...
Wartime thriller mini-series A Man Called Intrepid is set during the second world war when Churchill instigates the setting up of a Canadian spy ring. production...
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years was a period drama serial telling the story of Winston Churchill’s years in the political wilderness after his meteoric rise at...
In The Silent Enemy Lithuanian-born Laurence Harvey (born Larushka Mischa Skikne) stars as the real-life British navy frogman Lieutenant Crabb, whose Second World War exploits against...
Over ten years after working together on The Blue Lamp, director Basil Dearden and Dirk Bogarde teamed up again for this epochal drama – for Victim,...
Based on fact, Michael Anderson’s Oscar-nominated film The Dam Busters tells the tale of an extraordinary genius and a group of extremely brave men. At the height of...
In episode 11 the Welsh resistance have taken Caernarfon, Owen is worried that they won’t be able to hold it though. Dai and Dafydd, are convinced...