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- Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite.
- Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
- The murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies.
- Televised adaptation of Moliere's play with Antony Sher in the title role of Tartuffe.
- Ten years after leaving school, Cox, bullied and constantly humiliated in his schooldays, seeks out his former classmates in order to be revenged.
- Romance lifts a sister from a lively family in working-class Newcastle during World War II.
- Comedy drama centred around a group of removal men, and their mishaps as they move the contents of people's houses to their new homes. A spin-off by Jack Rosenthal from his film The Chain (1984).
- One man's journey through the theatre.
- Eustace (Sir Ian Holm) and Dorrie Edgehill (Dame Judi Dench) have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?
- A stoic historian rents a lodge for the summer in the idyllic Irish countryside to finish his biography of Sir Isaac Newton, but his attention refocuses on his landlords, the dysfunctional lower-upper class Lawless family.
- In 1940's England, a young playwright is getting his first play produced by an important director. But the director wants to get a temperamental actress for the lead. And when Lorraine Barry arrives at the first reading, the battle is begun between director and star, with the poor playwright caught in the middle.
- This is a TV adaptation of a 1993 opera entitled "Rosa," with a libretto by Greenaway and score by Louis Andriessen. "Rosa" is the first in a projected series of 10 operas, each dealing with the death of a famous composer - some real (Anton Webern, Jean-Baptiste Lully, John Lennon), others fictional. "Rosa" falls into the latter category; it tells the story of Juan Manuel de Rosa, a Brazilian who went to study music in America but spent most of his time in the cinema instead, becoming particularly entranced by Westerns. Now 32 years old and residing in an abandoned Uraguayan slaughterhouse, Rosa has become one of Hollywood's foremost composers, specializing in (what else?) Westerns. He also has a beautiful 19-year-old fiancee, Esmeralda, but he pays her little heed, instead lavishing his attentions on a black mare named Bola. One day, a group of men attired as cowboys arrive at the abattoir and kill both Rosa and Bola; an investigation is conducted, with particular suspicion!
- Married assistant librarian John Lewis 's mainstay is fantasy, until Mrs Gruffydd -Williams enters his life with interests and offers decidedly non-literary.
- Cleaning woman and war widow Hilda Capper realizes on her birthday that her life is better than that of her employers.
- George Banks (Sir Tom Courtenay) recalls his past life travelling in charge of a dancing troupe.
- The National Theatre's production of the medieval English mystery plays, filmed in the midst of the audience, telling the Bible story from the creation to the last judgement.
- Tribute to the comedian, Max Miller. Miller's story is told as a part of his act, weaving biographical details amongst the gags and songs.
- Filmed a year before the author's death in 1989, these special studio recordings of Eh Joe, Footfalls, and Rockaby are brief, concentrated, and pared down to the absolute essentials, even to the exclusion of colour are the definitive productions, made in close collaboration with the Nobel Laureate himself and featuring his favourite and most-trusted actress, Billie Whitelaw. Together these plays explore the themes of consciousness and self-image in Beckett's inimitable style.
- Asif begins a new job, with Elite Removals, joining Bamber, Adrenalin and Nick in the "The African Queen". Their first job is to move Mr and Mrs Bates to Brighton but their schedule is thrown in to chaos when he vows to stay.
- Spectacle v. Language in the 17th Century.
- What made Jesus Jesus? How did his life and teachings reflect his Jewish roots-and break away from them? Prepare for a fresh look at Jesus that will bring you closer than ever to the dawn of a spiritual figure-and revolution-that would change the world.