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- The unexpected arrival of a blind man complicates a murder plot by adulterous lovers.
- What is the monstrous plot against Laura Fairlie? An artist must find out.
- Two childhood friends reunite after years of being apart. They have both gone through some tough times and are looking to re-live the good times. However, things take a dark turn when they fall into the world of drugs alcohol and relationships with bad people. One friend is struggling with addiction and the other is in a toxic relationship. They must navigate through this world together and try to come out on the other side to save their sanity and their lives.
- A television dance program, The Owl and the Pussycat was a modern jazz ballet choreographed by Gillian Lynne based on Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense poem of the same name. It was a West Region BBC production that was directed by John Irving. The BBC Television Service began broadcasting in November, 1936 and ended in April, 1964.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- A publishing house ask Nigel Strangeways to look into a scandal involving General Thorseby's new book which is considered libelous but instead it's murder.
- At the end of a long party, a woman is embarrassed because her husband has not arrived to collect her, as promised. Her hosts have to go, and leave her there. That's when the strange things begin to happen.
- "Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
- "The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
- "The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
- "Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
- "The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).
- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)
- A young girl, around 13, is home alone. The scene starts with this young girl admiring herself in front of a mirror and in the background a mans face appears in the window. He is about 40 years old. He knocks on the door which she hesitantly opens and after a while of talking he let's himself in telling her he is the gardener. The play focuses on who this man really is and why he is in her home
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- A working-class boy gets a scholarship to a public school.
- Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
- A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.