Forty years ago, broadcasting legend Bernard Braden recorded more than 350 interviews with the most iconic and recognised faces of the 1960s from the worlds of show business, film, politics and sport. Viewers will have unique access to the extraordinary, revealing portraits of iconic 60s names, such as Cilla Black, Robert Maxwell, Lulu, Enoch Powell, Quentin Crisp and Sean Conn...
Life is treating self-confident and opend-minded Max (Stephen Mangan) very good. As the first born of a wealthy Jewish family he doesn’t need to worry about money. He loves his girl friend and can imagine sharing his life with her. Everything could easily just continue the way it is if there wouldn’t be the sudden doubts, the diffused emotions of inner emptiness and the urge f...
Play for Today: Season 9, Episode 4
John Thaw plays Vinny Mathews a small time boxing promoter who struggles with his conscience as to whether or not to provide a fighter for a Sporting Club promotion, a fighter he knows is unfit against an opponent who is way out of his league. However Mathews needs sponsorship and this would be the ideal opportunity to mix with the "frilly sh...
两个老太太写信拌嘴，绵里藏针笑里藏刀为点小事要写好几封信争执不休，但是信末还不忘记 kiss kiss
Based on the books and Radio 4 series written by Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield, Ladies of Letters transfers to the small screen in this new 10-part adaptation.
Irene (Lipman) and Vera (Reid) meet at Vera’s daughter’s wedding and begin a correspondence that, beneath a veneer of civility, hides a constant battle of one-upmansh...
Angela Carter’s surreal imagination produced some of the most dazzling fiction of the last century.
Pioneering her own distinctive brand of magic realism, works like The Magic Toyshop and Nights At The Circus cracked open the middle-class conventions of the post-war novel and influenced a new generation of writers.
Yet in her lifetime Carter’s fierce politics, frank exploration...
Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, wakes up in his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect. After the metamorphosis, he becomes confined to his room and neglected by his family.
Jane Lucas is an agony aunt, who is highly successful in her career working at radio call-in show (for Happening Radio 242) in London and for magazine Person, but whose personal life is a shambles. Her Jewish mother, Bea, interferes in all aspects of her life and her psychiatrist Christian husband Laurence is unreliable, all the people she works with are tireless self-promoter...
Joyce Grenfell – Comedy With Breeding is a British documentary first shown in 2007
In many ways Joyce Grenfell was the pioneer of British female comedy.
Through her radio broadcasts, her St Trinian's films, and her regular appearances on BBC TV's Face the Music, Joyce was one of the most popular and enduring performers of her generation.
But who was Joyce Grenfell and what was ...
On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund, and the alcoholism and debauchery of the older son Jamie. As day turns into night, guilt, anger, despair, and regret threaten to destroy the family
