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- Ronnie Corbett finds himself a publican when screen wife Rosemary Leach inherits "The Prince of Denmark".
- Explores the fragments of a city frozen in time by the building of the Wall. Michael Frayn lives out his strong feelings for West Berlin, the industrial city without raw materials, the center of events unsettled by a foreign country, the cabaret monopoly that was demolished by an anti-human ideology and remained after its collapse were mostly memories.
- BBC TV special interviews Gene Kelly about his life and career.
- A five part series in which writers of Science Fiction talk about their work - the imaginative futures that are becoming the characteristic literature of our technological age.
- A documentary on the Battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, from the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War, written and presented by Kenneth Griffith. Mr. Griffith, a Welshman, presents the history of British politics and policies which led to the confrontation between the British Army and the Zulus, reading letters from the soldiers, diary entries from the officers, as well as observations from the Zulu warriors and their king.
- Blondie perform live in 1979 at the Apollo Theatre in Glasgow. Classics such as Heart of Glass, Hanging on the Telephone and Sunday Girl are performed.
- Bernard Malamud in conversation with Robert Robinson.
- Dramatized life story of blind and deaf Cornish poet Jack Clemo.
- History of a Jewish family, the Oppermanns, in Berlin at the end of 1932, after Hitler has become the leader of Germany's strongest political party.
- Mr and Mrs Todd run an extraordinary luxury hotel - too much food, drink and violent exercise. Stephen Daker and his girlfriend, Lyn, arrive for an unusual weekend.
- 1959–199450mTV EpisodeFour-part documentary in which Alan Whicker interviews his fellow passengers on a three-month cruise in the Pacific.
- Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that.
- On four nights in the summer of 1985 Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band filled to capacity the Los Angeles Coliseum, home of the 1984 Olympics. It was the culmination of a 16-month world tour, during which Bom in the USA became the CBS label's biggest-selling album of all time. In this world-exclusive interview, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band talk to David Hepworth , with extracts from 14 previously unseen performances including 'Sandy' from Springsteen's English debut performance at the Hammersmith Odeon concert in 1975.
- Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
- In early 1980s Buenos Aires, a struggling movie theater owner takes in a roommate but suspects he is responsible for a series of political assassinations.
- Linda's out on her hen night, her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married, when both groups arrive at a club, to find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide. Does she stay and settle down, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
- The film is about revisiting the locations of the world-famous Russian novel 'Moscow-Petushki' by Venedikt Yerofeyev. At the consecutive railway stations, passengers recall the writer who used to travel with them. The shocking image of drunken Russia is accompanied by quotes from the novel.
- In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighboring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.
- Seven innocent people are accused of murdering a politician.
- McIlvanney's reworking of his short story, from "Walking Wounded" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989). Sammy Nelson envisions 'alternatives' to the realities of his day, as he moves from home to Job Centre to home again.
- A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Spall finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.
- In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favor in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.
- A family is affected very greatly by their Alsatian dog Prince.
- An adaptation of Roberto Cossa's Argentinian drama, the play focuses on a family desperately struggling against inflation and unemployment while trying to assuage the insatiable appetite of their 100-year old grandmother.
- Four English women, after World War I, who are unhappy with their lives, and their time away on vacation in a beautiful Italian villa.
- The friendship of a young boy and an old Polish emigre as they struggle to re-create 'the smallest show on earth' - a flea circus.
- The Grass Arena is a biopic based on the autobiography of John Healy. Raised in an ultra religious family, with an abusive father, young Johnny soon learns that he has to learn to defend himself. He takes up boxing, but soon falls victim to alcoholism. His boxing career over, John takes to the Grass Arena (the park) where he lives with other alcoholics. Things only get worse, until he learns about the game of chess.
- Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. He meets up with an old mutual friend, Orlik, who tells him about the Baron's past, his struggle to keep his collection intact, while Fisher struggles to discover what happened to the collection.
- A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
- A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she meets a mysterious American, but then her son gets involved with a violent political group.
- A German woman takes on her husband's identity after his death, and spends the next 40 years impersonating him.
- The story about the man who made 11 local boys into The Libon Lions
- The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.