Doctor Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster, a woman called Eva, who promptly rejects the male creature. In turn, the doctor becomes...

The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to...

In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a...

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.

David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based...

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier...

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its...

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.

Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against...

A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert.The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?

Traces the history of Anna who leaves school and becomes a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at college in Oxford.

The producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But...

A professional footballer suffers an injury which could jeopardise his career.