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It is 1958, and the final debutante 'season'. Mary, a brilliant young writer and critic is befriended by Geraldine, a seemingly friendly young debutante of a similar age but a very different background. What starts as a friendship becomes something altogether more unsettling.
Dramatisation of Fanny Cradock's career, scripted by Brian Fillis based on interviews with her friends and family, reveals the private vulnerability behind her tart public persona. Not only a moving and insightful portrait of this enduring culinary icon, it's a black comedy about family, food and heavily-applied foundation.
oad, Mole, Rat and Badger come to life in a thrilling adventure, featuring an all-star cast as you've never seen them before.
Shy Mole (Lee Ingleby) leaves his hole one spring and is entranced by the world he discovers along the riverbank.
He makes friends with the water-loving Rat, and soon encounters Mr Toad (Matt Lucas), an enthusiastic and mischievous lover of all new things, especially fast cars.
But Toad's wild ways and his love of motoring get him into serious trouble. With the help of wise old Badger (Bob Hoskins), can the woodland friends come to his aid? Will Toad ever change his ways?
Drama based on three stories of Saki, 'The Storyteller', 'The Lumber Room' and 'Sredni Vashtar', each one telling a cruelly funny tale of children using their imagination to overcome their repressed upbringing.
This traumatic yet sometimes humorous one-off drama explores the experience of brain damage and its impact. Alan (David Tennant) and Tricia (Sarah Parish) Hamilton are blissfully happy. He's on top of his game and head of a building firm. She's a beautician and mother to their two children. One day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car. The resulting accident leaves him in a deep coma. Tricia is delighted when he awakes - only to discover the man she loved has disappeared. Tricia longs to find her husband but fears she may have lost him forever.
Black comedy drama that looks beneath the veneer of seemingly idyllic village life. Having made a fortune in the City, successful Roger and his wife, the Shrew, celebrate Roger's 43rd birthday with a dinner party for two other couples at their lavish home. While their old friends Jim and Juliet desperately aspire to a more prosperous lifestyle, village newcomers Leo and Jackie have their eyes opened to the hierarchy of the suburbs. As the evening progresses, greed and envy come to the fore.
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
A writer takes a backwards look at the life of his unlikely friend Stuart, a homeless alcoholic who experienced a traumatic event in his childhood.
Philippa Lowthorpe's fast-paced and powerful drama set in the high-octane world
of the City of London.
Jess, a high-flying banker, is sidelined in her job by her Machiavellian boss when
she returns to work after having a baby. She decides to sue the bank and ends up
risking everything, including her marriage.
The drama is inspired by in-depth interviews with women who have fought major cases in the City.
Maxwell tells the story of the final stage of the former Mirror Group Newspapers owner's life. His empire was collapsing, his marriage was in difficulties and his weight had ballooned. But that was nothing compared with the furore that occurred after his death, when it was discovered that he had taken money from the Mirror Group Newspapers pension fund to keep his companies afloat.
Drama about the relationship between two young brothers. David is a typical 15-year-old with a colourful imagination. Ben is slightly older and has Down's syndrome. When their family decide to move for the sake of Ben's education, David's growing resentment of his brother takes a macabre turn. Written by Mark Haddon, author of the best-selling novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Star-studded adaptation of Shakespeare's play. England's King Henry V, insulted by the Dauphin of France, leads his army into battle across the Channel. Along the way, the young monarch must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of Agincourt.
Drama charting the story of Daphne du Maurier's unrequited passion and showing how her inner struggles with her sexuality informed the writing of her compelling stories. It focuses on the most emotionally fraught yet creatively fertile period of the author's life: the years between the Rebecca trial and the writing of her short story The Birds.
