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Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparently delusional young woman and her invalid father.
On a remote Cornish coast, a small group of scientists at an out of the way research laboratory delve into the mystery of what happens at the moment of death.
An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.
Teenager Diane Weaver lives with her abusive single father. A religious local boy is the only who wants to be her friend, but she doesn't like him as much as he does her. What no one realises is how far the abuse goes.
Lawrence Hastings , retired prep school headmaster, has few pleasures in life. One is flying a kite, until this too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy.
'An Englishman thinks automatically in terms of class. It's an occupational hazard. He can no more control it than lick his own tongue.'
'You said I'm a teacher as if that makes me into a boss. I'm just someone who has to be here, same as you.' Redfern, a student teacher, thinks today's educational system is all wrong...
' Whatever you think of me doesn't change what you are. Rabble who've heard of socialism and think it's ten pints a night. Go on, vote me out ...' with the GYRLAIS MALE VOICE CHOIR
'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat and sleep and be happy. But the rules of the game say before you can do that you've got to start a firm. Employ people. Turn it into a career. I like architecture. I hate careers. The minute you make it a career you build a ladder and people want to climb it. Sometimes they stand on your fingers. It's hard to draw with flattened fingers. Spoils your draughtsmanship.'
'Listen Dad, it's me, Tom. I know you recognise me. Why don't you speak? Just say my name. Tom.' Dad's bewildering silence forces the family to face truths they would rather forget.
' Dear Alan ... I'm still in the old job, His Excellency's most excellent chauffeur.... '
"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomena!?
A pair of childhood sweethearts have their peaceful life interrupted when a vulgar woman from her dreams show up in reality.
Hans Daedalus has defected from East Germany to the West. Is it possible that his opacity equations live on after his death?
'Stones and curses go together.' A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.
An ordinary man suddenly finds that he has psychic powers.
A play about the (celibate) relationship between the unknown writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous, but drug-addicted, actress.
A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov. ' A piece for actors and orchestra ' by TOM STOPPARD and ANDRÉ PREVIN performed before an audience in the Wembley Conference Centre.
The time is 1944. The action of much of the play is set in an RAF Hospital for Aircrew. George Nunn, a leading aircraftman, finds himself the odd man out...
A tragic event shatters the complacent calm of a great university. Haunted by it, Peter Molyneux turns up at the Italian villa of Dr Still.
A Life of Rupert Brooke from his letters and poems starring
In 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero. Starring Robert Hardy as Sir Malcolm Campbell, with Jennifer Hilary as Lady Campbell and Jack Galloway as Leo Villa
Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a 'shiva', however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers. I only saw the play once, but there were a number of memorable lines, including, when Kugleman comes out of the 'gents', he says to Liftchick, "George won't pass as Jewish, he's got a foreskin as long as my nose!" Another line was, when asked his occupation, George replied that he was an electrician. "If anyone askes", said Liftchick, " tell them you're an electrical contractor!" A great play with an excellent cast.
The date 1911 ... A country house party at the home of a noted Fabian woman and her businessman husband ... The guests include a distinguished author, friends from the business and political world, and a young man disturbed by premonitions ...
A physicist has visions of his unborn baby - it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.
Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience.
Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.
Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love. Writer: Noel Coward
A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.
