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Screen Two

Season 12 1995 - 1996

  • 1995-11-11T22:00:00Z on BBC Two
  • 1h 30m
  • 15h (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
A series of high quality one-off drama films. A spiritual successor to the BBC's long running Play For Today.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

1995-11-11T22:00:00Z

12x01 Great Moments in Aviation

Season Premiere

12x01 Great Moments in Aviation

  • 1995-11-11T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Leaving her home and family in the West Indies, Gabriel Angel embarks on a cruise liner bound for England during the 1950s in the hope of becoming a female aviator.

1995-11-18T22:00:00Z

12x02 Priest

12x02 Priest

  • 1995-11-18T22:00:00Z1h 30m

A vivid and uncompromising journey into the soul of a tortured Catholic priest as he struggles with his own sexuality, his vow of celibacy and the confidentiality of the confessional.
Father Greg arrives at a Liverpool parish to work with Father Matthew Thomas and wage war against sin and poverty. But Greg's homosexual affair with Graham leaves him racked with guilt. This feeling intensifies when he hears a terrible secret in the confessional box and is powerless to do anything about it.

1995-11-25T22:00:00Z

12x03 Streetlife

12x03 Streetlife

  • 1995-11-25T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Jo is a single mother in the middle of a tempestuous love affair with Kevin, a married man. She is pregnant, and when Kevin starts to mess her around and her mother is taken ill, Jo's life starts to crumble.

12x04 Dernier voyage à Glasgow

  • 1995-12-02T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Tom, a young Glaswegian, is living in London and has Aids. Against the advice of Ira, his partner, he decides on a trip home, back to the family that rejected him and the friends he once was close to. Ira has to rescue him from the resulting mayhem.

1995-12-09T22:00:00Z

12x05 A Very Open Prison

12x05 A Very Open Prison

  • 1995-12-09T22:00:00Z1h 30m

The Home Secretary's plans for a prison privatisation programme are scuppered when three maximum security inmates escape.

1995-12-16T22:00:00Z

12x06 Saigon Baby

12x06 Saigon Baby

  • 1995-12-16T22:00:00Z1h 30m

A childless couple's obsession with becoming parents draws them into the shadowy world of baby trafficking.

1995-12-24T22:00:00Z

12x07 The Hawk

12x07 The Hawk

  • 1995-12-24T22:00:00Z1h 30m

A serial killer nicknamed "the Hawk" is preying on women, and suburban wife Annie Marsh begins to suspect her husband. But her past psychiatric history means that nobody will take her seriously.

1995-12-26T22:00:00Z

12x08 The Hour of the Pig

12x08 The Hour of the Pig

  • 1995-12-26T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Idealistic young Parisian lawyer Richard Courtois sets up a practice among the superstitious rural community of Abbeville. Soon, he gets embroiled in religious, political and sexual intrigue.

Season Finale

1995-12-31T22:00:00Z

12x09 Return Of The Native

Season Finale

12x09 Return Of The Native

  • 1995-12-31T22:00:00Z1h 30m

Set in 1842, it tells the turbulent story of mysterious Eustacia Vye, who longs for the excitement of a world beyond the constraints of village life on Egdon Heath.

1996-02-18T22:00:00Z

12x10 Half the Picture

12x10 Half the Picture

  • 1996-02-18T22:00:00Z1h 30m

A dramatised account drawn from actual transcripts that follows the unfolding drama of the Scott Inquiry into the supply of arms to Iraq. The inquiry was set up in response to public outcry over the collapse of the trial of industrialist Paul Henderson.

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