Anderson flies to Prague for a conference expecting an easy time of it, but finds himself in a potentially dangerous moral dilemma.
A television play by HUGH WHITEMORE based on Exiles by MICHAEL J. ARLEN starring Alan Badel as Michael Arlen, Martin Shaw as his son, Michael J. Susan Engel as his mother, Atalanta and Ned Sherrin as Noel Coward Michael Arlen , author of The Green Hat , was one of the most successful popular novelists of the 20s. He was also an exile; an Armenian born in Bulgaria, but brought up in England and resident for the last years of his life in the USA. Now, after his death, and the decline in the popularity of his works, his son looks back on his life, and tries to make sense of it.
by Christopher Hampton. Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.
The Sinking of HMS Victoria by James Warner Bellah and Donald MacIntyre. Based on a Court Martial held aboard HMS Hibernia in Malta in 1893. The court endeavours to determine why, during fleet manoeuvres, HMS Victoria is sunk in a collision resulting in a grievous loss of life.
Michael York as Dietrich Bonhoeffer in True Patriot by DON SHAW. Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.
Shooting the Chandelier by DAVID MERCER Czechoslovakia , April 1945. A chance meeting between a professor and his former student develops into a violent trial of strength.
The Kitchen by ARNOLD WESKER starring Peter Egan
Arnhem: The Story of an Escape based on the book Travel by Dark by GRAEME WARRACK
Our Day Out by WILLY RUSSELL. One coach, 30 kids - and their teachers - set out from Liverpool to North Wales. As the volatile mixture erupts, mirth and anarchy prevail while tempers flare.
Forgotten Love Songs by MAGGIE WADEY. 'The man knew what he wanted. A relationship that was loving, but not possessive. In other words, he wanted to maintain his sanity.'
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted by the doorbell; his former secretary, Peggy Prothero, has come to visit. A brash, charmless woman who seems to take no pleasure in anything but putting people down, Miss Prothero wants to fill her old boss in on all the changes that have taken place at work since he left. Dodsworth isn't very curious, and as the visit wears on it puts a little strain on his politeness and patience. Miss Prothero doesn't enjoy it much either, but lingers on as there's a bombshell she wants to drop. The docketing system Dodsworth introduced thirty years earlier, which revolutionised the firm, has been scrapped by her adored new boss Mr Skinner. The crowning achievement of Dodsworth's career has just become obsolete, and she wants to tell him all about it.
Mr and Ms Bureaucrat by RHYS ADRIAN. Behind the façade of form-filling at the Department of Something-or-Other, careers fall and rise at the drop of an apostrophe. Will HIB's double negative be accepted, ensuring his pension prospects?
Foreign Affairs by DON SHAW. Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.
Maria Warburg and Cyril Shaps in The Dissolution of Marcus Fleischman by STEPHEN DAVIS. ' Please God, it will be next year in Jerusalem '. For Zelda, and for many like her, it was next year in Manchester - for her husband Marcus the future was even more unexpected.
Pat Heywood and Allan Surtees in The O'Hooligan File by JANEY PREGER. ' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill by SEAN MCCARTHY. Married life starts out full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda - but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.
Flayed by DON TAYLOR with Ian Holm. ' There's absolutely no escape. No chairs or tables to hold on to, no fags to light or drinks to pour: no small talk or trivial daytime chatter. Just the naked person.'
She Fell Among Thieves by DORNFORD YATES. Screenplay by TOM SHARPE.1924: Two English gentlemen join forces to attack Vanity Fair, a villainess of international notoriety, in her fortified château in the South of France.
Written by John Fletcher. [Starring] Stephen Murray, Roy Dotrice and Peggy Mount. Music composed by DAVID FANSHAWE. with Toni Arthur and Roy Marsden. The Midsummer Festival on the top of Zummerdown in the West Country. Music and dancing, creative swearing and onion-eating contests help to plan the economy for the coming year. In this carnival atmosphere the age-old balance between Town and Country - Toonies and Aggros - must be maintained. The lessons of the past 300 years cannot be forgotten - for this is the 23rd century.
Liza from TURGENEV. Dramatised by LEO LEHMAN starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies Jeremy Kemp , Sebastian Shaw and Joyce Redman. Lavretsky returns to Russia from Europe and finds he joins a group of admirers of his beautiful young cousin Liza.
For Tea on Sunday by DAVID MERCER with An unexpected force shatters the urbane calm of a Sunday afternoon tea party. With JANE HAYDEN , EILEEN BRADY GRACE DOLAN , STEPHEN LAWRENCE
Written by Don Taylor. With Oliver Cotton, Alec McCowen, Rosemary McHale, Patrick Stewart, Zena Walker. On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. The Count is delighted to have an excuse for re-opening the old family theatre, closed since his childhood. But other members of his household wonder whether these unexpected guests should be made quite so welcome.
The Winslow Boy by TERENCE RATTIGAN starring Alan Badel , Eric Porter, Michele Dotrice , Diana Fairfax David Robb. The term at Osborne Naval College is not yet over. Why. therefore. has Cadet Ronnie Winslow returned home? And why, moreover, is he hiding in the garden in the rain?
Ice Age by TANKRED DORST , translated by NEVILLE PLAICE AND STEPHEN PLAICE starring Anthony Quayle with Mike Gwilym , Joyce Redman Michael Williams. ' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
A play with music by STEPHEN DEUTSCH . A fateful day in the life of a great composer.
Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle: 1 by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate and Isla Blair. Philip Mackie 's three plays are about the making of a successful soap opera An Englishman's Castle in a state controlled television service, and of its author and producer Peter Ingram. The plays are set in London today-but in a Britain defeated in 1940 and now a satellite state of Germany.
Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle A play in three parts by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate and Isla Blair. 2: Peter Ingram. producer and author of An Englishman's Castle, the soap opera which has brought him fame and fortune, is confronted by difficult decisions of conscience .. ,
Kenneth More in An Englishman's Castle A play in three parts by PHILIP MACKIE with Anthony Bate , Isla Blair and Frederick Treves. 3: Peter Ingram is faced by appalling alternatives both in his home life and in the state television service in which he works. 'Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate revolutions.' (NAPOLEON i)
The first of three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW with 1: If I Forget Thee 0 Jerusalem with ... one of the most successful ventures in technical multi-partnership that television drama has given us recently ... tSUNDAY TIMES). The splendid commitment of Barry Foster and the mystery still surrounding our most unorthodox Second World War leader keep me gripped ... (DAILY TELEGRAPH). highly articulate and technically adventurous. (OBSERVER) Admirably controlled writing, brilliantly inventive direction. (LONDON EVENING STANDARD)
Three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW with 2: For the Sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
The last of three dramatised impressions of Major General Orde Wingate by DON SHAW in Turn You to the Strong Hold
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.
'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
A dramatic romp in the company of Frank Harris , 1855-1931, the most infamous man of letters of his day, and author of the scandalous My Life and Loves, banned in this country until 1964. ' The most impossible ruffian on the face of the earth.' (Bernard Shaw) ' Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses of London ... once.' (Oscar Wilde) ' The best talker in London.' (Max Beerbohm) He is indeed a monster according to all conventional standards, but his monstrosity only offends the shallow people who simply aren't worth propitiating.' (biographer Hesketh Pearson ) ' Sex is the gateway to life.' (Frank Harris to novelist Enid Bagnold ) .. so I went through the gateway in an upper room at the Cafe Royal.' (Enid Bagnold)
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm as J.M. Barrie with Ann Bell as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Maureen O'Brien as Mary Barrie, Tim Pigott-Smith as Arthur Llewelyn Davies and Anna Cropper as Mary Hodgson Part 1: We set out to be wrecked 1897: a quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St Bernard dog. The man is J. M. Barrie ... Peter Pan has not yet been written ...
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm. 2: Dark and sinister man 1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan , Barrie is only too happy to respond.
A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN Part 3: An awfully big adventure 1913. Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.
' If he's been locked up all these years why is it all right to let him out now? ' ' New thinking.' But what happens when new thinking comes up against the same old behaviour?
The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.
Written by ROBERT HOLLES starring Bill Paterson , Ann Beach '... why don' you keep that missus of yours under control ... she ain' exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put her right. I'll tell yer . . . '
'It's all in the mind. Success, failure ... nothing to do with numbers on paper, words written in books ... it's all in there.'
From the book by JEAN RENOIR Dramatised by ANDREW DAVIES An evocation of the life and work of Auguste Renoir as remembered by his son-film director, Jean Renoir. Music specially composed by CARL DAVIS and played by the NASH ENSEMBLE
Dramatisation of the true story of a childless couple who adopted a Thalidomide child, Terry Wiles, and encounter scepticism and opposition from the friends. Terry Wiles plays himself. The title is taken from a quotation by George Herbert (1593-1633): "A Dwarf on Giant's shoulders sees farther of the two".
Devised by SARAH PIA ANDERSON and SHEILA KELLEY A new flat and a new friend. For Emmie life would be lovely-but her daughter hardly visits any more and won't even let Mum make those wonderful bouffant frocks for her ballroom dancing ... Dances arranged by RITA POVER
' I'm a spy, you know ... I've got to report back.' Conroy has been asked by the teaching order's recruitment officer Brother Martin Jerome , to be guide and help to the most promising candidate, 16-year-old Stephen. To Stephen it is just another of the pressures on him at this critical time.