Sakharov

Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil ri

In Search of Cabaret

Gladio

In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interv

Reasonable Force

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping orde

Wynne and Penkovsky

The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russi

The Cold War Killers

A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy

The Alamut Ambush

This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned

Mary Rose

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades l

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India

The year is 1893 and India is under British occupation. In a small village, the tyrannical Captain R

The War That Never Ends

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broa

Crossfire

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.

The Law Lord

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secre

The Heart of Me

Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in lov

Clockwise

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses hi

Across the Lake

Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. Set in 1967, Campbell broke the 300mph water

Scouting for Boys

Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling

Fighting Back

A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make

The Chain

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da

Henry VIII

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine a

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Macbeth

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there,

Breath

Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma creates problems. Ever

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose

Through the Night

The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles t

Inappropriate Behaviour

Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teac

The Shell Seekers

After a mild heart attack at 63, Penelope Keeling is not ready to be an invalid yet...despite her ch

Number 27

Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a youn