Shakespeare or Bust

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

Rehearsal

Creative differences arise during rehearsal of a play about a love affair.

The Quiet Hour

"The Quiet Hour" is a gripping, intimate drama set over the course of one relentless night shift in an NHS hospital, where overworked nurse Riya battles exhaustion, guilt, and the ghosts of past mistakes while caring for

Cock, Hen and Courting Pit

A couple revisit a past love affair when they meet again ten years later.

The Portsmouth Defence

The Hunting of Lionel Crane

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Fable

In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.

The Spongers

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is u

Article Five

Members of a shadowy group demonstrate techniques of enhanced Interrogation of terrorist suspects. However, the demonstration causes consternation that such techniques were approved.

You Talk Too Much

An old lady seeks help from her doctor after her sun-in-law tells her that she suffers from logorrhea

The Bond

Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.

Grease Monkey

An old motorbike gets a new lease of life from a "grease monkey".

Lily My Love

Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'

Edna: The Inebriate Woman

A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy

The Cornet Lesson

A young woman wants to play the cornet in a Salvation Army band. She receives tuition, until the bandmaster questions her commitment to Christianity.

Cries from a Watchtower

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

Coming Out

Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base

The Connoisseur

George Stoupe, successful housemaster at the public school, has an eye to the main chance against his retirement. He chooses the boys for his house if their parents are rich and likely to help him in his profitable art-d

Curse of Chucky

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and chaos.

Mad Jack

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War