Tristram Powell

Talking Heads

Giles Foster, Stuart Burge

Alan Bennett, Patricia Routledge

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Talking Heads 2

Udayan Prasad, Patrick Garland

Patricia Routledge, Eileen Atkins

A series of monologues.

Familiar Spirits

John Mapplebeck, Leo Aylen

Federico Fellini, Ian Dallas

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

East of Ipswich

Tristram Powell

Edward Rawle-Hicks, Pippa Hinchley

Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.

Falling

Tristram Powell

Michael Kitchen, Penelope Wilton

Television drama based on the novel by Elizabeth Jane Howard. Author Daisy Langrish buys a tranquil country cottage as a bolt-hole from the pressures of her busy London life, but doesn't expect her new home to come complete with a would-be suitor. The day she moves in, local gardener Henry Kent is immediately on hand to help and offer his friendship, but are his intentions sinister?

Anybody's Nightmare

Tristram Powell

Patricia Routledge, Georgina Sutcliffe

Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.

American Friends

Tristram Powell

Michael Palin, Trini Alvarado

Francis Ashby, a senior Oxford don on holiday alone in the Alps, meets holidaying American Caroline and her companion Elinor, the blossoming Irish-American girl she adopted many years before. Ashby finds he enjoys their company, particularly that of Elinor, and both the women are drawn to him. Back at Oxford he is nevertheless taken aback when they arrive unannounced. Women are not allowed in the College grounds, let alone the rooms. Indeed any liaison, however innocent, is frowned on by the upstanding Fellows.

Sparkling Cyanide

Tristram Powell

Pauline Collins, Oliver Ford Davies

Based on the novel by Agatha Christie In this TV movie, a classic mystery is updated and relocated to a glamorous world of London socialites and secret agents, introducing two unique and compelling investigators and taking us through to the highest corridors of power.

My Dinner with Louis

Tristram Powell

Louis Malle, Wallace Shawn

Interview with director Louis Malle conducted by Wallace Shawn, produced for the BBC-TV program "Arena".

The Old Devils

Tristram Powell

John Stride, Sheila Allen

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.

Right To Work March

Frances de la Tour, Tony Anscombe

Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker and other leading cultural figures of the left of British politics. The march is intercut with scenes dramatising parallel injustices in the English Civil War era and earlier - featuring Frances de la Tour in queenly mode as Elizabeth I. The film's unconventional structure also features frequent extracts of the rousing pop concert, with the band Slade, which culminated the epic march.