Gavin Millar

Talking Heads 2

Udayan Prasad, Patrick Garland

Patricia Routledge, Eileen Atkins

A series of monologues.

Tidy Endings

Gavin Millar

Stockard Channing, Harvey Fierstein

Based on the play by actor/playwright Harvey Fierstein, this drama is about a man whose companion dies of AIDS. He then confronts his lover's ex-wife and the two end up building a friendship while coping with the emotional aftermath of the death.

Pat and Margaret

Gavin Millar

Victoria Wood, Julie Walters

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.

Housewife, 49

Gavin Millar

Victoria Wood, David Threlfall

Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.

Goodbye

Gavin Millar

Jeremy Kemp, Joanna Dunham

"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.

The Russian Soldier

Gavin Millar

Warren Clarke, Patrick Malahide

What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is certain. Life will never be the same again for him and his family.

The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees

Gavin Millar

Norman McLaren, Gavin Millar

The career of Scots-Canadian animation innovator, Norman McLaren.

Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill

Gavin Millar

Judi Dench, Ian Holm

Eustace and Dorrie Edgehill have decided to leave Samola, a British protectorate in the Pacific. After the failure of his latest harebrained scheme, no one is likely to give Eustace a job now. Or are they?

Cream in My Coffee

Gavin Millar

Peggy Ashcroft, Lionel Jeffries

Past and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."

A Pretty British Affair

Charles Chabot, Gavin Millar

Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual partnership. Includes clips from many of their films.

My Fragile Heart

Gavin Millar

Sarah Lancashire, Lorcan Cranitch

Trina Lavery returns home to Stoke after 20 years, to look after her ill mother. She learns that Bernard Cleve is also living in Stoke. Bernard was accused of killing Trinas best friend many years ago but was never convicted. Another girl is killed and Bernard is again a suspect. Trina thinks he is innocent but places herself in danger in trying to prove it.

Monsieur Hulot's Work

David Cheshire

Jacques Tati, Gavin Millar

Interview with French director Jacques Tati, focusing on his on-screen persona, Monsieur Hulot. Produced for the British television series "Omnibus".

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Journey of Radiance

Deepa Mehta, Gavin Millar

Corey Carrier, Margaret Tyzack

In the fifth film in the series, in 1910, the Jones family attends a meeting of the Theosophy movement in Benares, India. There young Indy befriends a young boy named Jiddu Krishnamurti who is presented by the society to be the next world teacher and possible messiah. Traveling on to China, mother Jones takes Miss Seymour and Indy on a sightseeing trip while father meets with Chinese translator Yen Fu. Indy becomes ill during a rain storm and the travelers seek shelter with a poor Chinese family. Despite the misgivings of his mother, a local doctor is allowed to treat the boy with acupuncture.

Made In Ealing: The Story of Ealing Studios

T. E. B. Clarke, Charles Crichton

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Danny the Champion of the World

Gavin Millar

Jeremy Irons, Robbie Coltrane

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.

Funny Bones

Peter Chelsom

Oliver Platt, Jerry Lewis

Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.