David Swift
1931 - 2016The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
John Glenister
Ronald Pickup, Fiona Walker
A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. The book he has come to write is Nineteen Eighty-four.
The Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura
Richard II
David Giles
Derek Jacobi, Jon Finch
Richard II, who ascended the throne as a child, is a regal and stately monarch. He believes he is the rightful ruler of England, ordained by God, yet he is a weak and ineffective king - wasteful in his spending habits, unwise in his choise of chansellors, and detached from his country and its people. When he seizes the land of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, both the commoners and the barons decide that their king has gone too far...
Richard II
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Kim Flitcroft
Ronnie Barker, Patricia Brake
Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's chequered career.
Life Beyond the Box: Norman Stanley Fletcher
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Michael Apted
David Swift, Freddie Fletcher
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
An audience with Bob Monkhouse
Patricia Mordecai
Jeremy Beadle, Bob Monkhouse
The late, great comedian Bob Monkhouse entertains a celebrity audience that includes Stephen Fry, Mandy Smith and Eamonn Holmes in this 1994 special. Watch him answer questions, tell funny tales and crack jokes.
An Audience with Bob Monkhouse
Jack & Sarah
Tim Sullivan
Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into labour, he takes a tumble down the stairs and lands on his head. When he comes around he discovers he is the proud father of a baby girl, but deficient in the spouse department to the tune of 1.
Jack & Sarah
Countdown to War
Patrick Lau
Ian McKellen, Michael Aldridge
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Countdown to War
Travels with My Aunt
George Cukor
Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Travels with My Aunt
