David Cunliffe

The Shell Seekers

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

Summer Solstice

Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.

Scab

Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.

Salad Days

A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.

The Boxwallah

Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.

The Breadwinner

Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.

The Houseboy

Both George and Eric, lovers for a number of years, seek to recapture their lost youth with the new hotel houseboy, at the expense of each other.

The Specialist

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

Too Close to the Edge

Play by Michael Ferguson and Howard Lawrence about an executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter

Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.

The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue

Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.

The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.

Going Back

A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband. "The sun is almost setting. The sky is blue, with ... those little puffy clouds like meringues. There are still leaves on the trees. Oh . quite a few birds are gathering . " All is peaceful. As they talk, a small figure appears walking towards the cottage on the moorland road. Slowly it becomes recognisable as the Armstrong's son David. David's arrival is unexpected. He left home three years ago, and Faith and Jack have heard nothing from him until now. Things at home have changed a lot in those three years. His father has gone blind, and his brother Malcolm is now engaged 'to Heather. David's former girlfriend. The family are curious. Why has David suddenly decided to return home? How long is he staying? Is he in trouble?

The Winter Ladies

When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.

The Daughters of Albion

Three biscuit factory girls mix with students at a party.. Boozing, smoking, jaunty cross-talk and invitations to come to bed follow.

Casting the Runes

The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves

Village Wooing

Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in this play by George Bernard Shaw.

The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?

Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.

Who Killed Lamb?

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.