30-07-1930
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Graham McDonald
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London, England, UK
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30-07-1930
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Leo
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Graeme McDonald, Graham McDonald
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London, England, UK
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Goldeneye
British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.Year:
1989
A Photograph
A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.Year:
1977
Spend Spend Spend
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.Year:
1977
Do as I Say
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.Year:
1977
Buffet
A quick drink in the buffet before going home. Freddie's nerves are taking a hammering lately; the economy is in dire trouble and who can blame a businessman for the occasional drink? His wife and mistress for a start.Year:
1976
The Elephants' Graveyard
Bunny has told his wife he is working as a postman, but in fact is wandering the hills all day, wondering why he doesn't want to work. He meets Jody, an older man who has told his wife he's working in a factory, but is in fact doing the same thing. The two men spend a day of friendship together, but what does the future offer them? And tonight is supposed to be pay night...Year:
1976
Rocky Marciano Is Dead
Boxing's lost its soul. The noble art is now big business, and Harry's a has-been manager. But his dream remains-to find a champion, a new Louis, a new Marciano.Year:
1976
Bet Your Life
Like alcoholism, gambling is a disease. Ches, a compulsive gambler, is sent for medical help. A wonder drug perhaps? Or hypnosis maybe? Ches finds that his psychiatrist has other ideas.Year:
1976
Bar Mitzvah Boy
On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.Year:
1976
Early Struggles
Kevin's wife walked out and left him holding the baby – no sleep, dirty nappies, and a career in pop music at risk. And ahead lies a visit to the clinic. Will Kevin succeed as a mother?Year:
1976
The Peddler
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?Year:
1976
Love Letters on Blue Paper
Why has Sonia taken to writing letters to her husband, posted to him in the letter-box just outside their house – love letters, on blue paper, recalling with increasing vividness the early days of their courtship and marriage?Year:
1976
A Story to Frighten the Children
The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and murdered, and the attitude of some is not always sympathetic.Year:
1976
Just Another Saturday
It's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.Year:
1975
The Floater
A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.Year:
1975
Brassneck
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property speculation of the 1960s and the disillusionment with the Labour government in the early 1970s. Like most of the early work of the writers, David Hare and Howard Brenton, committed radical (if not revolutionary) socialists throughout the 1970s, it is a satirical attack on capitalist greed and corruption, full of savage, and often disturbing, humour.Year:
1975
Wednesday Love
Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.Year:
1975
Child of Hope
Thirty-seven men from the disputed territory of South West Africa are on trial for their lives in Pretoria, 1,000 miles from their home. They are to be tried under South Africa's Terrorism Act despite the UN ruling that South Africa must abandon its 'illegal administration' of their country.Year:
1975
Back of Beyond
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'Year:
1974
A Follower for Emily
Harry and Emily are two of the livelier residents of a London old people's home. When they decide to get married, things prove less simple.Year:
1974
The Childhood Friend
On holiday, with his family, nothing to do and his wife ill, Sasha (Alexander) is only too pleased to meet again the girl he loved at 17.Year:
1974
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.Year:
1974
Sizwe Bansi is Dead
Two Black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry yo prove their identity during the apartheid eraYear:
1974
Easy Go
A hot day by the Thames - very hot for some Deptford children. When they and some dockers spot a 'prize' in the river, the race is on between the rival factions to win it.Year:
1974
Hot Fat
Three men meet in a sauna bath - one is a busy estate agent, one is in the middle of a sympathetic pregnancy and one is an annoying eccentric. The play shows how they spoil each other's relaxation.Year:
1974
Joe's Ark
The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."Year:
1974
Jingle Bells
Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family.Year:
1973
The Emergency Channel
Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no memory?Year:
1973
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.Year:
1973
The Stretch
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.Year:
1973
Edward G: Like the Filmstar
Edward G is nothing like a film star; his life has been ordinary - until now. But he's just had a shattering experience.Year:
1973
Three's One
Are Maggie and Tony using each other as a means of communicating with Dr Leafer? Or are they using Dr Leafer as a means of communicating with each other?Year:
1973
Speech Day
Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what comes next for Ronnie, Wally and Rob?Year:
1973
Only Make Believe
Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.Year:
1973
Highway Robbery
Terry and his family fight against a planned eviction when the council decides on a road building programme and their house is in its path.Year:
1973
Kisses at Fifty
A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.Year:
1973
The Bouncing Boy
A young couple have a baby boy. However, the new father doesn't take to his new position quite as well as expected.Year:
1972
Just Your Luck
When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.Year:
1972
The Bankrupt
Ellis Cripper has lost his money and his memory; in different ways he tries to make sense of his situation.Year:
1972
Better Than the Movies
A man celebrating his birthday comes to appreciate the difference between media fantasy and mundane reality.Year:
1972
Man Friday
Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday, with a new twist by which both characters believe they are teaching the other.Year:
1972
Carson Country
Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.Year:
1972
The Reporters
Two provincial newspaper reporters - one a young idealist starting out on his career, the other an embittered man who previously wrote for a failed national daily - swap views.Year:
1972
Cows
Geraldine, a psychiatric social worker, has an accident whilst in the country. The inhabitants of a nearby house come out to help her and she discovers that one of the family members prefers cows to people.Year:
1972
The House on Highbury Hill
The path of righteousness is a stony one. And Lo! for Daniel it is stonier than most.Year:
1972
Stocker's Copper
In August 1913 a strike at a Cornish clay pit leads to Welsh police being sent to keep order. Having no other source of income, a striking miner is forced to take in one of the policemen as a lodger. They soon become friends, but escalating tension at the mine means that conflict will become inevitable.Year:
1972
Still Waters
A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.Year:
1972
Skin Deep
Gerry Muddiman works for a large American corporation, supposedly modern and forward-thinking, but whose style of modern business paternalism and methods ends up driving a wedge between him and his wife.Year:
1971
Thank You Very Much
A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.Year:
1971
Evelyn
'The Man' and 'The Woman' regularly meet for an extramarital affair whilst her husband works late. Professing love for both men creates paranoia in The Man who invents a fourth person - a mistress, Evelyn.Year:
1971
Traitor
Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapseYear:
1971
The Man in the Sidecar
Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.Year:
1971
The Rank and File
Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.Year:
1971
Orkney
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.Year:
1971
Billy's Last Stand
Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...Year:
1971
The Piano
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.Year:
1971
Hell's Angel
Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.Year:
1971
Circle Line
Play about a student, taken from his point of view, and his reactions to the pressures and vacuums of student life.Year:
1971
The Hallelujah Handshake
Henry sets out to join a church and passionately help the parish. Slowly but surely his habits of exaggeration and lying begin to catch up with him.Year:
1970
Robin Redbreast
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.Year:
1970
Angels Are So Few
This neat, intense drama, labelled “a fable for television”, stars Tom Bell as the scruffy, childlike Michael Biddle, who is invited in from the cold of a suburban street by sexually frustrated, bored housewife Cynthia, played by Christine Hargreaves. He declares that he’s an angel, and Cynthia needs an angel, but in a way Michael fears...Year:
1970
The Lie
Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex SegalYear:
1970
Wine of India
In the year 2050, advances in medicine have resulted in a need for population control. People reaching the age of 100 must submit to a government controlled euthanasia program. The story centers around a 100-year old couple who must now make plans for their funeral.Year:
1970
The Boy Who Wanted Peace
Two underprivileged Glaswegian youngsters are caught up in sectarian gang warfare after discovering crates stuffed with banknotes in the basement they use for a clubhouse.Year:
1970
Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a favourite uncle.Year:
1970
The Hunting of Lionel Crane
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.Year:
1970
Blood of the Lamb
A student architect and his black girlfriend set out from South Africa to Britain. On the voyage, the student shares a cabin with an enigmatic Austrian.Year:
1969
There Is Also Tomorrow
The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.Year:
1969
Son of Man
Dennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.Year:
1969
A Child and a Half
A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.Year:
1969
Bam! Pow! Zap!
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.Year:
1969
On the Eve of Publication
TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.Year:
1968
A Beast with Two Backs
A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.Year:
1968
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.Year:
1968
Mille Miglia
In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson won the Mille Miglia, one of the toughest races in the calendar.This play is about the two men, and the qualities and preparation that went into that victory.Year:
1968
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An adopted child's world falls apart when his mother decides to walk out on her marriage.Year:
1968
