Philip Ashley

After the Ball

The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility

Train of Events

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

The Duke in Darkness

BBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play.

Sophy of Kravonia; or, The Virgin of Paris

Sophy, a kitchen maid, has her fortune told by a gypsy, who sees something shiny over Sophy's head: a sword, or perhaps a crown. Sophy then sets out for Paris, where she gains employment with the Zerkovitches. As war breaks out, she returns with them to Kravonia. There, Sophy meets Crown Prince Sergius and saves him from assassins, who plot to overthrow the dynasty and place Alexis, the son of the ailing king's wife, on the throne.