A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.
In the summer of 2012, a company of nine actors and director Tim Crouch came together to create a production of King Lear specifically for young audiences. It toured to schools across England before touring to New York's Park Avenue Armory, where the production was filmed.
Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is not eating. The family GP has diagnosed 'failure to thrive', and Mark is sent to the hospital for a check-up.
Comedy in which a young Geordie, Peter, is put under pressure by his fiancee who wants him to name the wedding day. Enough pressure to make him consider jumping off the Tyne Bridge. Peter tells the story to a lass he meets at a club.
As Old William stands in an autumnal Yorkshire graveyard at his wife's funeral, a young man's face strikes an uncanny chord and brings back memories of his past
"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A British Allied convoy designated for the Soviet Union comes under attack from German forces during World War II.
Howard drives his partner Joseph from their farm to hospital to undergo high risk surgery. The unexpected discovery of an old mix tape in the glove compartment sees the masculinity of their forty-year relationship start to yield.
Henry is forced to stay with his passionless great-uncle and slips into a fantastical world where he meets Raygo, an elf-like hunter who reveals that all he needs to restore his uncle's imagination is a single drop of blood from a hideous beast that enjoys sucking people's brains out of their eye...
'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not many.' Brian is enthusiastic about his new job, but Thomas has seen it all before.
Kim and Aggie travel to Ealing, West London, to look at the standards of cleanliness and issues of hygiene facing Britain's hospitals. Ealing Hospital has been publicly criticized in the past for its levels of sanitation. But during the last 18 months the hospital's Chief Executive, Fiona Wise, has...
Judith Allchurch and Ian Stevens star in this drama based on the story by Edward Chitham. When young historians Teresa (Allchurch) and David (Stevens) discover that the name on a piece of embroidered cloth belonging to Teresa's family matches that of a strange gravestone in the local churchyard,...
