Playhouse

The Breakthrough

On a remote Cornish coast, a small group of scientists at an out of the way research laboratory delve into the mystery o

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.

Diane

Teenager Diane Weaver lives with her abusive single father. A religious local boy only who wants to be her friend, but s

Kites

Retired prep school headmaster Lawrence Hastings has few pleasures in life. One is kite flying, until this too is spoilt

An Accident of Class and Sex

A Martyr to the System

A school lecturer is possessed by the spirit of Othello during the teaching of Classics.

The Button Man

Practical Experience

Dad

The Chauffeur

Joe, chauffeur to a South American embassy, enjoys the small perks of privilege his job provides. When a coup results in

Play Things

A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a desolate London area.

Jumbo

The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl

Psychic investigator George Livingston is asked to attend a séance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine

The Mind Beyond: Double Echo

Alison has suffered Autism since childhood. Now 17, her parents take her to Dr. Mallam for psychotherapy. Alison is test

The Mind Beyond: The Love of a Good Woman

A pair of childhood sweethearts have their peaceful life interrupted when a vulgar woman from her dreams show up in real

The Mind Beyond: The Daedalus Equations

During a séance, a medium transcribes complex equations that seem to be the final work of a recently deceased physicist

The Mind Beyond: Stones

Stones and curses go together. A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford hist

The Mind Beyond: The Man with the Power

An ordinary man suddenly discovers that he possesses psychic powers.

The Achurch Letters

A play about the (celibate) relationship between writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous drug addict actress.

School Play

A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.

Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a c

The Brylcreem Boys

Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to

An Affinity with Dr. Still

Home Movies

Keith and Alec have been making holiday movies, together for 25 years. Alec suddenly spots a moment between wife Sybil a

Sweet Wine of Youth

Speed King

In 1935, Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is abo

Pews

Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a shiva, however, not having the required numbe

Gentle Folk

An Edwardian house party given by a Fabian woman, her business-man husband and assorted guests from politics and the Art

Trouble with Gregory

Gregory has troubles enough when Ella moves him out and sets him up for a job with the radio. Suspicions of infidelity c

Lifelike

A comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but one schoolboy does not agree with this assessment.

The Enigma

An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.

Hesther for Example

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afte

The Best of Friends

What is friendship? Why do two grown men behave like egomaniac children or flustered prima donnas? And when they meet un

In Hiding

A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.

Rottingdean

Mother is manic, Father frustrated. Son sees himself as quite an operator. Daughter wants to change the dreary world of

The Dig

Happy

Mary's Wife

A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.

Games Without Frontiers

Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home

The Unborn

A physicist has visions of his unborn baby – it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator

Electric in the City

Blue Remembered Hills

Repeated from Play for Today

Thank You Comrades

Coming Out

Crest of a Wave

Freedom of the Dig

A Walk in the Forest

Hallelujah, Mary Plum

A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her wa

Dalhousie's Luck

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one

An Ordered Life

German composer Anton Webern survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WWII. His son, ag

Caught on a Train

Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His trip is complicated by two women also as

Fatal Spring

The Black Madonna

Lou Parker feels very strongly that she and her husband, Ray, are different from the Farrells and the Ackerleys. With th

The Happy Autumn Fields

Grown-Ups

Young working class couple Dick and Mandy move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their fo

My Dear Palestrina

Shaping Up

Standing in for Henry

At a Nottingham advertising agency, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic

Fothergill

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the inten

One Hundred and Eighty!!!

A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.

The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe

A day in the life of Mrs Radcliffe, who believes that the advice she so freely gives is done only out of kindness.

A Last Visitor for Mr. Hugh Peter

In prison the night before his execution, Republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for

Journal of Bridget Hitler

An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WWI Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitl

Days at the Beach

In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.

Bobby Wants to Meet Me

In 1978, Changes Magazine journalist Neville Morris writes an essay about Bob Dylan called 'A Jewish Massiah'. Dylan's p

Days

A mother, waiting for a visit through a hospital day, reflects on her life. Dreams haunt her, fantasies seduce her, memo

Clapperclaw

VE Night, 1945: In a Yorkshire pub, not everyone is in a mood to celebrate. Lorna Thorpe's 'All-Star' dance band is down

The Potsdam Quartet

An exploration of the personal and professional conflicts of a string quartet who have been playing together for many ye

Unity

The true story of Unity Mitford who, in the 1930s, moves to Germany, where she befriends Adolf Hitler.

Skylark

Elizabeth Alone: Part 1

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe

Elizabeth Alone: Part 2

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe

Elizabeth Alone: Part 3

After nineteen years of marriage, three children, and a brief but passionate affair followed by a quick divorce, Elizabe

The Man Who Almost Knew Eamonn Andrews

You're All Right, How Am I?

The Day War Broke Out

Albie Warren and his girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty v

Random Moments in a May Garden

Going Gently

Two men sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficul

Marriage

Mrs. Reinhardt

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

Last Summer's Child

A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

Autumn Sunshine

The Grudge Fight

Virginia Fly Is Drowning

Secure in her suburban home, Virginia Fly dreams of a life of unbridled passion and romance. She feels her fantasies are

Findings on a Late Afternoon

Gerald is on the edge of a complete breakdown. During an afternoon with his father, he starts to come to terms with the

Dancing Country

The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a

The Combination

A Silly Little Habit

An apparently happy and privileged woman begins shoplifting.

Aubrey

The story of Aubrey Beardsley, an English illustrator and author, whose black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese w

Preview

Four television critics gather in a Wardour Street preview theatre to see a documentary and get the surprise of their li

Out of Step

A keen ballroom dancer becomes an alcoholic after discovering she's infertile.

A Shilling Life

A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

The Workshop

In 1945, just a year since the allied troops entered Paris, Simone arrives for her first day at M. Leon's tailoring work

How Many Miles to Babylon?

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and, in 1914, find themselves in the same Ar

The Pigman's Protégé

In 1919, the carnage of WWI has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her cripple

A Pocketful of Dreams

At the moment, money is scarce and times are hard for everyone—even villains like Charlie and Denny are feeling the pi

Keeping in Touch

When James pays one of his periodic visits to his mother, he finds her curiously resigned to the loneliness she's suffer

The Guest

Gerald fancies himself as a bit of a gourmet and a trip to the gastronomic delights of France promises well. His wife Hi

The Sidmouth Letters

Academic scavenger Shorty believes he's tracked down some letters that reveal an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's n

The Queen of Annagh

Nancy is the sole inhabitant of the Isle of Annagh off the west coast of Scotland. Although World War III is raging all

By George

An anthropologist observed by one of his erstwhile victims — a sophisticated comedy.

Lunch

Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

Passing Through

At a railway public house, two strangers engage in a conversation and begin to open up about their life's. Richard is an

Jake's End

Jake's a professional, a married man with a reputation to maintain—and a bank to rob.

Housewarming

Her husband Gary is behind on the central heating installation. Eunice, her best friend, has a crush on the lodger — a

Easy Money

At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life a

Potatohead Blues

Stan McVay has given up smoking, gone on a diet and feels like hell. He's also abandoned the Ulster spud and just learne

Irwin Shaw Triple Bill: The Man Who Married a French Wife / The Monument / The Girls in Their Summer Dresses

Three short stories by Irwin Shaw.

Chains

Eddie's 40th birthday party reunites friends not seen since the old days of ton-up bikes and early rock and roll. It cou

Come Into the Garden, Maud

A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

A Song at Twilight

A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.

Fraulein Else

Imaginary Friends

Possibilities