Writers include Peter Whalley, Joe Turner, Mark Wadlow, David Lane, Martin Allen, Jayne Hollinson, Jonathan Harvey, Daran Little, Chris Fewtrell, Catherine Hayes, Debbie Oates, John Stevenson, John ...

The lives of various people in a town in the North of England. The staple diet of births, ill-fated marriages and violent deaths continued. Storylines included the birth, in 1977, of Tracy Langton, ...

Home (pronounced 'Hume') became a studio manager at BBC radio in 1960 and moved to television in 1964, just as Children's and Women's Programmes merged to form Family Programmes, run by Doreen ...

A gang of schoolboys happens upon a group of conspirators using a children's comic strip to plot their crimes. When the police refuse to take them seriously, the children decide to take their own ...

1958's Easter march to Aldermaston enjoys landmark status in the annals of peaceful protest. Its filmed record is similarly recalled as a milestone for campaigning documentary.

Sir John Holland of Scotland Yard and his daughter Joan are implicated in a murder when they attend a party held by the much-hated Lord Studholme.

A cosmetics salesman suffers the theft of his prized Ford Anglia. His search leads him to a car-stealing ring operated by a vicious criminal. If Never Let Go had been made a decade earlier, the plot ...

A retiring sergeant sees his last platoon of National Service conscripts through basic training, betting that they will win the Star Squad award. Although the film was a big box office hit, it is in ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

A man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole.

Cast: Kim Stanley (Myra Savage); Richard Attenborough (Billy Savage); Mark Eden (Charles Clayton); Nanette Newman (Mrs Clayton); Margaret Lacey (woman at first seance) The film's opening is slowly and ...

Nigel Kneale's adaptation of George Orwell's most celebrated novel was one of the most controversial television programmes of its time, and marks a key transitional moment in the development of ...