Lindsay Duncan

biography:
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (born November 7, 1950) is a Scottish stage and television actress.  She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage. She has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Duncan's film credits include Prick Up Your Ears (1987), The Reflecting Skin (1990), City Hall (1996), An Ideal Husband, Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Mansfield Park (all 1999), Under the Tuscan Sun, AfterLife (both 2003), Starter for 10 (2006), Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), About Time (2013), Birdman (2014), and Blackbird (2019).

Outside of stage and film, Duncan appeared as Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's critically acclaimed G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii on the HBO historical drama series Rome (2005–2007), Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009), Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle in the BBC Two miniseries The Honourable Woman (2014), and Lady Smallwood on BBC One's Sherlock (2014–2017). She also portrayed Elizabeth Longford and Margaret Thatcher in the television films Longford (2006) and Margaret (2009), respectively.

G.B.H.

overview:
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children.

The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome".

In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.

character: Barbara Douglas

Rome

overview: A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

character: Servilia of the Junii

original_name: Rome

The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

overview: Adaptation of the classic novel by Henry Fielding chronicling the life, loves and adventures of the charming Tom.

character: Lady Bellaston

original_name: The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling

Spooks

overview: Tense drama series about the different challenges faced by the British Security Service as they work against the clock to safeguard the nation. The title is a popular colloquialism for spies, and the series follows the work of a group of MI5 officers based at the service's Thames House headquarters, in a highly secure suite of offices known as The Grid.

character: Angela Wells

The Kit Curran Radio Show

overview: Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit reigns as the undisputed king of small-time Radio Newtown; but sparks start to fly when a new boss arrives and Kit finds that his days of egocentric scheming may soon be numbered!

character: Pamela Scott

original_name: The Kit Curran Radio Show

Criminal Justice

overview: Thriller by Peter Moffat about the challenges and politics of the criminal justice system seen through the eyes of the accused.

character: Alison Slaughter

original_name: Criminal Justice

Perfect Strangers

overview: Daniel Symon comes face to face with his extended family – a cadre of eccentrics, all of whom hiding their own secrets. At a reunion, patriarch Raymond is presented with a copy of the family tree and is enthralled by the complexity of his family ties.

character: Alice

original_name: Perfect Strangers

Colin's Sandwich

overview: Colin's Sandwich is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC2 in 1988 and 1990 which stars Mel Smith as Colin Watkins, a British Rail clerk who aspired to be a horror writer. The show was written by Paul Smith and Terry Kyan and ran for two series of six episodes. In the second series, Colin manages to achieve some small successes as a writer.

character: Rosemary

original_name: Colin's Sandwich

The New Avengers

overview:
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens.

A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.

character: Jane

original_name: The New Avengers

origin_country: CA GB

Inside No. 9

overview: An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

character: Loretta Lamb

original_name: Inside No. 9

Traffik

overview:
Traffik is a 1989 British television serial about the illegal drugs trade. Its three stories are interwoven, with arcs told from the perspectives of Afghan and Pakistani growers and manufacturers, German dealers, and British users. It was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, winning three. It also won an International Emmy Award for best drama.

The 2000 crime drama film Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, was based on this television serial. In turn, the 2004 American television miniseries Traffic was based on both versions.

character: Helen Rosshalde

original_name: Traffik

Oliver Twist

overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

character: Elizabeth Leeford

original_name: Oliver Twist

Jake's Progress

overview: Jamie looks after his son Jake while his wife works all hours.

character: Monica

original_name: Jake's Progress

A Year in Provence

overview: Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.

character: Annie Mayle

original_name: A Year in Provence

Get Real

overview: Louise, Adam and Lestor are good friends. They meet up in each other's flats or in a coffee bar to drink and discuss life, love and sex.

character: Louise

original_name: Get Real

The Honourable Woman

overview: Nessa Stein, the daughter of a Zionist arms procurer who as a child witnessed his assassination. Now an adult, Nessa inherits her father's company and changes course from supplying arms to laying data cabling networks between Israel and the West Bank. Her efforts to reconcile the Israelis and Palestinians lands her an appointment to the House of Lords and creates an international political maelstrom.

character: Anjelica Hayden-Hoyle

original_name: The Honourable Woman

A History of Britain

overview:
Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama's way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result.

Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

character: Reader

original_name: A History of Britain

TECX

character: Laura Pellin

original_name: TECX

Spy

overview: When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.

character: The Director

original_name: Spy

Black Mirror

overview: Twisted tales run wild in this mind-bending anthology series that reveals humanity's worst traits, greatest innovations and more.

character: Alex Cairns

original_name: Black Mirror

Agatha Christie's Marple

overview: The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

character: Marina Gregg

original_name: Agatha Christie's Marple

Count Arthur Strong

overview: Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he was... or still thinks he is. Believing that another great entertainment triumph is only a phone call away, Arthur spends his day making the most of any opportunity that comes along - gaining a free lunch or selling a dodgy foot-spa he doesn't want - creating chaos and confusion wherever he goes, blissfully unaware that he has done so.

character: Dame Agnes

original_name: Count Arthur Strong

Toast of London

overview: Steven Toast, an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past, spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

original_name: Toast of London

Sherlock

overview: A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.

character: Lady Smallwood

original_name: Sherlock

Around the World in 80 Days

overview: Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.

character: Jane Digby

original_name: Around the World in 80 Days

Against the Wall

overview: This Chicago-set family drama follows a policewoman who causes a rift with her three cop brothers when she decides to join the department's Internal Affairs division.

character: Faith Kowalski

original_name: Against the Wall

Truelove

overview: A group of old friends reunited at a funeral make a drunken pact. Rather than let each other suffer a slow and painful decline they would engineer a dignified death. But what starts out as a fanciful idea soon morphs into shocking reality.

character: Phil

original_name: Truelove

The Wheel of Time

overview: The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever. They must choose whether to trust this stranger – and each other – with the fate of the world before the Dark One breaks out of His prison, and the Last Battle begins.

character: Anvaere Damodred

original_name: The Wheel of Time

Merlin

overview: The unlikely friendship between Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers, and Prince Arthur, heir to the crown of Camelot.

character: Queen Annis

original_name: Merlin

The Sinking of the Laconia

overview: The true story of the Allied ship Laconia, sunk in WWII by a German U-Boat, which then surfaced against orders to rescue the civilian crew

character: Elisabeth Fullwood

original_name: The Sinking of the Laconia

The Rector's Wife

overview: Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.

character: Anna Bouverie

original_name: The Rector's Wife

The Morning Show

overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning, exploring the unique challenges faced by the men and women who carry out this daily televised ritual.

character: Martha Ellison

original_name: The Morning Show

Muck and Brass

overview: The story of a no-holds-barred, go-getting property dealer played by celebrated comedian Mel Smith, who has the view that everyone has a price though the price may not always be money.

character: Jean Torrode

original_name: Muck and Brass

White Heat

overview: In 1965, seven students meet and, despite being an assorted mix of people, become friends while they share a flat together in London. As time passes, their lives intertwine with each other as they feel the impact of political developments and the outbreak of war and disease.

character: Lilly (present day)

original_name: White Heat

Sherwood

overview: Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

overview: From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

A Discovery of Witches

overview: Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

The Hollow Crown

overview: A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.

The Leftovers

overview: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. This is the story of the people who didn't make the cut.

Shooting the Past

overview: A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.

Reilly: Ace of Spies

overview: Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatising the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th-century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

His Dark Materials

overview: Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Her search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen children and turns into a quest to understand a mysterious phenomenon called Dust. She is later joined on her journey by Will, a boy who possesses a knife that can cut windows between worlds. As she learns the truth about her parents and her prophesied destiny, the two young people are caught up in a war against celestial powers that ranges across many worlds.

The Death of Bunny Munro

overview: Travelling salesman Bunny Munro takes his son around Sussex following the death of his wife Libby. And while Bunny’s grief and his addictions threaten to derail their road trip entirely, a serial killer dressed as the Devil makes his own way down to Brighton.

Dick Turpin

overview: Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.

Mint

overview: Shannon is the only daughter of an infamous crime family that rules the region, a real-life princess who has never wanted for anything. But when she meets Arran, a member of a rival gang, their whirlwind romance begins to unravel the world she’s always known.

The Storyteller: Greek Myths

overview: A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.

Working Shakespeare

overview: How do we enter the heightened, extravagant language of Shakespeare and yet feel truthful in our contemporary world? How do performers excite the audience with Shakespeare's rich imagery and dynamic rhythm, yet make it real for the twenty-first century? We assume that a sophisticated intellectual background is required to grapple with Shakespeare. But there is a much deeper, almost primal response as available to inner-city students as to their counterparts in the private school to the sound and rhythm in Shakespeare's language which arouses our emotions: feelings of anger and sorrow, of passion and laughter. This landmark five-part video series gives voice to Shakespeare's most beloved and widely known speeches and sonnets, performed by a powerhouse ensemble of American and British actors, as they delve into the structure, meaning and power of Shakespeare's language.

Playhouse

overview: A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

BBC Play of the Month

overview: A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

Dead Head

overview: London based petty crook Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop-off, Eddie opens the package and finds a woman’s severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home, Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder.

Close to the Enemy

overview: A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.

Lost in Austen

overview: Lost in Austen is a four-part 2008 British miniseries written by Guy Andrews, that reimagines Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, where a contemporary London woman, Amanda Price, swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet, finding herself in the novel's 19th-century society and disrupting the classic story. In order to get back to her own time, Amanda must set the plot right.

Absolutely Fabulous

overview: Set in the world of fashion and PR, immature fun-loving mother Edina Monsoon and her best friend Patsy drive Eddie's sensible daughter, Saffron, up the wall with their constant drug abuse and outrageous selfishness. Numerous in-jokes and heavy doses of cruel humour have made this series a cult hit in the UK and abroad.

One-Upmanship

overview: A quintessentially British comedy-of-manners. Based at the fictional Yeovil College of Lifemanship, Richard Briers plays Stephen Potter and is joined by Peter Jones as the snooty Gatling-Fenn and Frederick Jaeger, complete with monocle, playing Cogg-Willoughby. "The world is divided into two types of people," Potter says, "winners and losers, the one-up and the one-down. He who is not one-up is surely one-down".

Travelling Man

overview: After completing a two-year prison sentence for a bribe he didn't take, former DI Alan Lomax wants answers. With at least one luxury left - a narrowboat, and it's on the canals, among the day trippers and travellers, that he means to seek revenge. Not an easy task for an ex-detective isolated on the wrong side of the law.

Playhouse Presents

overview: Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer with a different cast.

ITV Playhouse

overview: ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

The Play on One

overview: A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

ScreenPlay

overview:
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993.

Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Screen Two

overview: Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Deutsch

biography: Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE, ist eine schottische Bühnen- und Fernsehschauspielerin. Sie spielte in mehreren Stücken von Harold Pinter. Zu Duncans Filmografie gehören „Prick Up Your Ears“ (1987), „The Reflecting Skin“ (1990), „City Hall“ (1996), „Ein idealer Ehemann“, „Star Wars: Episode I – Die dunkle Bedrohung“, „Mansfield Park“ (alle 1999), „Unter der Sonne der Toskana“, „AfterLife“ (beide 2003), „Starter for 10“ (2006), Tim Burtons „Alice im Wunderland“ (2010), „About Time“ (2013), „Birdman“ (2014) und „Blackbird“ (2019).

biography:
Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE, (* 7. November 1950 in Edinburgh, Schottland) ist eine britische Schauspielerin.

Lindsay Duncan wurde am 7. November 1950 in Edinburgh geboren und besuchte die King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Später studierte sie an der Central School of Speech and Drama. Ihre Karriere begann sie am Theater, bevor sie in den 1980er Jahren auch in Fernsehproduktionen auftrat. Duncan ist Mitglied in der Royal Shakespeare Company und erhielt für ihre Rolle im Stück Private Lives im Jahr 2002 den Tony Award als beste Hauptdarstellerin.

Duncan ist mit dem Schauspieler Hilton McRae verheiratet, mit dem sie einen Sohn hat.

Italiano

biography: Lindsay Vere Duncan, CBE (nata il 7 novembre 1950) è un'attrice teatrale e televisiva scozzese e vincitrice di un Tony Award per Private Lives.

日本語

リンゼイ・ダンカン

biography: スコットランドのエディンバラ出身。ロンドンのセントラル・スクール・オブ・スピーチ・アンド・ドラマで演劇を学び、1970年代半ばから舞台やTVドラマに出演しはじめる。「ルース・コネクションズ」（83）で映画デビュー。87年にはブロードウェイデビューも果たし、2001年の舞台「私生活」でトニー賞とオリビエ賞を受賞した。映画「トスカーナの休日」（03）で国際的な注目を集める。以降、映画では「ウィークエンドはパリで」（13）に主演したほか、「アバウト・タイム　愛おしい時間について」（13）、アカデミー作品賞受賞作「バードマン　あるいは（無知がもたらす予期せぬ奇跡）」（14）、「アリス・イン・ワンダーランド　時間の旅」（16）、「gifted ギフテッド」（17）などの話題作にも助演。近年の出演作に「ブラックバード　家族が家族であるうちに」（19）などがある。

普通话

琳赛·邓肯

biography: Lindsay Vere Duncan，CBE（1950 年 11 月 7 日出生）是苏格兰舞台和电视女演员，曾获得托尼私人生活奖。

ελληνικά

Λίντσεϊ Ντάνκαν

biography: Η Λίντσεϊ Ντάνκαν (Lindsay Duncan) είναι Σκωτσέζα ηθοποιός του κινηματογράφου, της τηλεόρασης και του θεάτρου.

普通话

琳賽·鄧肯

biography: Lindsay Vere Duncan，CBE（1950 年 11 月 7 日出生）是蘇格蘭舞台和電視女演員，曾獲得託尼私人生活獎。

title: Frankenstein

overview: Frankenstein is a 2007 British television film produced by Impossible Pictures for ITV. It was written and directed by Jed Mercurio, adapted from Mary Shelley's original novel to a present-day setting. Dr. Victoria Frankenstein, a female geneticist, accidentally creates a monster while growing her son's clone from stem cells as an organ donor in an effort to prevent his imminent death.

title: Mansfield Park

overview: Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.

title: Under the Tuscan Sun

overview: Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.

title: Dirty Tricks

overview: Martin Clunes plays Edward, an English tutor at an Oxford language school. Seemingly charming and thoughtful, Edward is really a calculating liar and manipulator. A series of events triggered at a dinner party leads Edward down a very precarious and hilarious path.

title: The Reflecting Skin

overview: In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

title: Alice in Wonderland

overview: Alice, now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny.

title: Body Parts

overview: A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

title: Longford

overview: A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.

title: Margot

overview: At the age of forty Dame Margot Fonteyn is considered to be past her best as a prima ballerina and Ninette de Valois is reducing her roles at the Royal Ballet. Then the exciting young Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev, a recent defector to the West, comes into her life and her bed and revitalizes her career. Frederick Aashton creates a new ballet for them and they become the golden couple of the ballet world. However, Margot is married to Roberto 'Tito' Arias, a Panamanian politician of dubious repute who is not sympathetic to her calling and is probably faithless. When he is shot and paralyzed for life Margot must carry on dancing well into her sixties in order to pay for his costly treatment though she still collaborates with Rudolf in the occasional ballet.

title: Christopher and His Kind

overview: In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bills for the boy's sickly mother, to the disapproval of her other son, Nazi Gerhardt.

title: Last Call

overview: A desperate mother is trying to reconnect with her son. Navigating an obvious void, she will finally have the chance to ask the questions that have haunted her past, and will decide her future.

title: These Foolish Things

overview: Gutrune's romance with newspaper editor Nick Verney is hampered by the fact that he is still in love with the wife from whom he is separated. She finds that in affairs of the heart, advice is the last thing she needs.

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

overview: A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.

title: Burlesque Fairytales

overview: A fairytale thriller film set one night in a 1930's London theatre where all is not what it seems.

title: Last Passenger

overview: Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.

title: About Time

overview: The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

overview: Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack's 16th birthday. Her remarkable likeness to Jack's mother, Emily, who tragically died in an accident eight years ago both baffles and unsettles the family. She even wears the same pearls that Emily wore.

title: Le Week-End

overview: Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.

title: No Ordinary Joe

overview: The eccentric lesbian icon Joe Carstairs looks back on her adventurous life together with her faithful little companion, Lord Tod Wadley. The story unfolds in a mix of live action and puppet animation.

title: Further Up Pompeii

overview: A BBC TV comedy movie about the people living in Pompeii prior to its destruction by volcano, focusing on the life of a house slave (played by Frankie Howerd).  A sort of prequel to the 1971 movie "Up Pompeii"

title: Amish: A Secret Life

overview: Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.

title: Call Me Back

overview: Grace returns home from the funeral of her husband, George accompanied by her daughter, Lucy. Mother and daughter clash, leading Grace to attempt to mourn in isolation. Confronted by memories of happier times, she begins the process of cleansing the house - and herself - of the medical paraphernalia of the sick man she nursed. Ignoring phone calls from her daughter, she chaotically extends the purge of George's earthly manifestations beyond what she can bear. Faced with her error, she has a choice to make - to either continue on her destructive path, or reach out to her daughter for help.

title: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

overview: A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

original_title: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

overview: Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

original_title: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

title: The Childeater

overview: Eight-year old Betty is sent to stay with family on a remote Welsh farm, but her father has warned her that her uncle eats children who don't behave.

title: AfterLife

overview: High-flying journalist Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd) is working on the story that could make his career when he is told his mother is terminally ill. With his father no longer in the picture, this means that the responsibility for looking after his Down's Syndrome sister Roberta (Paula Sage) falls to him. Conflicted by career aspirations and the difficulties in caring for his sister, Kenny at first begins to resent Roberta, until he realizes just how much she means to him.

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

overview: Alice Kingsleigh returns to Underland and faces a new adventure in saving the Mad Hatter.

title: Margaret

overview: A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.

title: Grown-Ups

overview: Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.

title: The Winkler

overview: Set in the near future, civil servants are busy winkling out and repatriating all first generation immigrants. The attempt drowns in paper until the form-filling is curtailed in the name of efficiency.

title: Doctor Jekyll

overview: Recluse Dr. Nina Jekyll befriends with her newly hired help, Rob. They must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life.

title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

overview: The comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.

title: Churchill's Secret

overview: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.

title: On Approval

overview: Adaptation of the play by Frederick Lonsdale

title: Hamilton Mattress

overview: Sludger the aardvark tries to make it big as a drummer in the big city.

title: Loose Connections

overview: A woman enlists a man who claims he is gay to accompany her on a long drive to a feminist conference in Munich.

title: National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

overview: When a golden wedding anniversary reunites the Randolph family on the eve of WWII, Dora and Charles must reckon with the adults their children have become. Their children, meanwhile, are haunted by the memory of the family they once were. As the weekend's celebrations unfold, the family walks a tightrope between intimacy and estrangement, camaraderie and rivalry, love and hate. Heartbreaking and joyful, this captivating revival of Dodie Smith's play is a moving dissection of family and what it means to grow up and return home.

title: Gifted

overview: Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

title: Prick Up Your Ears

overview: When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more comfortable with his sexuality and starts to find success with his writing, Halliwell becomes increasingly alienated and jealous, ultimately tapping into a dangerous rage.

title: Redemption

overview: After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

overview: Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.

title: Starter for 10

overview: In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching University Challenge, a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.

title: Harold Pinter:  A Celebration

overview: In June 2009, a group Britain's leading actors gathered for one night only to perform a celebration of the work of Harold Pinter at the National Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson. The team who made the acclaimed  Harold Pinter documentaries for BBC's Arena was there to record this unique performance.

title: Manifesto

overview: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.

title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past

overview: It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

title: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

overview: In a Mars base, the inhabitants are being infected by a mysterious water creature which takes over its victims. The Doctor is thrust into the middle of this catastrophe, knowing a larger one is waiting around the corner.

title: An Ideal Husband

overview: Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

title: Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

overview: Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional life there and to share with her daughter the experiences which inform all her writing.

title: Rainy Day Women

overview: In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.

title: Expelling the Demon

overview: The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue. Tongue being the articulator of the man’s voice, has been his lifetime proxy. But it is beginning to brazenly assert itself and fly in the face of its owner. The man can tolerate this no more and a power struggle ensues during which we learn something of the tongues dubious nature.

title: My Zoe

overview: Isabelle, a geneticist recovering from a toxic marriage, is raising her only daughter, Zoe, with her contentious ex-husband. Zoe means everything to her mother and so when tragedy strikes the fractured family, Isabelle travels to Russia in seeking the help of a world-renowned fertility physician who Isabelle believes can help bring back her little girl.

title: Lawless

overview: It's Lila Pettitt's first day as the youngest female judge the British court system's ever seen. Fiercely ambitious, Lila's determined to dispense real justice, not just obey the letter of the law.  But a shocking betrayal by her mentor, Will Carlisle QC, makes Lila realise that the legal world she's devoted her life to is far murkier than she ever could have imagined.

title: City Hall

overview: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

title: Blackbird

overview: A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

title: Little Joe

overview: Alice, a single mother who is more dedicated to her work as a genetic engineer than to her teenage son Joe, develops a new variety of flower that is supposed to have the ability to make its owner happy thanks to its special chemical properties.

title: National Theatre Live: Hansard

overview: It's a summer's morning in 1988 and Tory politician Robin Hesketh has returned home to the idyllic Cotswold house he shares with his wife of 30 years, Diana. But all is not as blissful as it seems. Diana has a stinking hangover, a fox is destroying the garden, and secrets are being dug up all over the place. As the day draws on, what starts as gentle ribbing and the familiar rhythms of marital scrapping quickly turns to blood-sport.

title: November 1st

overview: A woman and her angry mother travel together to the execution of a man they never met.

title: Made in Italy

overview: A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.

title: A Banquet

overview: Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.

title: Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

overview: Dramatised documentary which describes the police investigation that led to the conviction of David Mulcahy for the notorious Railway Murders in the 1980s of three young women in the London area and for the rapes of many others. This investigation was based largely on the testimony of John Duffy to a psychologist in prison where he was serving life after being convicted of the same offences ten years earlier, having denied at the time of his trial that he had had an accomplice (Mulcahy). -Anonymous

title: He Does Not Want Peace

overview: When a man witnesses a profound event, it threatens to destroy his family.

title: These Foolish Things

overview: Two men in an arctic weather station: one man lives with his dreams of a girlfriend past, the other with an inflatable doll

title: The Entertainment System Is Down

overview: Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international passengers are forced to face the horror of being bored.

title: Alma

overview: A family embarks on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist. As they pitch camp at one of the archaeologist's sites, sibling rivalries and buried tensions arise.

title: H Is for Hawk

overview: After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.

title: Samson and Delilah

overview: Based on the story from DH Lawrence set during the time of the Great War in Cornwall. When a dapper gent alights from a bus and enters the local pub, he is thrown out by the landlady. Is he really her long lost husband or a secret Bosch spy rumoured to be in the area?

title: Daughter of Eden

overview: In 2006 London, a British-Iraqi nurse's need for answers draws her deep into another family’s life, after a chance encounter with an older woman she suspects is connected to her parents’ fate in Iraq.

title: RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

overview: Cicely Berry’s Working Shakespeare masterclass

The Waters of Mars

overview: The Doctor joins forces with his oldest companion on record when a military base comes under attack from sentient, dangerous waters. It may be another stand against immeasurable odds, but waiting in the wings for the Time Lord is a sign all songs must end....

title: Frankenstein

title: Mansfield Park

title: Under the Tuscan Sun

title: Dirty Tricks

title: The Reflecting Skin

title: Alice in Wonderland

title: Body Parts

title: Longford

title: Margot

title: Christopher and His Kind

title: Last Call

title: These Foolish Things

title: A Midsummer Night's Dream

title: Burlesque Fairytales

title: Last Passenger

title: About Time

title: The Queen of Sheba's Pearls

title: Le Week-End

title: No Ordinary Joe

title: Further Up Pompeii

title: Amish: A Secret Life

title: Call Me Back

title: The Childeater

title: AfterLife

title: Alice Through the Looking Glass

title: Margaret

title: Grown-Ups

title: The Winkler

title: Doctor Jekyll

title: Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings

title: Churchill's Secret

title: On Approval

title: Hamilton Mattress

title: Loose Connections

title: National Theatre Live: Dear Octopus

title: Gifted

title: Prick Up Your Ears

title: Redemption

title: Mike Leigh: Making Plays

title: Starter for 10

title: Harold Pinter:  A Celebration

title: Manifesto

title: Carnage: Swallowing the Past

title: Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars

title: An Ideal Husband

title: Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

title: Rainy Day Women

title: Expelling the Demon

title: My Zoe

title: Lawless

title: City Hall

title: Blackbird

title: Little Joe

title: National Theatre Live: Hansard

title: November 1st

title: Made in Italy

title: A Banquet

title: Witness of Truth: The Railway Murders

title: He Does Not Want Peace

title: These Foolish Things

title: The Entertainment System Is Down

title: Alma

title: H Is for Hawk

title: Samson and Delilah

title: Daughter of Eden

title: RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare