Born in 1914, Dylan Thomas was an unruly and undisciplined child who was interested only in English at school and was determined from childhood to...

The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this documentary about spies in fact and fiction,...

Using a trove of archive photographs and film, Kureishi reflects on his father’s experiences as an immigrant in the post-war years, his own...

Documentary portrait of the life of playwright Joe Orton, who was murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in April 1967.

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.

Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist. While on the high seas he takes on a...

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.

Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.

The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.

The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the...

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that...

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that...

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

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.

Charlie Alexander is a private detective who gets caught up in sinister trade union machinations when he stumbles across the dying Stan Peace, a shop...

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council...

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...

A couple's break-up has dramatic effects on their thirteen-year-old son.

Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton are two teenagers in their final year of secondary school at a comprehensive in Hackney in 1977. Energetic, anxious and...

A young man is reunited with his father, who has been presumed dead for ten years, and then tries to unravel the truth behind his disappearance.

Ten-part series is set in 12th Century Europe. It begins when King Richard I is shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of Trieste. His disappearance...

Ten-part series is set in 12th Century Europe. It begins when King Richard I is shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of Trieste. His disappearance...

This four-part historical drama follows the end of Catherine the Great's reign and her affair with Russian military leader Grigory Potemkin that...

Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton are two teenagers in their final year of secondary school at a comprehensive in Hackney in 1977. Energetic, anxious and...

A couple's break-up has dramatic effects on their thirteen-year-old son.

A young man is reunited with his father, who has been presumed dead for ten years, and then tries to unravel the truth behind his disappearance.

The director of a a film about witchcraft gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.

Henry Farr, a Wimbledon solicitor desperate to rid himself of his wife, settles on murder as a solution to his problem.

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and her relationships with the Earl of Leicester and the Earl of Essex.

Captain Wolf Larsen, the notorious Sea Wolf who rules the crew of his ship, the Ghost, with an iron fist. While on the high seas he takes on a...

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the...

Ten-part series is set in 12th Century Europe. It begins when King Richard I is shipwrecked somewhere off the coast of Trieste. His disappearance...