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After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful...
In Love and War
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and...
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
A TV version of the stage show originally performed at the Edinburgh Fringe (August 1960) and in London (Fortune Theatre, May 1961) and Broadway...
Beyond the Fringe
The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at...
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums –...
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. “marvelous, engrossing tribute” Allison...
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
Kenneth Grahame's literary classic about an enchanting world along the Riverbank has delighted readers for nearly a century. Now, this enduring...
The Wind in the Willows
Hailed as the "rightful heir" to "The Wind in the Willows", William Horwood's critically acclaimed sequel comes to magical life in this beautifully...
The Willows in Winter
One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland...
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop...
Selling Hitler
The Bafta-winning Stewart Lee performs his latest touring show, focusing on a bizarrely erroneous description of his work on Netflix and a...
Stewart Lee: Tornado
Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books and their readers? Alan Yentob discusses the...
Books: The Last Chapter?
When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be...
Intensive Care
Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...
Afternoon Off
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a...
Talking Heads
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of...
The Madness of King George
Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a dream,...
Mouse and Mole at Christmas Time
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young...
Little Dorrit
Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...
Alice in Wonderland
The Young Visiters, written in twelve days by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford in 1890, is a surreal blend of naiveté, precocious perception and...
The Young Visiters
Eighty-year-old Alice Hargreaves is about to visit Columbia University to attend a reception in honor of author Lewis Carroll. As a child, Alice had...
Dreamchild
A documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the preservation of archive television.
The Native Hue of Resolution
Documentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the film features a number of intimate encounters with...
Alan Bennett's Diaries
Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and deliciously...
The Importance of Being Morrissey
To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the National Theatre of Great Britain presents National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage, bringing together the best...
National Theatre Live: 50 Years on Stage
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Sam was born with an extremely rare genetic disorder called Familial Dysautonomia. When born, he had 50 per cent chance of making it to his fifth...
My Friend Sam: Living for the Moment
Documentary providing a rare glimpse into the life of Alan Bennett, one of the UK's best-loved writers, with interviews, archive footage and new work.
Being Alan Bennett
Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials that...
Every Home Should Have One
Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and...
Long Shot
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is...
A Visit from Miss Prothero
Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.
Portrait or Bust
Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in boarding-houses...
Dinner at Noon
This animated clip comments on different educational opportunities for boys and girls, and points out the positive impact of making all opportunities...
Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page....
The Merry Wives of Windsor
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’...
The Lady in the Van
Julie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous.
Julie Walters and Friends
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...
The Drinking Party
Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following surges of popularity - from...
Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety
In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of Britain's best-loved playwrights. Part frank reflection...
Alan Bennett: 90 Years On