Celebrating Play for Today, the acclaimed series of controversial single dramas broadcast on BBC One between 1970 and 1984
Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner
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 Mandys unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not
Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre neighbor and irritating workmate
A short comedy by Mike Leigh about the romance between a young woman and a man who communicates only through jokes and humor The story is told as a series of very short vignettes between
A middle class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them
A quiet and put upon house cleaner breaks her silence
Slice of life look at class divisions among employees at a brokerage house
Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family
2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro democracy rally in Manchester
Members of a family lives frantic lives of Olympian proportion
When one brother gets a job from their wealthy aunt, the other becomes increasingly jealous
In a poor working class London home Pennys love for her partner, taxi driver Phil, has run dry, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they and their local community are brought together, and they rediscover their love
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J M W Turners life
The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family
An unemployed Mancunian vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musicaltheatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her
A shop assistant, her cook husband, amp their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working class suburb north of London
A look at four seasons in the lives of a happily married couple and their relationships with their family and friends
Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London
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