Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights.

In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due...

In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre 's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies...

The true story of Greville Wynne, the British businessman who doubled as a spy on his trips to Russia, and Colonel Penkovsky, the high-ranking Soviet...

A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.

This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and...

A police computer expert is seconded to Belfast to track down the identity of an IRA mole.

A new government takes power with a drastically reduced majority. But the ambitious young Home Secretary has a plan to bring the legal establishment...

Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair...

School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for...

Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. This 1988 film set In 1967 when Campbell broke the 300mph water speed barrier in his beloved...

Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling books of all time. In the 20th century, only the...

A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.

Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the...

A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the...

Nell tries hard to cope with her husband, family and friends - but her asthma creates problems. Everyone seems to be helpful - but are they? Is there...

In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...

The play tells the story of Christine Potts, who undergoes an unexpected mastectomy, and struggles to cope with the aftermath and the deficiencies of...

Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding—Cotswold style. Who is...