Cast: Alan Bennett

Direction Jonathan Miller

Cast Anne-Marie Mallik · Freda Dowie · Jo Maxwell Muller · Wilfrid Brambell

Synopsis 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, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe. Miller's...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Sandra Bullock · Chris O'Donnell · Margot Steinberg · Alan Bennett

Synopsis Reporter Ernest Hemingway is an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. While bravely risking his life in the line of duty, he is injured and ends up in the hospital, where he falls in love with his nurse,...

Direction Jim Clark

Cast Marty Feldman · Judy Cornwell · Garry Miller · Shelley Berman

Synopsis Teddy works for a large advertising company. Given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge, he decides to produce commercials which make the product seem sexy. This leads him into confrontation with the "Keep Television Clean" movement, of which...

Direction Tina Flintoff · Ricky Kelehar

Cast Morrissey · Christopher Eccleston · J.K. Rowling · Michael Bracewell

Synopsis Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and deliciously melancholic bard. This is Morrissey, the charming man with the thorn in his side.

Direction William Nicholson · Judy Jackson · Hugh David · Nikki Stockley

Cast Peter France · Joan Bakewell · Spike Milligan · Jeremy Paxman

Synopsis Everyman is a British television documentary series that aired on BBC One in a late-night slot on Sunday evenings between 1977 and 2000. Its subject matter tended to be focused on moral and religious issues, often in the form of...

Direction Peter Wood

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael Redgrave · Margaret Leighton · Richard Johnson

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Alan Bennett · Richard O'Callaghan · Tenniel Evans · Bryan Marshall

Synopsis 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. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a...

Direction Maurice Hatton

Cast Charles Gormley · Neville Smith · Ann Zelda · David Stone

Synopsis A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes…

Direction Alastair Reid

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Alexei Sayle · Alison Doody · Tom Baker

Synopsis In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a bloodhound reporter for the German magazine Stern, believes he has stumbled onto the greatest literary find of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Shrouded in secrecy, Heidemann and the men of Stern attempt...

Direction Marilyn Fox · Angela Beeching · Pauline Carter · Susan Ball

Cast Bernard Cribbins · Ray Smith · Rodney Bewes · Bernard Holley

Synopsis A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Neville Smith · Julie Walters · Thora Hird · Carol MacReady

Direction Christopher Morahan · Alvin Rakoff

Cast Gillian Barge · Nicholas Jones · Simon Russell Beale · Robin Bailey

Synopsis 4 episodes. Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.

Direction James Cellan Jones

Cast Emma Thompson · Kenneth Branagh · Charles Kay · Mark Drewry

Synopsis Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty,...

Direction Stuart Burge · Giles Foster

Cast Steven Beard · Alan Bennett · Stephanie Cole · Thora Hird

Synopsis 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 hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.

Direction Jonathan Stedall

Cast Alan Bennett

Synopsis Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Henry Man · Benjamin Whitrow · Neville Smith · Angela Morant

Synopsis 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 in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast David Waller · James Cossins · John Normington · Philip Locke

Synopsis A Day Out - Alan Bennett's debut play for television follows the members of a Halifax cycling club, on an outing from Halifax to the ruins of Fountains Abbey. Set in the summer of 1911 and projects an idyllic vision...

Direction Margy Kinmonth

Cast Alan Bennett · Tamsin Greig · Robert Macfarlane · Ai Weiwei

Synopsis ERIC RAVILIOUS - DRAWN TO WAR is the first major feature film about Eric Ravilious (1903-1942), the much loved but hugely underestimated British Official War Artist artist, killed in a plane crash over Iceland in 1942

Direction Adam Low

Cast Alan Bennett · Nicholas Hytner · Sue Powell · Rupert Thomas

Synopsis Documentary following Bennett over the course of year as he publishes his latest volume of diaries. Features a trip to New York to receive an award from the city's public library, a national radio appearance and a visit to his...

Direction Patrick Garland

Cast Alan Bennett · Alan Badel · Nigel Stock · Patience Collier

Synopsis 6 episodes. Six literary immortals are brought to life by six well-known actors.