Screenplay: Alan Bennett

Direction Nicholas Hytner · Marianne Elliott · Jeremy Herrin · Jonathan Kent

Cast Jodie Comer · Monica Dolan · Martin Freeman · Tamsin Greig

Plot Widely celebrated as Alan Bennett's masterpieces, his multi-award-winning Talking Heads return to BBC One. Filmed during lockdown under social distancing guidelines, a new generation of Britain's finest actors star in...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Gary Oldman · Alfred Molina · Vanessa Redgrave · Wallace Shawn

Plot This unadorned biography of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) charts his bawdy, dangerous relationships. Alfred Molina plays Orton's brutish lover, Kenneth Halliwell, a pathetic figure who becomes horrific and then...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast James Fox · David Calder · Geoffrey Palmer · Prunella Scales

Plot A dramatization of the true story of Sir Anthony Blunt, curator of Queen Elizabeth II's art collection until he confessed in 1964 to being a Soviet spy.

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Nigel Hawthorne · Helen Mirren · Ian Holm · Rupert Everett

Plot A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Alan Bates · Coral Browne · Charles Gray · Harold Innocent

Plot Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Maggie Smith · Alex Jennings · Jim Broadbent · Dominic Cooper

Plot A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.

Direction Nicholas Hytner

Cast Samuel Anderson · Samuel Barnett · Dominic Cooper · James Corden

Plot Based on Alan Bennett's superb screenplay, directed by Nicholas Hytner and starring the original National Theatre cast members, including Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Stephan Campbell Moore and Clive...

Direction Malcolm Mowbray

Cast Michael Palin · Maggie Smith · Denholm Elliott · Richard Griffiths

Plot Life isn't easy in 1947 Yorkshire where strict post-war rationing is putting the squeeze on the townspeople. But when a married working-class couple (Palin and Smith) discovers that the town...

Direction Giles Foster

Cast Marjorie Yates · Alun Armstrong · Susan Hopkins · Gary Carp

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Dave Allen · Robert Stephens · Dominic Guard · Benjamin Whitrow

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast John Moffatt · Isabel Dean · Philip Stone · Frank Grimes

Direction Stephen Frears

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

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · David Bradley · Jennifer Saunders · Derek Jacobi

Plot The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.

Direction Stuart Burge · Giles Foster

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Jonathan Stedall

Cast Alan Bennett

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

Direction Don Taylor · Alan Cooke · Stephen Frears · Leonard Lewis

Cast Judi Dench · Richard O'Callaghan · Frederick Treves · John Shrapnel

Plot TV Series (1977- ). 38 episodies.

Direction Stephen Frears

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

Plot 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...

Direction Les Blair · Robert Young · Robert Bierman · Dewi Humphreys

Cast Alfred Molina · Geraldine James · Timothy West · Sean Bean

Plot (1985-2002). 6 seasons. Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making films for...

Direction Stephen Frears

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

Plot 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...

Direction Stuart Burge

Cast Thora Hird · Eileen Atkins · David Haig · Patricia Routledge

Plot 6 Episodes. Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television and first broadcasted in 1988. Its episodes are: "A Cream Cracker under the Settee", "The Hand...