Screenplay: David Rudkin

Direction Alan Clarke

Cast Georgine Anderson · John Atkinson · Spencer Banks · Moray Black

Plot Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with...

Direction Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Cast Donal McCann · Saskia Reeves · Ciarán Hinds · Patrick Malahide

Plot At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers. Pregnant, she refuses to reveal the name of...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Liam Neeson · Wendy Morgan · Jay Hilalen · Sandra Voe

Plot When Martin 's adopted daughter is kidnapped from their English home by a mysterious figure from Ireland, Martin decides to go in pursuit and finds himself across the water exploring...

Direction John Michael Phillips

Cast Malcolm Storry · Valerie Gogan · Jason Durr · Marc Warren

Plot One Christmas, a knight garbed all in green appears in King Arthur's Court and challenges any knight to hew off his head on the proviso that he be allowed to...

Direction Alastair Reid

Cast Hywel Bennett · Dinah Stabb · Dan O'Herlihy · Ian Redford

Plot Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael....

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Ben Kingsley · Sherry Baines · Magdalen Asquith · Mark Asquith

Plot The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast Edward Petherbridge · Lalla Ward · Preston Lockwood · Barbara Ewing

Plot An episode in the BBC's annual A Ghost Story for Christmas strand. After taking up his inheritance, Sir Richard Dickin is haunted by dreams of his ancestor Sir Matthew Dickin...

Direction Phil Agland

Cast Rufus Sewell · Emily Woof · Cal Macaninch · Tony Haygarth

Plot The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now...