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When tap water turns toxic in Cornwall, a public health disaster leads to accusations of a cover-up and the search for the truth. The story of Britain’s biggest mass poisoning.
Nov 2025
A comedy about the celebrated 18th century comedienne, Kitty Clive.
Mar 1956
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
Aug 1959
Short film featuring the band The Housemartins made by the BBC in August 1986 and broadcast on 20th September as part of the programme called "Rock Around the Clock." Includes behind the scenes discussions and interview in Hull as well as live musical performances. This programme also includes the following songs: The Mighty Ship Sheep We're Not Deep Think For A Minute Caravan Of Love (acapella) Drop Down Dead* Get Up Off Our Knees* Anxious* Flag Day* Me and the Farmer* Rap Around The Clock* Think For A Minute (different version) *Live performance at the Tower Nightclub in Hull 24th August, 1986
Sep 1986
Film "The Poet" based on the one-act play Il Poeta by Dario Niccodemi.
Oct 1960
Russia's Space Race success is mainly due to a brilliant rocket scientist, Kuprin. But a journalist and a politician in London remember him as a fervent Anglophile who had to leave Britain under duress. Can he be persuaded to return?.
Jun 1961
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.
A diva of the Paris stage transforms her mousy daughter-in-law into an attractive ingenue to spite her hated son, away on military service.
Jan 1960
BBC follows Emma Bunton on her trip to Mumbai, India, where she will record two films (Pyaar Mein Twist and Chocolate). For four weeks Bunton assimilates into Indian culture and participates in several interviews to promote her debut in Bollywood. Meanwhile, the Indian actress Sameera Reddy goes to UK to record the medical drama series Casualty.
Jun 2005
Black Wednesday occurred in the United Kingdom on 16 September 1992, when John Major's Conservative government was forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) after it was unable to keep the pound above its agreed lower limit in the ERM.
Jan 1997