Old Lady Dealer #2
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.
Jeff's Mam
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
Mrs. Foggan
A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Bus Conductress
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Salvation Army Lady
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
Mrs Pennington
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Striker
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.