Gabrielle Daye
Nacimiento : 1911-10-02, Manchester, England, UK
Muerte : 2005-01-05
Winnie
It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liverpool where a group of Irish Protestant and Irish Catholic pensioners will gather to clash and bash the new year in.
Mrs. Ingrams
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
Nellie Cannon
Pollitt: "You know the nuts and bolts of our policy?" Les Cannon: "To penetrate the unions. To use all sorts of stratagems, manoeuvres, illegal measures, evasions, subterfuges, to carry on Communist activities inside them at all cost."
Mrs. Burnett
En una ciudad minera de Yorkshire, tres hermanos universitarios vuelven a casa de sus padres proletarios para celebrar su 40 aniversario de boda, pero oscuros secretos les aguardan...
Mam
A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
Elderly Lady
Based on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
Mrs. Calthrop
Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
Ethel
When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
Mrs Lynch
En el Londres de la posguerra una joven pareja y su bebé encuentran un hogar en el número 10 de Rillington Place, una preciosa vivienda cuyo inquilino del piso inferior, John Reginald Christie, resulta de lo más inquietante. Lo que desconocen ambos es su violento historial de asesinatos en serie de mujeres mediante gas y sus posteriores actos necrófilos, impulsos criminales que Beryl acabará reavivando en su mente.
Lilly
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.
Ruby Birtle
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.