La historia comienza el 28 de junio 1914, un ingeniero de minas y un oficial de inteligencia durante la Segunda Guerra , se encuentran en Londres tras su reciente regreso de África.
Fanáticos terroristas están planeando lanzar un ataque nuclear con una bomba casera radioactiva en el corazón de Londres. Desde Scootland Yard, hasta un detective árabe de los bajos fondos y autoridades locales, todos se mantiene alerta, mientras los agentes del gobierno blindan la ciudad, buscando desesperadamente el origen de la acción.
A Catholic girl finds herself in trouble in the ultra conservative Ireland of the 60s; a country where women are punished if they become pregnant out of wedlock.
Two young people, Daniel and Samantha, are selected in a television show to marry. They have never seen each other ever. After the wedding ceremony took place on television, then married life really starts. To collect the price money of one million pounds, they have to stay together for at least six months.
How far will she go for money? "Don't you see, Billy, people like them owe people like us." Young, beautiful and living on the breadline with a feckless husband and a sickly child, Angela Harper decides to take matters into her own hands in order to save her family from the poverty trap. She hits on the perfect plan after noticing a newspaper feature on the once divorced and once widowed lord, Sir Fabian Ormoerod. She will marry the man and then hit him for a massive divorce settlement. And so the stunning Ms Angela Harper, successful lingerie buyer with an alluring independent streak is born...
Pubs, pigeons, weight-lifting - that's Terry's life, and his wife Glenda feels neglected. But now Terry's best mate, Albert, is on leave from the Merchant Navy, and Albert knows how to treat a lady. 'Fireworks assured,' says the wrestling poster.