Peter Ball was a bishop, serial rapist, and friend of the establishment and Price Charles. This is the story about how the Anglican church tried to cover up the whole scandal and help him let off punishment.
A punto de retirarse, una mujer de la clase media descubre que su marido ha estado teniendo una aventura con su mejor amiga, y por ello decide irse con su hermana bohemia, que vive en una zona empobrecida.
Interspersed with a commentary by a female narrator,who at times assumes their roles,the father,mother and daughter and son of a black,South London family commence their day and we follow them through it in all its mundanity until it climaxes in a random act of violence,killing one of the family and taking up the after-math.
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Sigue la vida de William Wilberforce, en su cruzada en el Parlamento para abolir la esclavitud en la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX.
In 1998 former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet visits Britain for medical treatment. On being tipped off, Amnesty International seize the chance to bring to justice a man they insist is guilty of multiple human rights violations. The newly-elected Labour government is initially amenable, and soon Pinochet is under house arrest (albeit in a detached house in leafy suburbia) and awaiting extradition to Spain. However, Amnesty are up against the complexities of British law, the vacillations of Home Secretary Jack Straw, Pinochet's former ally Margaret Thatcher - and the Senator's own vast reserves of cunning.
