El misionero John H. Groberg regresa a Tonga en los años 60 con su mujer y sus cinco hijas. El nacimiento de su sexto hijo trae ciertas complicaciones que pondrán a prueba su fe.
Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?
A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When a shipyard closes, Liam and Teresa's dad loses his job. Liam, who's about 8, making his first Holy Communion, gets a regular dose of fire and brimstone at church. Teresa, about 13, has a job as a maid to the Jewish family that owns the closed shipyard. The lady of that house is having an affair, and Teresa becomes an accomplice. Liam stutters terribly, especially when troubled. Dad comes under the sway of the Fascists, who blame cheap Irish labor and Jewish owners. A Molotov cocktail brings things to a head.
Isla de Santa Elena, 1821. Un grupo de leales bonapartistas organizan el regreso del Emperador a París; mientras tanto, un doble se hará pasar por él en la isla. Según lo previsto, cuando el Emperador llegara a París, su doble confesaría ser un impostor, y Napoleón reclamaría el trono de Francia. Haciéndose pasar por el marinero Eugene Lenormand, Napoleón parte hacia París. Pero los acontecimientos no se desarrollan según lo planeado. El barco cambia de destino y Napoleón pierde el contacto con sus partidarios. Finalmente, al llegar a París, solo y sin amigos, conoce a una viuda vendedora de melones con la que mantiene una relación que cambiará sus vidas; mientras tanto, Napoleón aguarda con impaciencia que llegue su momento.
A Government Department with data on us all in its computers is not functioning quite as its ex-Head intended. Frank Strange sets out to clear his own name and finds he is investigating a murder.
One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.
