Sarah Badel
Nacimiento : 1943-03-30, London, England, UK
Queen
Thibault, un noble medieval francés y su prometida sufren un terrible contratiempo el mismo día de su boda. Desesperado y afligido, Thibault implora a un brujo que le administre la poción que permite viajar en el tiempo y así poder volver atrás para impedir la tragedia acaecida. Sin embargo, un pequeño error envía al enamorado aristócrata y su fiel escudero 800 años en el futuro... hasta el Chicago de nuestros días.
Mrs Evans
A British family is trapped between culture, tradition, and the colonial sins of the past.
Lady Rosseter
Adaptación de la novela homónima de la escritora inglesa Virginia Woolf. La acción transcurre en Londres. A lo largo de todo un día del año 1923, Clarissa Dalloway recuerda su pasado mientras prepara una gran fiesta. Poco antes de que empiecen a llegar los invitados, vuelve a aparecer en su vida un pretendiente al que rechazó treinta años antes.
Lady Julia Fish
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
The Widow
Alan Bleasdale's modern re-telling of Madame Bovary. A tale of passion, greed, revenge, and of course pleasure, set in France. Starring Line of Duty's Adrian Dunbar, Jennifer Ehle and James Larkin. In the French city of Rouen, the beautiful, young but bored Emma seeks to escape her dull married life. Her dreams are answered, and her comfortable, peaceful existence soon tarnished when she answers a lonely-hearts ad. She meets Gustave, a unsuccessful toy salesman, and potential con man. Together they begin a passionate affair, where they indulge in illicit sex and illegal scams. But parallel to their exhilarating affair, the police are on the hunt for a mysterious masked robber known only as Le Terroriste. As the stakes rise, and a betrayal means Emma finding herself alone, her own talents for deception develop into an overwhelming and obsessive desire for her to get her revenge.
Nicole
Basada en una historia real. En 1984, el marido de Betty se llevó a su esposa y a su hija a Irán para que conocieran a su familia, de religión musulmana. Les prometió que estarían a salvo, que serían felices y que serían libres de regresar a los Estados Unidos cuando quisieran.
Ida Nettleby
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
Olwen Peel
An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft.
Alice Pike
The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.
Katherine
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista declares that he won't give Bianca away in a marriage until he's found a husband for Kate, so all the suitors begin busily hunting out a madman who's willing to do it, and they find Petruchio: a man who's come to wive it wealthily in Padua. And Petruchio marries Kate with a plan to tame her, while everybody else begins scheming to win Bianca's hand.
Virginia
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Nicola
For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.
Madge Wakely
Elderly novelist asks disliked guest to be literary editor.
Joanna Snow
Teddy trabaja para una empresa de publicidad. Como le parece imposible vender gachas congeladas, decide producir anuncios con carga erótica para vender el producto. Esto conduce a un enfrentamiento con un movimiento conservador del que su esposa es miembro fundador. Se producen más problemas cuando la familia contrata a una niñera sueca...
Natasha
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.
Perdita
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.