Iain Cuthbertson

Welcome to the extraordinary world of Robert Burns, Scotland's National Poet. Presented by Iain Cuthbertson, this unique video tells the story of the tortured genius whose poverty and passion gave birth to some of literature's greatest works.

En Glasgow, Toni Cocozza, de 28 años, aspira a ser cantante de lounge; Su repertorio es estrictamente Sinatra, respaldado por Bill, un viejo pianista y su único amigo. Toni sueña en grande y entra en un programa de talentos de la televisión local. En ese momento, un jefe de la mafia local decide que Toni es un gran entretenimiento y lo invita a ser su invitado en un casino. Toni conversa con Irene, una chica de los cigarrillos, él o ella tiene uno o dos trabajos extraños de parte de Chisolm, el número dos del mafioso, la audición fracasa y el futuro de Toni es incierto. Una cosa lleva a la otra con la mafia. ¿Está Toni en una encrucijada, o en realidad no hay vuelta o retroceso?

Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors that Tichborne survived and settled in Australia. An alcoholic ruffian answer's Bogle's inquiries claiming to be the lost heir. Bogle suspects fraud, but conspires with the claimant to split the inheritance should the latter succesfully pass himself off to friends, family and the courts. As the claimant returns to England to continue his charade, enough people confirm his identity to make both the claimant and Bogle believe that he just might be the rightful heir after all.

The Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden.

En Inglaterra, corriendo la década de los 50, el torpe Derek Bentley se incorpora a un grupo de delincuentes menores que lidera Chris Craig, un adolescente que se deshace por los filmes de gángsteres norteamericanos. La amistad que surge entre ambos les conduce hacia la implicación en un caso auténtico en el que el jurado condenó a muerte a Derek Bentley por el asesinato de un oficial de la policía pistola en mano. El caso Bentley hizo mella en la conciencia social de Inglaterra poniendo en duda la razón de ser de la pena capital.

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.

Esta es la verdadera historia del caso Profumo, el escándalo sexual que hizo tambalear los cimientos del Reino Unido en 1963, en plena Guerra Fría. Todo comenzó en el momento en que Christine Keller, una bella bailarina, entra en contacto con las más altas esferas de la sociedad británica gracias a su íntima amistad con el famoso osteópata, Stephen Ward. En una de las fiestas del partido conservador conoce a John Profumo, Secretario de Estado para la Guerra, con el que comienza una relación furtiva. Los problemas surgen cuando el MI5 descubre que la muchacha mantiene una relación paralela con un agregado militar de la embajada soviética.

La historia de Dian Fossey, una científica que llegó a África para estudiar una especie en extinción: los gorilas de montaña. Dian quedó fascinada con estos animales y dedicó el resto de su vida a protegerlos de los cazadores furtivos y las propias autoridades.

A group of children and their teachers from a Protestant school in Northern Ireland go on a trip to Paris.

An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.

Because of her cheating husband, Elizabeth elicits patronizing "pity" from her so-called friends, but they (and he) don't suspect her plans.

Like NIGHT OF THE DEMON, this adaptation is based only very loosely on the original ghost story by M.R. James. However, it does feature eerie scenic views and is directed by Lawrence 'Ghost Story for Christmas' Gordon Clark.

The Doctor is summoned by the mysterious and powerful White Guardian, and sent on a quest to find the six segments of the Key to Time, which, once assembled, will restore balance to the Universe. Joining the Doctor and K9 is the smart and sassy Romana, a Time Lord fresh from the Academy. Landing on the wintry planet of Ribos to locate the first segment, the TARDIS crew quickly find themselves embroiled in a little local trouble with a pair of conmen and an unstable warlord...

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election and later discovers his financed by the corporation that has dispossessed him of his business.

Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.

A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...

A principios del siglo XX, una familia tiene que mudarse a Londres desde la campiña inglesa donde siempre han residido, debido a que el padre es falsamente acusado de vender secretos de estado a los rusos, y es encarcelado durante 5 años. Sus tres hijos, Roberta, Peter y Phyllis, pasan el tiempo viendo ir y venir los trenes y saludando a los pasajeros con la mano. Así es como traban amistad con un anciano señor que siempre toma el tren de las 09:45, y que ayudará a la familia a probar la inocencia del padre.