Margaret Matheson

Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many who created the series, including producers Kenith Trodd, Margaret Matheson and Richard Eyre, and directors Mike Leigh, David Hare and Ken Loach.

Un ex boyracer que se casó con su primer amor y tomó un trabajo en una de las fábricas de pescado, ahora tiene un hijo de 17 años que sigue sus pasos y ya no puede ignorar el hecho de que no va a ninguna parte. Incapaz de estar presente física o emocionalmente con su familia, saca el auto de su hijo para un último viaje de alegría y corre el riesgo de perder el amor que lo rodea.

What happened when we built Utopia? New Town Utopia is feature documentary about the power of art, architecture, the state of the nation – and some rather angry puppets.

A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

La historia de Shell, una chica que vive con su padre Pete en una remota gasolinera en las Highlands escocesas, de su lucha contra los elementos y del imposible amor que sienten padre e hija durante un invierno que será el último que ella pase en ese lugar. El escocés Scott Graham debuta en el largometraje con una adaptación de su corto Shell, ganador en el London Short Film Festival. (FILMAFFINITY)

A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.

Corre la primavera de 1945, y el ejército alemán se derrumba por momentos. Las fuerzas aliadas están entrando por todo el país, y así, con sus padres ausentes y el Tercer Reich desmoronándose, la joven Lore decide llevar a sus cuatro hermanos 500 kilometros a través de Alemania hasta un lugar seguro en casa de su abuela, en el Mar del Norte... Adaptación de la novela 'El cuarto oscuro', de Rachel Seiffert.

El ex convicto Johnny se ve obligado a tirar de un atraco con el que no quiere tener nada que ver. El jefe de la mafia "Shrewd" Eddie tiene un millón de dólares sucios en efectivo escondidos en su casa, esperando ser robados. Pero lo que Johnny no sabe es que otros siete criminales muy peligrosos también tienen planes de robar el dinero ...

Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.

A film adaptation of the 1606 satirical tragedy by Thomas Middleton, relocated to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool. Christopher Eccleston plays the revenge-obsessed Vindice, who has sworn to kill the evil Duke (Derek Jacobi) who murdered his one true love.

R.U. /// Bajo los constantes abusos físicos y sexuales de su padre, Dean Page acaba expulsado de casa, aunque consigue un trabajo a manos de Lady Gryffon, a través de quien queda fascinado por el mundo de la alta sociedad. Cuando un malentendido le hace perder su trabajo, Dean se traslada a Paris donde se hace pasar por el hijo de Lady Gryffon, Alex, integrándose sin ningún problema entre la alta aristocracia.

Louisiana, año 1962. La familia numerosa Batista está encabezada por el encantador doctor Louis. Aunque Louis está casado con la bella Roz, tiene debilidad por sus pacientes atractivas...

Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but at a civic luncheon, he is seated next to Aileen Armitage, a novelist who is blind. They have a nice time, and on the sly, Diana contacts Aileen to made an odd request. Diana's declining health and her resolve bring this triangle of unlikely friends to a surprising place.

En enero de 1978, tras su éxito en Inglaterra, la banda de punk rock Sex Pistols se aventura en su gira por el sur de Estados Unidos. El temperamental bajista Sid Vicious es obligado por sus compañeros de banda y su manager a viajar sin su problemática novia, Nancy Spungen, que se reunirá con él en Nueva York. Cuando la banda se disuelve y Sid comienza su carrera en solitario en una ciudad hostil, la turbulenta pareja cae definitivamente en las profundidades de la adicción a las drogas, un último viaje sin retorno.

An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.

The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.

After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.

Slice-of-life look at class divisions among employees of a brokerage house. Alan, with his portrait of the Queen and love of the peerage; his wife April, who raises cats; youthful and pretentious friends Nigel, Giles, and Anthony, who gather for a wine-soaked dinner party with the chatty and risque Samantha and the mousy Caroline; the plummy Lord and Lady Crouchurst, in a spot of bother needing the help of Francis, a senior partner, to assist with the family's cash flow. Alan comes home from work to find Mr. Shakespeare doing a photo shoot of one of April's cats and a wealthy stranger, Miss Hunt, waiting to purchase one. His instincts for sycophantic palaver kick in.

The story of the trial of Willie Gallagher, convicted of bombing the Strabane British Legion Hall in Northern Ireland, 1976. The transmission of this film was postponed by the BBC several times, and when it did finally air, it was shown with cuts; the writer, Caryl Churchill, and director, Roland Joffé, had their names removed from the credits in protest.

Kate works in the nuclear industry. She is concerned about the way things are being run. So she smuggles out some Plutonium to prove how easy it is. She tries to pass it on to protest groups, but nobody is interested as they have their own agendas.

A comic extravaganza about a young woman's adventures in the world of big business charity.

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.

Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.

Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?

Una fiesta de bienvenida que se celebra para conocer a unos nuevos vecinos servirá para mostrar cómo se relacionan entre sí.

During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.

Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.

Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a motor-bike petrol tank as a bomb. Campion's Interview by Brian Clark: A headmaster takes on the Education Authorities on behalf on his pupils, exposing the political pressures behind the creation of a comprehensive school.

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s' veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.