Old Lady Dealer #2
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.
Jeff's Mam
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
Mrs. Foggan
1992年のイングランド北部ヨークシャー地方、炭坑の町グリムリーは炭坑閉鎖問題で揺れていた。結成百年の伝統を誇る名門ブラスバンド、グリムリー・コリアリー・バンドでも、メンバーそれぞれが苦境に陥っていた。バンドに全情熱を傾けるリーダー兼指揮者、ダニーは、全英選手権に出場し、ロイヤル・アルバート・ホールで演奏して優勝することを夢見てメンバーに激を飛ばすが、炭坑夫である彼らは炭鉱閉鎖の不安ゆえに気もそぞろだ。
そんな折り、グロリアが生まれ故郷のグリムリーに戻って来る。彼女はかつてのダニーの親友の孫娘で、フリューゲル・ホーン持参で練習場に現れ、いきなり難曲の「アランフェス協奏曲」をバンドと巧みに奏で一同を感心させてしまったのだが…。
Bus Conductress
A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Salvation Army Lady
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
Mrs Pennington
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Striker
The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
