Sharon Small

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Winston Churchill.

As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter’s whereabouts.

A tale of the relationship between lonely schoolboy, Toby, and Arthur, or Art, an inflatable boy.

Six strangers from differing backgrounds are drawn together at one moment, after which nothing will be the same.

Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, Lizzie has invented a story that he is away at sea on the HMS Accra. Every few weeks, Lizzie writes Frankie a make-believe letter from his father, telling of his adventures in exotic lands. As Frankie tracks the ship's progress around the globe, he discovers that it is due to dock in his hometown. With the real HMS Accra arriving in only a fortnight, Lizzie must choose between telling Frankie the truth or finding the perfect stranger to play Frankie's father for just one day...

ウィル・フリーマン。38歳、無職、独身。ノース・ロンドンに住み、亡き父がクリスマス・ソングを一発ヒットさせたおかげでお気楽な印税生活を送っていた。ある日、ウィルは12歳の少年マーカスと出会う。マーカスはシングルマザーの母親フィオナのひどい鬱病に悩んでいた。そんな矢先、フィオナが自殺を図る。フィオナはウィルの素早い対応で事なきを得るが、マーカスは母をこれ以上一人にしておけないと考え、ウィルと母のデートをセッティングする。そうこうしてるうち、次第にウィルのアパートに入り浸るようになるマーカス。生活のリズムを狂わされ困惑するウィルだったが…。

The first of three contemporary love stories showing in the Love Bites 1997 season. A working-class Scotswoman tries to save her deeply indebted friend from Glasgow’s inner city loan sharks.

Thirteen-year-old Kerry is repeatedly sexually abused by several adults, including at one point her mother. Her father sets her up as a prostitute. Kerry finally calls Childline and is put in a safe house, where she tries to come to terms with what has been done to her. Based on a true story, with the names changed to protect the real Kerry's identity.

Good follows a music-loving German professor in the late 1930s as he contemplates the philosophical underpinnings of shocking Nazi party policies