David Annen

London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the Court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged – untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy’s wife… As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.

런던에 살고 있는 평범한 가장인 ‘콴’ 은 의문의 폭발 사고로 딸을 눈앞에서 잃는다. ‘콴’은 자신의 딸이 죽은 사고가 테러조직과 관련이 있음을 눈치채고 경찰을 찾아가지만 기다리라는 형식적인 대답만 듣게 된다. 답답한 ‘콴’은 딸의 억울한 죽음을 밝히고자 고위 정부관료인 ‘헤네시’ 를 찾게 되는데 무시만 당하게 된다. 더 이상 기다릴 수도, 참을 수도 없는 아버지 ‘콴’은 결국 스스로 범인을 찾기로 결심하고 그가 할 수 있는 모든 것을 동원하며 거대한 권력에 맞서 싸우는데…

The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.

The Almeida Theatre makes its live screening debut with an explosive new adaptation of Richard III, directed by Almeida Artistic Director Rupert Goold with Ralph Fiennes as Shakespeare’s most notorious villain and Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Margaret. War-torn England is reeling after years of bitter conflict. King Edward is ailing, and as political unrest begins to stir once more, Edward’s brother Richard – vicious in war, despised in peacetime – awaits the opportunity to seize his brother’s crown. Through the malevolent Richard, Shakespeare examines the all-consuming nature of the desire for power amid a society riddled by conflict. Olivier-winning director Rupert Goold’s (Macbeth, King Charles III) searing new production hones a microscopic focus on the mythology surrounding a monarch whose machinations are inextricably woven into the fabric of British history.

애완견 '데니스’(로빈 윌리엄스)와 대화를 나누는 것이 유일한 낙인 별일 없이 사는 ‘닐’(사이먼 페그)에게 어느 날 갑자기 손만 흔들면 말하는 대로 이뤄지는 전지전능한 초능력이 생기게 된다. 은하계 고등생물 위원회가 지구의 존폐를 결정하기 위해 무작위로 실험대상을 선정해 닐에게 초능력을 준 것이다. 지구의 운명이 자신에게 달린 줄은 꿈에도 모르고 초능력으로 아래층에 사는 ‘캐서린(케이트 베킨세일)’이 자신을 사랑하게 해달라는 소원을 말하는 닐. 하지만 그의 2% 부족한 초능력 사용 때문에 생각과 달리 상황은 점점 의도치 않게 흘러 가는데… 과연, 닐은 초능력으로 사랑을 쟁취하고 은하계에서 지구를 지켜낼 수 있을까?

Political drama about the rise of Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats during the 2010 election. After the election failed to produce an outright winner, Clegg was catapulted into an unaccustomed position of influence and was the recipient of political courtship from both Labour's Gordon Brown and David Cameron of the Conservative Party.

This docudrama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.

National Theatre Live will broadcast Manchester International Festival’s electrifying production of Macbeth, with Kenneth Branagh (My Week With Marilyn, Hamlet) in his first Shakespeare performance in over a decade as Macbeth, and Alex Kingston (Doctor Who, ER) as Lady Macbeth. Directed by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford (Anna Christie at the Donmar Warehouse, Thoroughly Modern Millie on Broadway) and BAFTA Award-winner Kenneth Branagh, this unique production of Shakespeare’s tragic tale of ambition and treachery unfolds within the walls of an intimate deconsecrated Manchester church.

A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.

The innovative interweaving of romance and math was conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. The 2008 Olivier Award winner for Best New Play, it has toured the world and was recently performed in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and Diana's death. Nighy is a PR guru who has to stop and re-evaluate his world when his daughter threatens to leave his life, perhaps as revenge for his serial infidelities. Richardson plays a mother trying to bury her grief in an unconventional way after the loss of her young son.