Denys Hawthorne

Set in 19th Century Ireland, the 'Molly Maguires' take revenge on an old man who has been telling tales to the Landlord.

1810년대 영국 하이베리의 작은 마을. 23살의 예쁘고 영리한 아가씨 엠마 우드하우스(기네스 펠트로우 분)는 '세상에서 가장 멋진 일은 아주 잘 어울리는 커플을 만들어내는 것'이라는 확고한 믿음을 가지고 있었다. 가정교사 테일러양을 이웃의 웨스턴씨와 중매하고 그들이 결혼에 골인하자 기세등등해진 엠마. 그녀는 다음 목표로 사회적으로 약간 미성숙한 아가씨 해리엇을 지목한다. 해리엇과 어울리는 파트너를 찾기위해 동부서주하는 엠마. 그런데 농부 로버트 마틴이 해리엇의 뒤를 졸졸 따라 다니는 것이다. 설상가상으로 해리엇까지 마틴에게 관심이 있는 눈치. 엠마는 마틴과 사귀지 말라는 따끔한 충고를 잊지않는다. 해리엇을 위한 '적당한' 남편감을 찾던 중 엠마의 눈에 젊은 교구목사인 엘튼씨가 들어온다. 해리엇과 엘튼이라는 새로운 커플의 탄생은 노련한 중매쟁이 엠마에게 있어서 이제 시간문제 일뿐이다. 하지만 엠마의 친절을 오해한 엘튼씨는 엠마에게 청혼하고, 엠마는 생각지도 못한 상황으로 인해 난처한 상황에 처하게 된다. 엠마의 곁에서 늘 그녀를 지켜보던 나이트리씨(제레미 노덤 분)는 엠마의 행동이 다른 사람의 마음을 아프게 할 수 있다고 충고한다. 실의에 빠진 엠마. 한편 마을의 수다쟁이들이 모여 정작 본인은 결혼할 생각을 하지 않는 엠마에 대한 궁금증과 호기심을 토로하고 있었다. 엠마는 자신에게도 사랑할 사람이 필요하다고 느끼게 된다. 그런 엠마앞에 프랭크 처칠(이완 맥그리거 분)이라는 멋진 청년이 나타나지만 그는 세상이 다아는 바람둥이였다.

A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.

In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.

1970년 아일랜드는 시기적으로 어수선한 상태였다. 폭탄이 터지는 등 테러가 심했고 늘 군대가 거리를 메우고 있었다. 그때 제리는 철없는 무직의 청년으로 어느날 영국군 저격병으로 오해받아 영국군에게 쫓기고, 그만 폭동을 주도한 인물로 찍힌다. 아들이 걱정되는 아버지는 제리를 영국으로 가는 배에 태운다. 숙모댁을 가라는 아버지의 말을 무시하고 그는 히피들과 생활하다 아일랜드인을 싫어하는 친구들 때문에 함께 기거를 못하고 런던 시내를 배회한다. 바로 그날 한 식당에서 폭탄 테러가 발생하고 아무것도 모르는 제리는 우연히 주운 매춘부의 열쇠로 그녀의 집에 들어가 돈을 훔치고 그 돈으로 고향으로 간다. 그뒤 히피 집단에 남아있던 친구가 경찰에 잡혀가고 뒤이어 영문도 모른체 제리도 경찰에 잡혀가게 된다. 심문 도중 협박과 폭력에 못이겨 허위 진술서에 서명을 하게 된 친구로 인해 공범으로 몰린 제리와 친구 폴은 경찰의 고문으로 길포드 식당의 테러범으로 지목된다. 처음 예상과는 달리 1976년, 아버지까지 연류되는데...

빌리는 책과 술, 재즈를 좋아하는 영국의 출판업자다. 그는 어느날 러시아 과학자단체로부터 소련 핵무기의 후진성을 폭로한 원고를 출판해달라는 부탁을 받는다. 그러나 그 원고가 영국 정보부의 수중에 넘어가게 되고, 원고의 신빙성을 확인하기 위해 당국은 빌리를 스파이로 훈련시켜 러시아로 보낸다. 러시아에 도착한 빌리는 중간에서 원고를 전달해준 카차라는 미모의 여인을 만난다. 그녀를 통해서 과학자단체 사람들을 알게 되고, 그녀는 인류평화를 위해 국가기밀을 폭로하려는 그의 순수한 열정에 감복한다.

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.

Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.

As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer named Mel. Answering a mysterious distress call from the space liner Hyperion III, they find that the passengers aboard include unscrupulous scientists, secret agents, saboteurs, thieves and a murderer. And lurking in the shadows are the Vervoids, the product of sinister botanical experiments, who will stop at nothing to destroy all non-plant life.

Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.

Geoffrey Carr is a wealthy, key player in Britain's emerging computer industry, and newly married to Frances , a much younger woman, with wilful daughter Clare from a previous marriage. He'll do anything to make them happy, including stretching his finances to buy a Georgian estate in County Wicklow, where Frances grew up. Frank Crossan is an Irish Republican hitman on the run from British authorities. Seeking refuge with old girlfriend Kate, he creates a plan to kidnap a wealthy Brit for a ransom to fund a major arms deal. Their two worlds collide when Frances and Clare are brutally snatched away to a bleak hideaway and taken hostage. Geoffrey initially wants to cave in to the kidnapper's demands “ but nothing is simple when a personal crisis plays out against the forces of political intrigue, high finance and with the eyes of the media on them.

In the summer of 1947, Britain prepares to commemorate the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. To get around food-rationing laws, Dr. Charles Swaby, accountant Henry Allardyce and solicitor Frank Lockwood are fattening a black-market pig for the big day. Egged on by his wife, meek Gilbert Chilvers steals the swine, but the couple must conceal it from inspector Morris Wormold.

Ulster 1959. A young journalist visiting his quiet hometown is awakened by a scream in the night. He catches sight of a youth being beaten up and dragged away. When he investigates, witnesses seem to melt away, and life-long friends reveal a sinister indifference. Or is it fear?

The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington Bomber

Professor Broderick, a famous professor of Psychology, returns to his house by Belfast Lough to discover a woman waiting for him.

Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.

Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the a rea, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet presbyterian backwaters. The year is 1959.

Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.

The Life and Times of David Lloyd George charts the life of the controversial Liberal politician with Philip Madoc in the titular role. The title theme, Chi Mai, was by Ennio Morricone

A woman returns to Belfast after ten years in England and becomes involved in the Maze prison protest.

A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Play set in Northern Ireland about Carson and the setting up of the Stormont Government of 1918-1920, after strong protests by the Northern Irish Protestants against Home Rule and separation from Great Britain.

Six stories involving wife and husband swapping/swinging, are described in titillating detail while analyzed by a pseudo psychologist.

The first broadcast of the radio play in English on the BBC on 6th October 1964. The play opens with a familiar Beckettian theme, the search to put an end to language: “—story . . . if you could finish it . . . you could rest . . . sleep . . . not before”. “The shape of the narrative itself is indicative of the mind already in the process of degenerating towards an impasse. Voice alternates between talking about the story-telling itself, or the need to find the story to end all stories, and narrating [what it hopes will be that final] story." (Wiki) The term ‘cascando’ (‘cascades’) involves the decrease of volume and the deceleration of tempo.