Grã-Bretanha, 1944, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Incansavelmente perseguido por vários agentes do MI5, Henry Faber, um implacável espião alemão em posse de informações vitais sobre o Dia D, refugiou-se na Ilha Storm, uma terra inóspita e pouco habitada ao largo da costa do norte da Escócia.
"Ploughman! Nobody calls you that. You're a has-been. Your head and heart went into a museum wi' that lot you keep in there. Face it: you're redundant." Ploughman Duncan Brewster faces redundancy in late life.
The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who are headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government...
The Bevellers by Roddy McMillan was a BBC Scotland Television Drama play following an apprentice working in a glassmaking workshop in Glasgow and his relationship with the other workers. The actor Roddy McMillan wrote The Bevellers as a play for the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1973. It was based on his experiences as an apprentice beveller in a glass mirror works.
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty
