Andrew Davies

How Andrew Davies transforms the classics into prime-time television. A profile exploring both his creative process and the influence of his childhood in Cardiff.

In 1953 Dylan Thomas went to New York for the last time, his marriage a wreck, his drinking out of control. He was on his way to meet Stravinsky and to wallow in New York acclaim - but what was he escaping? How did such a triumph become a requiem? The last days of a great poet.

A peep behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katharine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in the glamorous world of cinema.

A peep behind the scenes of the golden era of Hollywood to discover exactly how and why Katharine Hepburn became one of the most famous actresses in the glamorous world of cinema.

O jovem D'Artagnan, depois de sair da Gasconha e viajar para Paris, conhece os mosqueteiros Athos, Aramis e Porthos, e tentam impedir que o Cardeal Richelieu e sua agente Milady de Winter causem uma guerra entre a França e a Inglaterra.

A couple are torn apart when a French woman enters their loves and pulls them into personal a game of lust and obsession.

A grieving upper class woman becomes a "Lady Visitor" at Millbank prison, hoping to escape her troubles and be a guiding figure in the lives of the female prisoners. Of all her friendships with prisoners, she is most fascinated by Selina - a medium.

Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.

Anne e Mary são irmãs que foram convencidas por seu pai e tio ambiciosos a aumentar o status da família tentando conquistar o coração de Henry Tudor, o rei da Inglaterra. Elas são levadas à corte e logo Maria conquista o rei, dando-lhe um filho ilegítimo. Porém isto não faz com que Ana desista de seu intento, buscando de todas as formas passar para trás tanto sua irmã quanto a rainha Catarina de Aragão.

Lucy Honeychurch and her nervous chaperone embark on a grand tour of Italy. Alongside sweeping landscapes, Lucy encounters a suspect group of characters — socialist Mr. Emerson and his working-class son George, in particular — who both surprise and intrigue her. When piqued interest turns to potential romance, Lucy is whisked home to England, where her attention turns to Cecil Vyse. But now, with a well-developed appetite for adventure, will Lucy make the daring choice when it comes to love?

Quando a jovem Catherine Morland tem a oportunidade de ir morar com a família Allen em Bath, ela espera ter também a chance de viver aventuras românticas como aquelas que sempre leu nos livros. Como os Allen não têm filhos, logo ela é apresentada a outros de sua idade: Isabella Thorpe e o irmão John, grande amigo do irmão de Catherine, James; e também Henry Tilney, um rapaz bonito e boa família, e a irmã dele, Eleanor. Convidada para um passeio na abadia de Northanger, no estado de Tilney, a jovem sonhadora imagina que chegou seu momento de viver um grande romance. Mas Catherine logo percebe que status, classe e dinheiro têm tanta ou mais importância do que as coisas do coração. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls' with Mrs. Brown, a madam who recruits her as charmingly fresh enough to wait, in-living, on gentlemen.

Boasting an amazing selection of the most watched, most influential and most highly acclaimed programmes ever made, The 50 Greatest Television Dramas presents a long overdue assessment of the rich heritage television drama has to offer. Channel 4 invited over 200 of Britain's top television drama professionals – writers, directors, producers and commissioners – to take part in an exclusive poll to discover what they consider the finest dramas ever produced.

Based on the English comic novel written by the brothers George and Weedon Grossmith in the 1880s. The diary records the daily events in the lives of a London clerk, Charles Pooter, his wife Carrie, his son Lupin, and numerous friends and acquaintances, over a period of 15 months. The hapless Victorian diarist records the minutiae of life in the suburbs with a dry wit, sarcasm and mostly misunderstood humour, as he battles with impertinent tradesmen, exasperating friends and his wayward son Lupin's various misdemeanours.

The trial, under The Obscene Publications Act, of the publishers of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'in 1960 was a sensation that consumed the nation. The movie follows two fictional jurors, Helena and Keith, who become passionate lovers during the course of the trial and whose affair mirrors the themes of the novel.

Henry Kent meets writer Daisy Langrish and offers to take care of her overgrown garden. The relationship develops but Mr. Kent is fooling no one but Daisy!

Bridget Jones e Mark Darcy namoram há seis semanas, mas o que deveria ser um sonho está infestado pelas dúvidas e inseguranças dela. A juntar a este problema, Bridget sente-se ameaçada pela nova e magnificamente bonita colega de Mark. Decidido a aproveitar as oportunidades para atrapalhar o casal, Daniel Cleaver volta, também, a assediá-la, para desassossego de Mark.

Boudica, a rainha guerreira da Grã-Bretanha, leva sua tribo à rebelião contra o Império Romano e o louco imperador de Roma Nero.

With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London of the near future, a crime-ridden metropolis virtually torn apart by racial hostilities. By order of the Prime Minister, black police officer John Othello (Eamonn Walker) is promoted to Commissioner, a post dearly coveted by Othello's friend, mentor and fellow officer Ben Jago (Christopher Eccleston). Seething with jealousy, Jago contrives to discredit Othello in the eyes of the public, and to destroy John's interracial marriage to the lily-white Dessie (Keeley Hawes). Among those used as unwitting dupes to gain Jago's ends are Othello's trusted lieutenant, Michael Cass (Richard Coyle), scrupulously honest police constable Alan Roderick (Del Synnott), and Jago's own wife, Lulu (Rachael Stirling).

Bridget Jones, uma mulher de trinta anos, decide, entre as resoluções de Ano Novo escrever um diário. Bridget revela, a cada capítulo, as suas qualidades e os seus defeitos, além de expor com muito humor situações que fazem parte do dia-a-dia de várias mulheres nesta mesma faixa de idade: problemas com o trabalho, a busca do homem ideal etc. Cada capítulo do livro trata de um determinado dia na vida desta anti-heroína, que sempre inicia o seu relato contabilizando o peso e as calorias, cigarros e unidades alcoólicas que consumiu no dia anterior.

Um mulherengo agente britânico é mandado ao Panamá para descobrir os planos do presidente em relação ao Canal do Panamá. Em troca de uma alta soma, o endividado alfaiate que veste os poderosos vira informante. Mas, como nada acontece, passa a inventar conspirações e deixa o país à beira da guerra.

Set in the 1950s, it follows the progress of twenty year old Jenny Bunn, as she moves from her family home in the North of England to a London suburb to teach primary school children. Jenny is a traditional Northern working-class girl whose striking good looks are in sharp contrast to her prosaic upbringing, and to her strong belief that a girl should preserve her virginity until her wedding night. Because of her attractiveness, Jenny's views on virginity and marriage cause conflicts. The film centres on the (increasingly desperate and cruel) attempts of Patrick Standish, a 30 year old schoolmaster at the local grammar school, to seduce Jenny, against a backdrop of his skirmishes with his school authorities and with the shabby, suburban middle class milieu in which the film is set.

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.

When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.

The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate affair with the beautiful, mysterious Viola whom he meets one evening whilst investigating the background of her husband, Edgar Bosco.

After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.

Emma Woodhouse é uma mulher bonita, inteligente e rica, que vive confortavelmente ao lado do pai viúvo na pequena cidade de Higbury, no interior da Inglaterra. Quando a sua governanta, Miss Taylor, se casa com o vizinho, Mr. Weston, Emma sente um vazio em sua vida e decide ajudar as pessoas a terem uma vida tão perfeita quanto a sua. Torna-se, então, uma casamenteira e passa a dar conselhos na vida sentimental das amigas, apoiando, aprovando ou desaprovando os romances conforme seu juízo de valores. Mas, apesar de aparentar autoridade no assunto, ela se revela uma mulher que nunca se apaixonou.

A making of featurette about the translation of the classic Jane Austen-novel into a screenplay, filled with interviews with the director, the screenwriter, leading make up, costume and others.

Three girlhood friends now at college share first loves, first kisses and first betrayals. At the center of it all is the best-looking boy on campus. Can a self-conscious dreamer hook the biggest fish in the pond?

A surreal and nightmarish selection of short stories derived from the cult collection DIRTY FAXES, refracted through the neurosis of a middle-aged writer.

A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife and son, but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?

An adaptation of the novel by Kingsley Amis about a group of university friends reunited in retirement. Alun Weaver has found success as a celebrated London-based writer. After returning home to Wales with his alluring wife Rhiannon he reunites with old friends who chose to remain in the valleys. Long dormant romance are rekindled and rivalries resurrected in this turbulent story of ageing, friendship, lust, nostalgia and nationalism.

Several men from Wales travel to the Philippines on an arranged tour to meet Filipina women for romance and possible marriage. None of the women are the ideal Asiatic beauties the men imagined, but by the end of the tour, most of the Englishmen return with a new bride.

Joe and Sarah Marriot are a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from characters dubbed the Fitness Family, Mr. and Mrs. Topless, Fatty Granada, and the In-the-Trades. But the Marriots' enjoyment of observing the outside world turns inward when the entrance of Early Bird, a free-spirited female, shakes up their little nest.

Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed neighborhood, but their son Paul will suffer when he is unable to marry his white girlfriend Andrea.

Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding—Cotswold style. Who is going to learn the most?

'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.

The dynamic young headmaster of St Peter's Primary School decides to liven up a parents' fundraising social by hiring a Bavarian band.

The outrageous - and not entirely reliable - memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

A traveller comes across a signalman stationed by the exit of a railway tunnel in a deep cutting. The traveller becomes familiar with the signalman, and finds that he is troubled by an apparition which appears by the tunnel.

História bem elaborada em filme, sobre a eterna dualidade entre meninos e meninas. Um menino que implicava sempre com a irmã menor e as colegas de sua turma, amanhece um belo dia, com a mesma aparência, só que todos o tratam como menina para seu desespero. Ele então sente na pele a discriminação dos sexos e quando volta ao normal tem outro olhar para a situação. Com curta duração dá pra passar em sala de aula discutindo com os alunos a situação que muitos vão identificar como parte do seu cotidiano.