Musician
1815 год. После Битвы при Ватерлоо солдат Джозеф возвращается в родной Манчестер. Парень ещё толком не оправился от войны, а уже новая напасть угрожает его семье - экономический спад ведёт к безработице и голоду. Народное недовольство растёт, и всё большую популярность получают идеи Генри Ханта - искусного оратора, который поддерживает рабочий класс и выступает за всеобщее избирательное право.
Man on Tram
TV Film adaptation of Victoria Wood's hit musical set in Manchester in 1929 and 1969. When middle aged loners Tubby and Enid attend a reunion of the choir in which they sang as children, the music evokes powerful memories, leading them to realise they still have a chance to find happiness.
Inspector John Machin
Manfield, South Yorkshire, 1984. Out-of-work steelworker-turned- radical revolutionary Joe Starkhill and his band of comrades seize the Town Hall and take the Mayor, her driver, a security guard and a civil servant hostage - declaring the start of a socialist revolution in Britain. But when a faulty phone line prevents them from alerting the local newspaper and TV station, and the police write them off as a hoax, it is only when one of the hostages fails to return home for dinner, that the alarm is raised and Inspector John Machin is dispatched to the Town Hall to investigate - but it's not long before the building is surrounded by the press, police and public, turning Starkhill and the Revolutionaries into a media sensation.
