Denys Hawthorne

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

Эмма Вудхаус богата, красива и умна. У нее все в порядке не только с происхождением, но и душевной организацией. Всегда под рукой великодушный, истинный друг и джентльмен, и только с ним она чувствует себя на равных, зная его с детства. Будучи счастливой и молодой, Эмма хочет устроить счастье своих менее одаренных судьбой и природой подруг, одновременно развеяв легкую летнюю скуку. Но сваха из нее никудышная, к тому же она обнаруживает, что ей лучше позаботиться о себе.

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.

Эта драма основана на реальных событиях — истории "Гилфордской четверки". В 1975 году молодой ирландец Джерри Конлон был приговорен английским правосудием к пожизненному заключению за покушение, которое он не совершал. Трое его друзей, его отец, тетя, племянница и племянник также осуждены за соучастие. Адвокат Гэрит Перси пытается добиться пересмотра дела.

Привлекательная русская женщина Катя — литературный редактор. Пытаясь переправить британскому издателю БарлиБлэйру рукопись известного советского ученого, Катя невольно втягивает их обоих в мир международного шпионажа. Рукопись, содержания которой достаточно для нарушения мирового баланса, перехвачена западной разведкой. Блэйра вербуют в Советский Союз для добычи новой информации о таинственной рукописи. Но когда Блэйр знакомится с Катей, ему приходится выбирать между возложенной на него миссией и страстью к женщине, для которой преданность собственной стране незыблема, как и для самого Блэйра…

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.

1947 год. Рядовые англичане в первые годы после войны со своим строго установленным дневным рационом живут чуть ли не впроголодь, а уж о мясе, тем более беконе, могут только мечтать. Мясников и фермеров во избежание расцвета черного рынка строго контролируют власти. Но нет таких правил, которые нельзя обойти. Когда принцесса Елизавета собралась замуж, группа бизнесменов провинциального английского городка решает организовать торжество в честь королевской свадьбы, чтобы своей верноподданностью впечатлить (а может, подкупить) местные власти.

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.

Морис Кастл - британский экс-дипломат, работающий в африканской секции министерства иностранных дел. Когда его маленькая рабочая группа определяется как источник утечки информации, ему вспоминают его прошлое, и зловещие игроки вторгаются в его упорядоченную жизнь...

В начале 1939 года Сэр Роберт Торндайк приезжает в Германию, чтобы застрелить Гитлера. Однако его планам не суждено было сбыться. Его перехватывает гестапо, пытает и бросает умирать. Торндайку удаётся выжить и вернуться в Англию, но и здесь его преследуют немецкие агенты. Зная, что правительство может передать его в руки немецким властям, сэр Роберт уходит в подполье.

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.