Martyn Hesford

A look at the life of troubled comic Kenneth Williams, as shown by extracts from his diaries.

TV adaptation of the Dickens classic. Ralph Nickleby (Charles Dance), the wealthy and cold-hearted uncle whom Nicholas (James D'Arcy) and his sister, Kate (Sophia Miles), turn to when their father's death leaves them destitute. Nicholas eagerly takes on a teaching job at a boys' boarding school, but flees after rebelling against the unspeakable horrors there. With powerful enemies marshalled against him, Nicholas struggles to find his way in the world and rescue his family... (play.com)

A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.

A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion (IMDB).

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

After a chance meeting with her old school-friend Sandra Delaney (Crissy Rock), pub landlady Maureen Hardcastle (Dame Julie Walters) finally realizes what she needs to enliven her flagging business and spice up her equally flagging marriage to Jimmy (Alun Armstrong) - male strippers in her pub. So she contacts "Bad" Billy Bowmans (Robert Lindsay) to arrange it - but gets more than she bargained for. (imdb)