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Nuts in May

Nuts in May (1976)

Nuts in May

A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them in Mike Leigh's masterpiece on the comedic potential inherent in human behaviour

Blue Remembered Hills

Blue Remembered Hills (1979)

Blue Remembered Hills

Dennis Potter's extraordinary and groundbreaking drama concerns a group of seven-year-olds playing in the Forest of Dean one summer afternoon in 1943 - the most striking feature of the play is that all the children are played by adult actors

Gormenghast

Gormenghast (2000)

Gormenghast

A gothic fantasy based on the first two novels by Mervyn Peake that follows the life of Titus Groan, the heir of an ancient and decaying castle who faces threats and challenges, not least of all from an ambitious murderer

Archangel

Archangel (2005)

Archangel

When a maverick academic attends a conference in Moscow about the newly opened Soviet Archives he uncovers a secret which could change the face of Russian history forever. A riveting British TV series that will keep you on the edge of your seat

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)

The Lincoln Lawyer

American legal drama based on the books of Michael Connelly in which a defence attorney in Los Angeles works out of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln Navigator

Tich and Quackers

Tich and Quackers (1965)

Tich and Quackers

Children’s television series hosted by the incomparable Ray Alan, a master ventriloquist who breathed so much life into his dummies that you’d swear blind they were living creatures

Ahsoka

Ahsoka (2023)

Ahsoka

Part of the Star Wars franchise and a spin-off from the series The Mandalorian. After the fall of the Galactic Empire, former Jedi Knight Ahsoka Tano investigates an emerging threat to a vulnerable galaxy...

Happy Valley

Happy Valley (2014)

Happy Valley

Multi-award-winning British crime drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a resilient and determined police sergeant who tries to uphold the law whilst facing down her own demons