BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Season 2 Episodes
In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Be…
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How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's un…
The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, frie…
1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a sm…
1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of …
1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davi…
A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.
Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called G…
The promotion of an ambitious, decorated NCO is put in jeopardy when he marries an unconventional wife and faces the sno…
A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football support…
A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.
A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They …
A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.
At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.
Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.
