Sheila Hancock

Steve Deakin teaches history and is a foot soldier in the Sealed Knot Society. In a fortnight between two English Civil War battles he finds he faces...

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Actress and writer Sheila Hancock has long been fascinated by the life and works of the Brontë sisters. In this programme, she searches for an...

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Liz, a lonely widow,returns home from her holiday in Torquay with Damar, a Nepalese ex-Gurkha, whom she intends to marry. Her grown-up,divorced...

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Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

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Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.

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Jack is obsessed with nuclear armageddon and takes his wife, Ellen, and their children into a fallout shelter in their garden to wait out the atomic...

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A woman writes a book about sex and marriage and it becomes a best seller.

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Sheila Hancock stars as Ellie; a woman gathering her strength on the morning of the hardest day of her life. Unwaveringly, she prepares to perform...

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A stranger arrives at an old woman's house on the west coast of Scotland where she allows him to stay in exchange for odd jobs. But who is he?

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An errant cricket ball causes mayhem as the gang try to recover it.

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