In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

A dramatic romp in the company of Frank Harris , 1855-1931, the most infamous man of letters of his day, and author of the scandalous My Life and Loves, banned in this country until 1964. ' The most impossible ruffian on the face of the earth.' (Bernard Shaw) ' Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses of London ... once.' (Oscar Wilde) ' The best talker in London.' (Max Beerbohm) He is indeed a monster according to all conventional standards, but his monstrosity only offends the shallow people who simply aren't worth propitiating.' (biographer Hesketh Pearson ) ' Sex is the gateway to life.' (Frank Harris to novelist Enid Bagnold ) .. so I went through the gateway in an upper room at the Cafe Royal.' (Enid Bagnold)

A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm as J.M. Barrie with Ann Bell as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Maureen O'Brien as Mary Barrie, Tim Pigott-Smith as Arthur Llewelyn Davies and Anna Cropper as Mary Hodgson Part 1: We set out to be wrecked 1897: a quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St Bernard dog. The man is J. M. Barrie ... Peter Pan has not yet been written ...

A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN starring Ian Holm. 2: Dark and sinister man 1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan , Barrie is only too happy to respond.

A trilogy by ANDREW BIRKIN Part 3: An awfully big adventure 1913. Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.

' If he's been locked up all these years why is it all right to let him out now? ' ' New thinking.' But what happens when new thinking comes up against the same old behaviour?

The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.

Written by ROBERT HOLLES starring Bill Paterson , Ann Beach '... why don' you keep that missus of yours under control ... she ain' exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put her right. I'll tell yer . . . '

'It's all in the mind. Success, failure ... nothing to do with numbers on paper, words written in books ... it's all in there.'

From the book by JEAN RENOIR Dramatised by ANDREW DAVIES An evocation of the life and work of Auguste Renoir as remembered by his son-film director, Jean Renoir. Music specially composed by CARL DAVIS and played by the NASH ENSEMBLE

Dramatisation of the true story of a childless couple who adopted a Thalidomide child, Terry Wiles, and encounter scepticism and opposition from the friends. Terry Wiles plays himself. The title is taken from a quotation by George Herbert (1593-1633): "A Dwarf on Giant's shoulders sees farther of the two".

Devised by SARAH PIA ANDERSON and SHEILA KELLEY A new flat and a new friend. For Emmie life would be lovely-but her daughter hardly visits any more and won't even let Mum make those wonderful bouffant frocks for her ballroom dancing ... Dances arranged by RITA POVER

' I'm a spy, you know ... I've got to report back.' Conroy has been asked by the teaching order's recruitment officer Brother Martin Jerome , to be guide and help to the most promising candidate, 16-year-old Stephen. To Stephen it is just another of the pressures on him at this critical time.