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2010
2010x15
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story
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28, 2008
In 1963 an unknown housewife and teacher from the Midlands, Mary Whitehouse, embarked on a mission to clean up British television. Her crusade led her into battle with the man she held .. show full overview
2010x1
Mrs Mandela
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31, 2010
Drama charting how Winnie Mandela (Sophie Okonedo) went from innocent country girl to an apartheid fighter, and from a wife to a revolutionary.
2010x19
Good
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27, 2010
Drama set in 1930s Germany. A professor is reluctant to become involved with the Nazi Party when they offer to advance his career.
2010x12
Vincent Van Gogh: Painted with Words
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05, 2010
Drama-documentary presented by Alan Yentob, with Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role as Van Gogh. Every word spoken by the actors in this film is sourced from the letters that Van .. show full overview
2010x5
Royal Wedding
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17, 2010
It is 1981, Charles loves Di, Toxteth is rioting and Margaret Thatcher is trying to reform the economy. In a small Welsh village beginning to feel the negative effects of Thatcher's free .. show full overview
2010x4
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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31, 2010
Bold and passionate drama telling the story of Anne Lister, 1791-1840, a Yorkshire landowner, industrialist, traveller and diarist. She was a lesbian, who, despite needing to keep her .. show full overview
2010x14
Lennon Naked
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23, 2010
Christopher Eccleston is John Lennon in a drama which charts his transition from Beatle John to enduring and enigmatic icon. Writer Robert Jones articulates the burden of genius, as .. show full overview
2010x17
Skin
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03, 2010
Powerful drama based on the true story of Sandra Laing, a black woman who - due to a rare genetic irregularity - was born to white Afrikaner parents in 1950s South Africa and ostracised from white society as a result of the apartheid regime.
2010x18
First Light
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14, 2010
Thrown into the crucible of the most violent air war ever seen, a boy barely out of school is determined to fight for survival. However, the price of victory will be more than he can .. show full overview
2010x8
The Road to Coronation Street
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16, 2010
6.53pm. December 9th 1960. Granada Studios, Manchester. With minutes to go until the live transmission of Episode One, creator Tony Warren is being sick in the toilets, actress Pat .. show full overview
2010x9
Excluded
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21, 2010
A funny and emotionally powerful drama which exposes the realities and struggles that some inner-city schools face today. Ian, a newly qualified teacher, comes up against Mark, a .. show full overview
2010x11
The Song of Lunch
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08, 2010
A dramatisation of Christopher Reid's narrative poem, telling the story of a book editor who, 15 years after their break-up, meets his former love for a nostalgic lunch at the Soho .. show full overview
2010x13
The First Men in the Moon
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19, 2010
In 1969 the Apollo moon landing is to be televised internationally but at a country fair in England a small boy named Jim meets the 90-year-old Julius Bedford who tells him that,in .. show full overview
2010x6
Macbeth
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12, 2010
Film version of director Rupert Goold's highly-acclaimed production of Macbeth, originally staged by Chichester Festival Theatre and later a sell-out hit in the West End and on Broadway. .. show full overview
2010x16
Whistle and I'll Come to You
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24, 2010
A chilling new single drama, Whistle and I'll Come to You is the thoroughly modern re-working of the evocative Edwardian ghost story Oh, Whistle and I'll come to You, My Lad by MR James, .. show full overview
2010x10
When Harvey Met Bob
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26, 2010
Feature-length dramatisation following the story of how Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof and promoter Harvey Goldsmith put together Live Aid, the global charity music event. Set between .. show full overview
2010x7
Toast
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30, 2010
Adaptation of chef Nigel Slater's autobiography, providing a nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960s Britain. After tragedy strikes food-obsessed young Nigel and his family, he .. show full overview

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