Picture This (BBC)

He shares a birthday with Fidel Castro and has a cab painted with the Cuban flag. Against all advice but with a priest by his side, Tony Caccavone sets out on a mission to join the leader and people of Cuba.

John Robert Using death notices in the local paper, this film pieces together the life of an ordinary Liverpudlian.

From their heyday in the Victorian era to today's last surviving pierrot troupe, clowns in conical hats with pompoms have been a feature of the British seaside. On a Spring Bank Holiday in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, five men with silly names salute the tradition and prepare to indulge themselves in their second childhood.

Prostitutes turned poets are among the women working at the Doncaster Street Reach Project. The film charts the development and publication of their writing, guided by poet-in-residence Ian McMillan.

Wayne, 16, lives with his extensive family in Allison Street, Lincoln. He spends his days dreaming of Kimberley, a girl who shows no signs of responding to his poetic correspondence.

When Russian ballet dancers Alia and Ella form a new troupe in their adopted home of Bristol they have great hopes. However, managing the Pavlov Ballet makes exacting demands on the twin sisters.