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2018
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Grandpa's Great Escape
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Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look after him, he is moved to Twilight .. show full overview
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Hamlet (Almeida Theatre 2017)
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Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter .. show full overview
2018x2
Dave Allen At Peace
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Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this fictionalised account follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the UK and Ireland's comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers.
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Long Night at Blackstone
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Long Night at Blackstone is Greg Hemphill's second outing as a director, and is the follow-up to his hilarious and terrifying West Skerra Light. Faye Bowers is the host of a low-rent .. show full overview
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High Life
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Genevieve is a bright, musically talented 17-year-old student from a respectable family. Her teenage years seem to be panning out just fine, until her mental state starts to spiral out .. show full overview
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King Lear
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The 80-year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, according to their affection for him. Cordelia refuses to flatter him, so he banishes her. .. show full overview
2018x7
Medusa's Ankles
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A short film by Bonnie Wright (who played Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter films), starring Kerry Fox and Jason Isaacs, which addresses the shifts in power and the visibility of women .. show full overview
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Julius Caesar From Donmar Kings Cross: All Female Production
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Phyllida Lloyd directs an all-female production of Shakespeare's great political drama, set in a present-day women's prison. The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy began in 2012 with an .. show full overview
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Henry IV From Donmar Kings Cross: All Female Production
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Recorded with a live audience, this bold contemporary production is presented as if played by inmates of a women's prison. The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy began in 2012 with an .. show full overview
2018x10
The Tempest From Donmar Kings Cross: All Female Production
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The Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy began in 2012 with an all-female production of Julius Caesar led by Dame Harriet Walter. Set in a women’s prison, the production asked the question, "Who .. show full overview
2018x11
Mother's Day
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On the day before Mother's Day 1993, Colin and Wendy Parry's lives are torn apart when their youngest son Tim is killed in a terrorist attack by the IRA in Warrington's town centre. The .. show full overview
2018x12
In My Skin
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Coming-of-age story of 16-year-old Bethan, who we follow as she deals with the comical but painfully real anxieties and insecurities of teenage life, along with the stark reality of a .. show full overview
2018x13
Doing Money
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Drama telling a shocking true story about sex trafficking and modern slavery in Britain. A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland .. show full overview
2018x14
Golem
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The danger lies not in machine becoming more like man but in man becoming more like machine. Like a giant graphic novel burst into life, Golem is theatre company 1927's .. show full overview
2018x15
Care
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Jenny Northwood is a single mother struggling to raise her two girls, Sophie and Lauren since feckless husband Dave left her for another woman. Jenny's widowed mother, Mary, is her .. show full overview
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A Christmas Carol
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Simon Callow enacts the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, the miserly owner of an old counting house, who is visited by the ghost of his dead business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. .. show full overview
2018x17
The Dead Room
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Mark Gatiss brings the Christmas ghost story tradition back to life with The Dead Room, a chilling new tale for BBC Four. Written and directed by Gatiss, the 30-minute film tells the .. show full overview
2018x18
The Midnight Gang
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The Midnight Gang is an adaptation of the book by David Walliams. When Tom gets hit on the head by a cricket ball, he finds himself on the miserable children's ward of St Hugo's .. show full overview
2018x19
Splinta Claws
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Two friends, one naughty one nice, hide in in a department store for a laugh. What they think will the Best Night Ever quickly takes a very chilling turn when a Santa Claus robot blows .. show full overview

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