BBC TV

Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.

Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption

Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.

10/10/88 in London England at the Hammersmith Odeon

A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect.

Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.

A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.

What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be, into whom?

A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.

In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.

A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern animals into the far future.

Kate and Deeley are married and live in the country. They are joined by Kate's friend, Anna, and talk of the past. Although it is a past they have shared, their memories of it are not always the same.

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it?

After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.

Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He complains to her about the state of modern society, but his own problems are about to worsen...

A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.

Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.