John Bird

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and ...

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of ‘Private Eye’ Peter Cook.

David and Joan’s life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and ...

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music – and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth ...

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things – the folly.

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the ...

Nathaniel Box, a self-styled prophet, along with his daughter Barbara and her fiancé Curtis, holds a night time press conference in an ...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his “friends” refuse to help him, and he ...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the ...

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim’s ...