Robert Stephens

A tribute to the celebrated and enigmatic actress, with her life story told by those who knew her best, celebrating her much-loved appearances ...

The story of Henry Purcell.

Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.

Upon her father’s death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her ...

A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot’s classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the ...

A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.

A young writer in 1939 Warsaw faces the conflict of acting his age or relapsing into childhood during the brink of World War II. Based on the ...

A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob ...

A feisty 17th-century Scotswoman falls in love with a despised landowner, to the dismay of her father.

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new ...

A famous movie actor claims that he has written a book. As result, a real author, not a very well known writer, vengefully kills him but then ...

Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool ...

A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.

On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he ...

The story of “The Tolpuddle Martyrs”. A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and ...

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing “The Girl of the Golden West” when his wife Elvira accuses him of a ...

The story of the last two years the inhabitants of the islands of St Kilda (far off the west coast of Scotland) spent there, before being ...

A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to ...

Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December ...

This complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and the very real as it tells the tale of a strangely ...

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale through their eyes.

The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter ...

Jan and Meg Citron are on holiday in Germany. Their car is stopped by the police. A simple traffic offence? But their seemingly innocent past is ...

Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the ...