Alan Bennett

In May 2024, Alan Bennett turned 90. This film celebrates the life and long career of one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights. Part frank ...

One of Britain’s greatest landscape artists, Eric Ravilious, is killed in a plane crash while on commission as Official War Artist in Iceland in ...

Documentary about British author and actor Alan Bennett. Recorded over the course of a year, the film features a number of intimate encounters ...

A documentary celebrating 20 years of the work of Kaleidoscope, an organisation devoted to the preservation of archive television.

Animation telling of the adventures of Mouse, Mole, Rat and Owl. Before giving a Twelfth Night party, Mouse makes a snowmole for Mole. In a ...

Will the rise of electronic books mark the final chapter in the love story between traditional books and their readers? Alan Yentob discusses the ...

Documentary providing a rare glimpse into the life of Alan Bennett, one of the UK’s best-loved writers, with interviews, archive footage ...

The Moors Murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The ...

Featuring interviews by famous fans and followers, this rare documentary encapsulates the essence of the controversial, enigmatic, and ...

Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame Thora ...

This animated clip comments on different educational opportunities for boys and girls, and points out the positive impact of making all ...

Hailed as the “rightful heir” to “The Wind in the Willows”, William Horwood’s critically acclaimed sequel comes to ...

After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a ...

Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily ...

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

Alan Bennett’s personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical ...

Julie Walters stars in new sketches by four accomplished writers who helped make her famous.

Writer Alan Bennett visits a hotel in the north of England, observes the guests, and reminisces about his experiences of staying in ...

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar’s wife, an inveterate letter ...

When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress ...

When Denis Midgley’s father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They’ve never really got on, so ...

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – ...