Simon Callow

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a ...

Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.

Charting the evolution of public and political attitudes to homosexuality over the last four decades, from decriminalisation in 1967 to ...

Documenting the days and weeks preceding Boy George’s appearance in a New York courtroom in June 2006 for cocaine possession and his ...

Thousands of years ago, the great Child King Tutankhamen ruled. Few know the details of his life — No one knows the secrets of his death. ...

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh’s famous novel “Brideshead ...

A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.

When writer’s block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. ...

After a series of bad relationships, a man orders a mail order bride and receives more than he bargained for.

Bob, an incompetent man, is searching for an available job by alphabetical order. He had just failed all of the A’s, and discovers an ad in ...

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.

A gay young man is recruited into an illicit love triangle to watch a much older man’s sexual liaison, but ends up witnessing what turns out to ...

Based on Dava Sobel’s bestselling book, Galileo’s Daughter, this documentary reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist – that his ...

Simon Callow’s one-man show about Charles Dickens.

An 11-year-old boy’s amazing ability to break wind leads him first to fame and then to death row, before it helps him to fulfill his ...

Animated version of the classic Charles Dickens story. Warned by the ghost of his old business partner Marley that his sins would lead to ...

Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ...

Joanne Kilbourn, ex-detective turned university lecturer, is still haunted by the unsolved murder of her politician husband,

Travel back in time to a scene set in London in 1872, where a young Phileas Fogg is about to wager a fortune in the hope of completing an ...

A Claymation version of the classic story of Don Quixote.

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” before it’s even ...

Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III’s personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English ...

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel ...

When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to ...

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.

Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal ...

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it ...

The story of Henry Purcell.