Barry Davis

"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A c...

03 de fev. de 1981

When Sarah, a New York actress, calls Joe, a London playwright they begin a very special relationship conducted through trans-Antlantic phone calls...

27 de jun. de 1990

Play about Eileen who steals a baby, and the reactions of those around her, including the priest, police, and authorities and the consequences of w...

07 de nov. de 1974

Glen, a complete stranger, appears at the door of Elizabeth Carter, a middle-aged woman, and claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth.

20 de jun. de 1974

The Bates care for their severely disabled daughter Pattie. Martin arrives at their door claiming to be her college friend. He charms them into acc...

25 de ago. de 1987

A comedy about the law - seen from the inside. All formality and procedure on the surface but not quite so convincing when you see the works.

29 de mai. de 1975

Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?

12 de dez. de 1974

White golliwogs, cross-dressing coppers, bellboy rapists, insanity, incest, and Winston Churchill’s giant member all play their part in this BBC pr...

23 de mai. de 1987

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fif...

26 de dez. de 1987

A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her par...

25 de jan. de 1977

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the past.

26 de out. de 1976

Michael Frayn play part of TV series Theatre Night.

02 de jan. de 1989

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal,...

13 de jun. de 1971

They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their really big event is the Christmas pantomime, only th...

25 de out. de 1973

Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.

05 de mai. de 1974

Arthur takes early retirement, and with his wife Marion, moves into a bungalow by the sea, bought by their son. However, disillusionment sets in af...

15 de nov. de 1973

Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a moto...

12 de abr. de 1977

A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine th...

26 de jan. de 1970

Katie, the 14-year-old daughter of a travelling family, is left in charge of an ailing mother and her nine brothers and sisters in Dublin whilst he...

13 de dez. de 1979

Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation s...

19 de fev. de 1973

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more ...

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written an...

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

A series of plays specially written for television.

This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he develops the Atomic bomb.

When his wife walks out leaving him penniless, a retired university professor finds himself having to start again and having to live in a run down ...