Dorian Ford

1937. Laura Henderson vient tout juste d'enterrer son cher époux et... elle s'ennuie à mourir. Que faire de sa vie quand, à soixante-neuf ans, on est riche, en bonne santé, et qu'on ne cultive aucun goût excessif pour la nostalgie ?À la surprise générale, Mme Henderson décide d'acheter un théâtre au coeur de Soho : le Windmill. Totalement ignorante des histoires de gestion d'une salle de spectacles, elle fait appel au talentueux Vivian Van Damm, directeur artistique et administrateur chevronné.Les deux fortes personnalités ne tardent pas à se heurter, et Van Damm, choqué par les excentricités et les mauvaises manières de Mme Henderson, va jusqu'à lui interdire l'accès du Windmill !Cette étrange et fiévreuse relation ne tardera cependant pas à porter ses fruits. Mieux, elle bouleversera très vite les frileuses habitudes du théâtre britannique !

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.

Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.

Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.

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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.