Bernard Atha

Billy Casper vit dans une petite ville minière du nord-est de l'Angleterre, à Barnsley, dans le Yorkshire. Il a une douzaine d'années et l'univers dans lequel il vit ne correspond pas à son attente. Sa mère ne s'occupe guère de lui son frère aîné Jude, le traite en souffre-douleur. Quelques petits travaux avant l'heure d'ouverture de l'école et de menus larcins lui procurent un peu d'argent de poche. A l'école, Billy est distrait, indiscipliné, entouré de camarades et de professeurs plus hostiles qu'amicaux.. Un jour, Billy déniche un jeune rapace; il vole alors dans une librairie un traité de fauconnerie et entreprend de dresser l'oiseau. Il se donne tout entier à cette tâche et lorsqu'un professeur, attentif, lui demande d'exposer à la classe l'art de dresser un faucon, Billy réussit à intéresser tous ses camarades...Mais le gamin a détourné une petite somme d'argent que son frère lui avait confiée pour jouer aux courses : Jude se vengera en tuant l'oiseau, le seul ami de l'enfant.

A missing 1950s era airplane is found 27 years later at the bottom of a lake. British and Soviet spy agencies are intensely interested.

Based on a short story by Edith Wharton. A lady's maid named Hartley finds employment with Mrs. Brympton, a lady who is confined to her country estate because of delicate health. Almost immediately Ms. Hartley realizes something ominous is occurring in the old house.

Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.

Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.

The true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, and their decisions result in Pauline's mentally handicapped daughter Paula being transferred from a care home for special needs children to an old people's home, where she is all alone.

A father leaves his grown-up family to move in with his lover in the south, alienating himself from his four children.

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in this enjoyable family film. Sequel to the 1975 film All Creatures Great and Small.

Dans un hôpital psychiatrique, la jeune Janice Baildon, 19 ans, répond aux questions du docteur Donaldson. Oui, son foyer est agréable. Oui, son père est un brave homme. Certes, sa mère est un peu autoritaire, mais, dans le fond, elle n'est pas méchante. Mais pourquoi, alors, Janice quitte-t-elle emploi sur emploi, sans jamais se fixer ? Pourquoi erre-t-elle dans les rues, inerte et pensive, jusqu'à intriguer la police ? Ses parents s'inquiètent, puis croient trouver la réponse à leurs tourments en apprenant que Janice est enceinte. Sa mère la contraint à avorter. Bouleversée, la jeune fille se réfugie chez son ami, Tim...

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

When Gerry Broadbent, in search of his roots, takes his fiancée Nita home to Brighouse, they find that the picture is not quite as he painted.

Cette série met en scène les exploits du célèbre détective Sherlock Holmes, adaptés des romans et nouvelles de sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy credits to British Television since the 1960s included the preceding 4 part mini series Get Lost! for ITV in 1981. The Beiderbecke Affair has a similar style to Get Lost!, where Neville Keaton and Judy Threadgold played in an ensemble cast. Although The Beiderbecke Affair was intended as a sequel to Get Lost!, Alun Armstrong proved to be unavailable and the premise was reworked. It is the first part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy with the two sequel series being The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection.

Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon. Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.

Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile constituency.

Days of Hope is a BBC television drama serial produced in 1975. The series dealt with the lives of a working-class family from the turmoils of the First World War in 1916 to the General Strike in 1926. It was written by Jim Allen, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach.

Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon. Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.