Michael Darlow

A BBC Sunday afternoon drama serial aimed at family audiences, telling the Arthurian tale from the point of view of Merlin, from his youth to old age.

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Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.

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In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time.

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Jane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As their love affair develops, they realize they have opposing views on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

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At the Trenartha Tin Plate Works a bitter industrial dispute has lasted five months. The founder of the company, the staunch conservative John Anthony, refuses to accede to the demands of the workforce, despite the cessation of output and the resultant decline in share value and despite the human suffering the strike is causing, especially to the families of the workers. Equally uncompromising is the strike leader David Roberts, who even opposes his own union by holding out for the workers' demands.

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Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being surpassed by those younger than himself. The arrival of a young woman called Hilda stirs up memories and feelings with stories of a promise he made her many years ago.

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Lots of pent up business people struggle to balance business with pleasure.

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Mr Pye travels to the Channel Island of Sark to spread the love of God. But doing good deeds means something strange starts to happen to him, he starts to grow wings.

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Mr. Pye is a missionary whose mission to spread God's love on the tiny English Channel island of Sark faces supernatural setbacks in this comic fantasy from the author of Gormenghast.

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A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

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Series of single made-for-television dramas.

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Financial and emotional accounts are settled as a family battle to survive in an unforgiving land.

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Jane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.

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Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him her money, she calls her mysterious lookalike gentlemen friends to her aid.

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Alfred Allmers has spent his whole life writing a book on "responsibility," a luxury he can afford as a result of his marriage to the wealthy and beautiful Rita. However, much to Rita's annoyance, his attention isn't always undivided toward her, as Alfred shifts his focus between his book, their son Eyolf, and his half-sister Asta. As Allmers slowly feels trapped in an unfulfilling marriage, emotions and a painful past threaten to boil over into a terrible finale.

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1997: A village cricket team (complete with computerised Wisden Almanac with the voice of Brian Johnson) is suspected of moonlighting as a private guerilla arm, fighting the Forestry Commission.

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Play for Tomorrow is a British television anthology science fiction series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 in 1982. It spun off from the anthology drama series Play for Today after the success of The Flipside of Dominick Hide on that strand. Each of the six episodes paints a vision of life in a future year, near the end of the 20th Century or at the beginning of the 21st.

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The local country dancing team of old-age pensioners is forced to change its style when Jack, its leader, arrives with a new partner, one who is younger and prettier.

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40 Minutes was a BBC TV documentary strand broadcast on BBC Two between 1981 and 1994. The documentaries could be on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes. Some documentaries in the original series were revisited and updated in a 2006 version, Forty Minutes On.

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Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.

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'Can you imagine, just try to imagine the numbers of good men who are going to be slaughtered this summer ...' Using a remarkable blend of dramatic techniques, this study of three English poets - who were also three courageous soldiers - gradually develops towards their historical and crucial meeting.

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In 1956, the British Prime Minister Anthony Eden grapples with the Suez Crisis, which brings an end to his political career.

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Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.

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What happens to provincial journalists when there's nothing in the news and they have a paper to fill?

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Comedy about a pub theatre group seen as dramatic revolutionaries by an actress with more than her share of imagination.

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The story of the love of writer and critic Willlam Hazlitt for the young daughter of his landlady in the 1820s.

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History of Germany from 1933 - 1945

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The Final Solution is set against the backdrop of WW2. It follows a relentless detective racing against time to solve a complex conspiracy. The plot weaves historical events seamlessly, capturing the tension and moral dilemmas of the era.

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The Final Solution is set against the backdrop of WW2. It follows a relentless detective racing against time to solve a complex conspiracy. The plot weaves historical events seamlessly, capturing the tension and moral dilemmas of the era.

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The World at War: A Special Presentation - Secretary to Hitler

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It was simple to live in the world in 1945 after the defeats of Germany and Japan. Did nearly 60 million people die for naught?

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Against a background of archive film, the voices of some sixty men drawn from all theaters of war recall the stories and thoughts of fighting and getting caught up in a conflict.

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A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

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The World at War: A Special Presentation - Secretary to Hitler

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Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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Noble Moroccan Othello finds his life with beautiful, fiercely loyal Desdemona thrown tragically out of balance when secretly jealous, scheming confidante Iago begins an insidious campaign of lies and treachery.

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The Final Solution is set against the backdrop of WW2. It follows a relentless detective racing against time to solve a complex conspiracy. The plot weaves historical events seamlessly, capturing the tension and moral dilemmas of the era.

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A dramatised documentary of the life and work of JMW Turner.

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The rise of Charles Dickens, from poverty to prosperity, traced and reflected in his writings.

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On February 24th, 1969, two days before he turned 37, Johnny Cash led his traveling troupe behind the foreboding walls of the California State Penitentiary at San Quentin, long known as one of America's toughest prisons.

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