With Anton Rodgers, Lucy Gutteridge, Julian Holloway, Rosalind Ayres.

When Sophie, the manicurist, learns that her best friend Muriel is to be married to the notorious and middle-aged Lord Quex, she determines to prevent it by exposing him for the despicable roué he is. But her plans go badly wrong. Pinero’s bitter-sweet comedy, first performed in 1898, scandalised the playgoers of the day with its unblushing portrayal of marital and sexual mores.

Adapted from the play by the British writer Arthur Wing Pinero.

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Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.

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Four-part adaptation of Iain Banks’s blackly humorous novel. Student Prentice McHoan carries out his recently deceased grandmother’s request to find out what happened to his Uncle Rory, who disappeared seven years before. The chance discovery of a novel that Rory had begun working on at the time of his disappearance takes Prentice and his childhood friend Ashley on a complex journey through his family history.

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Extras
Commentary by Bradley Adams (Producer), Gavin Millar (Director) and Bryan Elsley (writer) on episode one only.
Interview with Iain Banks, author of the novel.

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Resolving the riddle of the Sphinx makes Oedipus the king of Thebes, but he also resolves another mystery – and it destroys him.

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On his last night in London, Walter Hartright’s life is changed forever after a chance encounter with a mysterious woman, dressed in white and in deep distress. Travelling north, Hartright takes up a post as a drawing master to Laura Fairlie, a beautiful woman bearing an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white. Soon Hartfield, Laura and her half-sister Marian, find themselves drawn into to the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his charming friend Count Fosco, a man with a taste for white mice and vanilla bonbons. Only by unravelling the mystery woman’s dark secret can they escape from the web of deceit closing around them. Chilling, thrilling and filled with suspense and twists, this compelling BBC adaptation perfectly recreates the intrigue and drama of Wilkie Collins’ classic novel.

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Michael Brooke wrote:
Alan Bennett’s debut play for television shows a day in the life of the members of a Halifax cycling club in 1911, following them from the town to the ruins of Fountains Abbey and eavesdropping on their conversations, which range from the inconsequential, to the reflective, to the ruefully ironic.

The most telling example of the latter comes when Boothroyd explains why there will never be another war, as the play is set three years before World War I cut swathes through a generation – and, as the 1919 coda implies, many of the club’s members as well.

We also learn about their relationships with women: Gregory’s palpable fear of his mother, Cross’ shy hesitancy with Florence, Edgar’s confident sexuality, Ackroyd’s happy domesticity and, finally, Shorter’s bitter misogyny (“There’s no nobility about them, women. It’s all mundane – one day to the next. No large view, no theory, all practice.”).

For them, the day out provides a temporary freedom from dull routine, offering them at the very least a chance to air feelings to sympathetic ears, if not rather more potent opportunities – though both Edgar and Cross ultimately turn down what’s offered them in favour of loyalty to the club.

Somewhat surprisingly, given that the BBC had been broadcasting colour for some time, A Day Out is in black and white. This was because it would make it easier to achieve a convincing period feel on a small budget – and the hazy, lyrical cinematography recalls the work of Jean Renoir, particularly the similarly brief Partie de Campagne (France, 1936), which also had a dark, pessimistic undertone.

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Comedian Tony Hancock stars, in this BBC situation comedy TV series, as Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living in East Cheam.

Episode 1:
THE BEDSITTER
(26th May, 1961)
Alone in his bedsitter one evening with nothing to do and nowhere to go and Hancock’s telephone rings…

Episode 2:
THE BOWMANS
(2nd June, 1961)
In a radio studio, they’re doing an episode of the rural melodrama “The Bowmans”(a play on “The Archers”). Cast member Tony ad libs and can’t keep in character. He’s going to get sacked, so he tries to make the most of his final programme.

Episode 3:
THE RADIO HAM
(9th June, 1961)
In Tony’s seedy flat, he has a massive ham radio set up, which he wiles away time with talking to improbable foreigners. But when an opportunity to be a hero arises from a distress signal, Tony’s not up to the challenge.

Episode 4:
THE LIFT
(16th June, 1961)
At BBC Television Centre, Tony and several others are trapped in a lift just as the workday is ending.For several hours he regales the his less than thrilled captive audience with mood-swinging tirades of philosophy and group singing.

Episode 5:
THE BLOOD DONOR
(23rd June, 1961)
Tony goes to donate blood, but typically, he turns it into an issue of status and class when he discovers he has a rare type. He bothers the hospital staff by insisting on updates as to who receives his elite blood.

Contains extra audio track with commentary by Paul Merton with Ray Galton & Alan Simpson.

Episode 6:
THE SUCCESSION: SON & HEIR
(30th June, 1961)
Our hero searches for a son and heir to carry on the Hancock name – but a son means marriage, and marriage involves finding a suitable bird…

Extra:
GALTON & SIMPSON INTERVIEW

6.56GB | 1h 25mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

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