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Series 5

Leeds - United!

Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Female workers at a textile factory clash with their own union in Colin Welland's story of a strike.

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Series 12

Country

Duration: 1 hour, 21 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

A family gathering, a christening and a dance. But it's 1945 and there are plans to be made, family wealth to protect and peace to be won.

Contributors

Sir Frederick Carlion:
Leo McKern
Philip Carlion:
James Fox
Daisy (Lady Carlion):
Wendy Hiller
Virginia Carlion:
Penelope Wilton
Alice Carlion:
Jill Bennett
Dollie van der Biek:
Joan Greenwood
Sir Piers Blair:
Alan Webb
Director:
Richard Eyre

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Series 13

Episode 8: Another Flip for Dominick

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Four

Time-warp drama. It is now 2132 and Dominick and Ava have a son, but Dominick is called back to 1982, where he visits Jane and his great-great-grandfather. Show more

Contributors

Dominick Hide:
Peter Firth
Director:
Alan Gibson
Caleb Line:
Patrick Magee
Great Aunt Mavis:
Sylvia Coleridge
Pyrus Bonnington:
Ron Berglas
Professor Burrows:
Michael Gough
Mrs Burrows:
Antonia Pemberton

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Series 3

Episode 20: Hard Labour

Duration: 1 hour, 10 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

Mike Leigh's play centres around a middle-aged housewife and charwoman who is abused and exploited by almost everybody, including her daughter-in-law.

Contributors

Mrs Thornley:
Liz Smith
Jim Thornley:
Clifford Kershaw
Director:
Mike Leigh

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Series 6

Episode 10: Rumpole of the Bailey

Duration: 1 hour, 5 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC FourLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

The original 1975 outing for top barrister, Horace Rumpole. He defends a case of assault, touching on themes of race, police corruption, literacy and his own powers of persuasion. Show more

Contributors

Horace Rumpole:
Leo McKern
Mrs Rumpole:
Joyce Heron
Mr Justice Bates:
Noel Williams

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Series 6

Episode 12: Nuts in May

Duration: 1 hour, 21 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: on BBC Four HD

Director Mike Leigh’s iconic tale of camping holidays and all the hazards involved. Keith and Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset campground for ten nights of idyllic bliss. Show more

Contributors

Candice-Marie:
Alison Steadman
Quarryman:
Eric Allan
Miss Beale:
Richenda Carey
The Farmer:
Matthew Guinness
The Farm Girl:
Sally Watts
Producer:
David Rose
Director:
Mike Leigh
Writer:
Mike Leigh

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Series 6

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Duration: 1 hour, 23 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC One LondonLatest broadcast: on BBC Four

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A trilogy of loosely linked stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon set in a Scottish east coast farming community in the interwar years. Dramatised for television by Bill Craig.