Summer Season

Gerald, a man who abandoned his family 21 years ago, hopes to reunite with them.

The Roarettes are a gang of women bikers led by dazzling, androgynous Rachel. She walks into a pub, and into the life of Melanie, who, observing the free lifestyle of the Roarettes, starts questioning her own values and expectations.

Phoebe comes straight from a farm and a very religious family to work as a kitchen maid in a girls' school. It is wartime, and the other maid is Stella, a Londoner whose approach to life is, to say the least, more forthright.

Life in the Assessment Centre is far from easy: all the other girls want to know what you are in for. Shop-lifting? Truanting? Or something far more spectacular?

Two old ladies meet in Glasgow and weave fantasies about trips to Paris.

After a drunken woman falls off a bus, and is taken to hospital overnight, she starts to have disturbing memories.

The play involves a glamour photography session. During the photo-shoot the photographers begin trying to coerce a model into posing topless, leading eventually to an angry outburst from the model.

Tension between the East and the West escalate and the radio warns that a nuclear war is becoming a distinct possibility. Liverpudlian Michael Angelis takes his two young sons to London by train. The older of the two boys, Carl, is a chess prodigy. The younger son is a normal boy with no interest in chess. They arrive at a Chess event where visiting Russian Grand Master Krylov plays several games simultaneously. Unbeknown to his accompanying KGB escort Krylov is hoping to manufacture an opportunity in which he can defect. Krylov easily beats all of his opponents except for Carl. After a long struggle they reach the decisive point in their game, while the tensions between East and West also reach a climax...

Actors rehearse and record a radio play.

A comic exploration of the pros and cons of bringing a baby into the modern world, featuring not only Jill and Michael, the potential parents, but elephants, dwarf mongooses - and sticklebacks.

In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter.

A torturer confronts his victims.

John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.

A successful novelist is roped in by his old chum from college days to do a bit of spying on the side in Eastern Europe, with disastrous results.

A comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounted a round-the-clock guard at his palace. Unfortunately for Private Postnikov, he hears the cries of a drowning man and goes to his rescue.

Henry is a teacher, but his dream of man-powered flight and his habit of destroying the odd greenhouse on his test runs threaten his career. His daughter Ruth would dearly love to retrieve her bicycle wheels from his flying machine.

Teresa has been on a visit to the Holy Land. When she returns, she goes to Father Doyle to confide news of a miracle and his faith is put to the test.

About a newspaper reporter in Norfolk and his investigation into crimes & corruption Tim Roth plays news paper reporter trilby hat with a card in the hat band Studio play for today style at BBC Pebble Mill studios Birmingham. Sadly Roy Kinnear left to go to Spain for Muskiteers Film and within to weeks had had a terrible accident and passed away god bless him. David Rappaport & Roy Kinnear had there sons visit set on last day of recording in Studio A.

Independent pensioner Mrs Malby is not the least bit interested in an offer of domestic help from pupils at a local school. A teacher misinterprets her refusal and dispatches his community action quartet to brighten up the old lady's life.

What do the characters on the seaside postcards get up to in private?

It's November 1941, and a group of German officers are billeted in Anton Chekhov's old house in Kirov Street. The house is now a museum guarded by Chekhov's sister for whom the war is just another unwelcome disturbance.

Bill is a middle-class English boy sent by his father to serve an engineering apprenticeship on the Clyde. He lodges with a Greenock family and forms an attachment to his landlady, which is to affect his life for the next 20 years.

A young couple book a hotel room for a dirty weekend.