Anna Maxwell Martin

A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman. (imdb)

A web of deceit and mystery surrounds the chancery trial of Jarndyce and Jarndyce that draws a large group of disparate individuals together. But are they more closely related than they think? And what's the connection between the Jarndyce case and the orphan Esther Summerson?

I Really Hate My Job is the story of the lives of five waitresses stuck in a second rate London restaurant with delusions of grandeur. Customers come and go, unaware of the real concerns of these women; a rat or two in the kitchen, bitter arguments about life and art, as well as a coup d'état in the kitchen... all overshadowed by the anticipation of a booking by a famous Hollywood film star. (wikipedia)

The story of Margaret Hale, a young woman from southern England who has to move to the North after her father decides to leave the clergy. The family struggles to adjust itself to the industrial town's customs, especially after meeting the Thorntons, a proud family of cotton mill owners who seem to despise their social inferiors. The story explores the issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her growing attraction to John Thornton. (Wikipedia)

N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad. (imdb)

Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) teams with Judi Dench and Steve Coogan for this powerful true story of an unmarried Irish-Catholic woman who, decades after being forced by her community to give up her newborn son, embarks on a search to find him with the aid of a BBC reporter. (tiff.net)

Alan Partridge gets caught up in an armed siege in his hilariously actiontastic first feature film. North Norfolk Digital is taken over by a huge conglomerate and rebranded as Shape radio. Sacked breakfast DJ Pat Farrell promptly goes postal with a shotgun and it's up to Alan to resolve the rapidly escalating hostage situation.

A three-part British television drama based on the best-selling P.D. James novel of the same name, a murder mystery continuation of the events of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice incorporating the same characters. (en.wikipedia.org)

Sarah Burton returns to a small, working-class town in Yorkshire, as headmistress of a local, failing girls' school, full of idealism and opinions. Britain's unforgiving class system is in strict effect as Sarah tilts against windmills to try to give all of South Riding's young women a chance at education and realizing their dreams. (amazon.com)

A pregnant man goes through labor in a maternity hospital. (imdb)

In 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking center, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer. (imdb)

The story of Reg Keys who lost his son in the Iraq War and then went on to contest Tony Blair's seat at Sedgefield in the 2005 General Election. (imdb)

This is a programme about navigating the trials and traumas of middle-class motherhood, looking at the competitive side and unromantic take on parenting - not the cute and acceptable public face of motherhood. (imdb)

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60 year old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. He sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government invested more in care for the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. An uplifting true story about a good man who set out to change the world and managed to save his marriage.

A British detective killed in action is brought back to life using experimental Artificial Intelligence.

Based on real events, this is the story describing journalist Heather Brooke's attempts to make British MP's disclose their expenses, under the Freedom of Information Act. The story shows the almost farcical pushback from the politicians.

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS tells the true story of Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby — two spies and lifelong friends, one of whom was betraying the other all along.

The lives of two sisters, Theresa, and her older head teacher sibling, Helen, and a missing child. (imdb)

While seeking to unravel the mystery of his twin brother's disappearance, reclusive puzzle-designer John 'Ludwig' Taylor takes on his twin brother James's identity as DCI on Cambridge's major crimes squad. (imdb)