David Dawson

A look at the rise and slump of Gracie Fields during the war years, from marrying her Italian husband Monty Banks to touring the battlefields of Northern France, culminating in the tour of Canada that nearly cost her her career.

The story of one man's struggle to make a programme that no-one wanted: how creator Tony Warren overcame formidable obstacles to bring Coronation Street to British TV screens. (BBC)

Celebrating the achievements of Ballets Russes under Diaghilev's guidance and their continuing influence on dance, art and music today.

The play begins as a love story, with a Duchess who marries beneath her class, and ends as a nightmarish tragedy as her two brothers exact their revenge, destroying themselves in the process. (Wikipedia)

British convicts have been sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. As they try to live their new lives, they have to live with the new rules. The soldiers also have to adjust. (imdb)

The streets of London's East End are awash with blood. But this is not the 19th Century; this is not Jack the Ripper - this is a copycat killer and once again the police remain clueless. (imdb)

The Last Kingdom is an adaptation of Bernard Cornwell's Saxon Stories. The books follow Uhtred of Bebbanburg from a boy taken from his birthright and raised by Vikings, later fighting for King Alfred the Great and his son Edward. Shield walls, blood, revenge and the forging of many Kingdoms into one nation, a dream of Alfred's called England. (imdb)

Verloc, the owner of a seedy shop in Victorian Soho, plays a dangerous game spying on an agitating anarchist group that will prove useful to the foreign power he is secretly working for.

The arrival of Patrick into Marion and Tom's home, triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous (imdb.com).

An Extended family and four young people are drawn into the world of ska and two-tone music, which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late '70s and early '80s which united black, white and Asian youths. (imdb)