Richard Curson Smith

Comedy drama - based on real events - that centres on the 1934 'trial' of artist Salvador Dalí for alleged crimes against Surrealism by Andre Breton, the founder of Surrealism, and other key members of the movement.

The biography of John Wolfenden's personal and professional struggle to reform the British law concerning homosexuality, often against his own biases. (imdb)

In December 1926, best-selling mystery writer Agatha Christie suddenly vanishes, After ten days, she is discovered staying in a Yorkshire hotel claiming amnesia. A psychiatrist must try to solve the mystery of those lost days.

TV Hell documents programmes and broadcasts where the conception of the production was misguided. Many of the resulting catastrophes caused promising careers to be curtailed, or in some cases led to a review of entire channels. The term "TV Hell" has since been adopted in media culture to describe television programmes which are not very good.

Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,Emily's employer. It is an arrangement for them both - in James' case to stop the family home passing to James' cousin Alec Osborn and his Anglo-Indian wife Hester. (imdb)

Francis Bacon was the loudest, rudest, drunkest, most sought-after British artist of the 20th century. Twenty-five years after his death, his canvases regularly exceed £40million at auction. Bacon's appeal is rooted in his notoriety - a candid image he presented of himself as Roaring Boy, Lord of Misrule and Conveyor of Artistic Violence. This was true enough, but only part of the truth. He carefully cultivated the facade, protecting the complex and haunted man behind the myth. (imdb)

The true story of Pinochet's surprise arrest for crimes against humanity in 1998. Then retired, the 82-year-old former dictator went to Great Britain for a vacation that was to forever change his life--and the prospects for dictators across the globe. (HBO)

Lucy Worsley travels to Salzburg and London tracing the life of Wolfgang A. Mozart and especially the year he and his family stayed in London. It was on London soil that Wolfgang would compose his first symphony. His father had to learn marketing in London to advertise the concerts, and Wolfgang did play to King George. But things would take a strange turn before they headed home.

A disturbing, darkly comic tale of a man who attempts to sever all contact with the outside world, by simply staying at home. As Gerald Ballantyne rids himself of the surface clutter in his life he is lead to a startling discovery; a mystery about the house begins to reveal itself, though possibly only in his fevered mind. The changes begin to obsess and take control of Ballantyne, bring his experiment to a chilling climax.