Athene Seyler – MRQE

For Better, for Worse

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?

Treasure Hunt

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.

The Mill on the Floss

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.

Blossom Time

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer’s unrequited love for a dance master’s daughter.

Scrooge

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn’t a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

Nurse on Wheels

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer – at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.

I Thank a Fool

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane’s allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family’s dark secrets.

Francis of Assisi

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.

Visa to Canton

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

Make Mine Mink

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up “the dullness of the tea time of life” by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.