Beryl Reid – MRQE

“Smiley’s People”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn’t want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.

The Wind in the Willows (1983/I) (TV)

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

Toad, Rat, Mole and Badger follow animal etiquette in this version of Kenneth Grahame’s classic, in stop-motion model animation.

“Beiderbecke Tapes, The”

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

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Trevor’s hands, Trevor and Jill find themselves being pursued by national security agents.

Caruta cu mere

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shaw’s comedy of ideologies looks forty years to the future at the impossibility of government as the British cabinet and monarchy face a day of “crisis” for the country. King Magnus is happy to engage a prime minister seeking to transform the nation into a constitutional monarchy, but who truly rules in this democracy: the king, the government or the businessmen? And do any of them care about the people?

Carry on Emmannuelle

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The beautiful and sex-starved Emmannuelle Prevert just cannot inflame her husband’s ardour. In frustration she seduces a string of VIPs, including the Prime Minister and the American Ambassador. A jealous lover gives a list of all her conquests to the national press and a scandal ensues. But will she ever manage to get her own husband into bed?

Rosie Dixon – Night Nurse

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

Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide’s Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can’t keep their hands off her.

Star!

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

Joseph Andrews

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

Lady Booby alias ‘Belle’, the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph’s heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph’s Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He’s found and nursed by an innkeeper’s maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

No Sex Please: We’re British

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

A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, David (the bank’s assistant manager) and his new wife are shocked when photos, then films and finally two girls are sent to them in their bank-supplied flat. They and the banks’ head cashier then hatch a plan to get rid of the pornwithout letting their boss, the local police and David’s mother in on what is happening.

Psychomania

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

A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don’t necessarily turn out as expected…