Billie Whitelaw – MRQE

An Audience with Mel Brooks (TV)

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mel Brooks talks about his life and career to an invited audience, and with others entertains on the stage, leading up to the release of his film To Be Or Not to Be.

A Tale of Two Cities (TV)

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

Dissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton’s undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.

The Cloning of Joanna May (TV)

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

Joanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna’s life impossible. 10 years later she’s fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV)

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

After Elizabeth’s husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, an all-girl (with one exception) swing band. Accompanied by the exception and urged on by her grand-daughter, Elizabeth hunts up all the old members of the band and urges them to perform, and in doing so, learns more than she knew about the band, its members, the roses on the drum set, and herself–the last of the Blonde Bombshells.

A Murder of Quality (TV)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

At the request of his old war time colleague Ailsa Brimley, George Smiley agrees to look into the murder of Stella Rode. Brimley had only just received a letter from her saying she feared for her life at her husband’s hand. The husband, Stanley Rode teaches at Carne School, but Smiley is doubtful that he had anything to do with his wife’s death. As Smiley investigates, he learns that Stella was a nosy busybody who loved to learn other’s little secrets and then gossip about them – or possibly blackmail them. When a student is killed and Smiley unearths a secret, he has the evidence to name the killer.Based on John Le Carré’s 1962 thriller (his first) in which George Smiley is brought out of spy retirement to solve a murder in a British public school. The setting is based on Le Carre”s own schooldays in Sherborne and his brief experience teaching at Eton.

The Dressmaker

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

In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.

Gumshoe

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

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Breakout

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

A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.

Quills

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

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum’s resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

The Lost Son

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

Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man’s parents hire Xavier over their daughter’s objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children’s sexual slavery.