David Troughton – MRQE https://mrqe.com Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:01:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png David Troughton – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Cider with Rosie (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/cider-with-rosie-m100081161/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/cider-with-rosie-m100081161/ Made by Carlton Television for ITV (UK) , this adaptation of Laurie Lee’s autobiographical novel follows a young man’s maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World War I. As young Laurie (Dashiell Reece) comes of age under the protective eye of his mother (Juliet Stevenson), he learns to live with an eccentric collection of friends, neighbours, and relatives. As he enters his teenage years, Laurie (now played by Joe Roberts) discovers women, specifically Rosie Burdock (Lia Barrow). Veteran screenwriter John Mortimer adapted Lee’s book, with Lee narrating.

]]> Sharpe’s Rifles (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/sharpes-rifles-m100046768/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sharpes-rifles-m100046768/ During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and is promoted to Lieutenant. In order to pay the troops Wellesley needs a money draft from the banker Rothschild, but fears he has been captured by the French and sends Sharpe behind enemy lines to find him. Sharpe is given command of a platoon of crack riflemen, led by the surly Irishman Harper and including Hagman and Harris, who resent Sharpe as not being a ‘proper officer’.

]]> Sharpe’s Eagle (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/sharpes-eagle-m100098340/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sharpes-eagle-m100098340/ Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.

]]> Twelfth Night, or What You Will (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/twelfth-night-or-what-you-will-m100050695/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/twelfth-night-or-what-you-will-m100050695/ Multicultural version of the Shakespearean tale Twelth Night, Made in modern day society featuring Anglo-Indian cast.

]]> The Levelling https://mrqe.com/movie/the-levelling-m100118204/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-levelling-m100118204/ Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family’s struggling Somerset farm.

]]> ChickLit https://mrqe.com/movie/chicklit-m100117931/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/chicklit-m100117931/ ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a ‘mummy porn’ novel in the style of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman ‘author’ does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to ‘role play’ the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control – leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.

]]> “Fingersmith” https://mrqe.com/movie/fingersmith-tv-m100000789/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/fingersmith-tv-m100000789/ A young woman is hired as a maid to an heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a gentleman to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.

]]> Nina Forever https://mrqe.com/movie/nina-forever-m100113300/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/nina-forever-m100113300/ Holly loves Rob and tries to help him through his grief even if it means contending with his dead girlfriend Nina, who comes back, bloody and broken, every time they make love

]]> “Jericho” https://mrqe.com/movie/jericho-tv-m100090669/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/jericho-tv-m100090669/ Jericho is an ITV British crime drama series which was transmitted in 2005. It was created and written by Stewart Harcourt and starred Robert Lindsay as Detective Inspector Michael Jericho, who is loved by the public but who is embarrassed by his status as a hero. The series was set in London in 1958.

The series was shown in the United States in 2006 and 2007 as part of the PBS Mystery! series and by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2008.

]]> Captain Jack https://mrqe.com/movie/captain-jack-m100050676/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/captain-jack-m100050676/ A sea captain with a vessel not deemed sea worthy by the ship inspectors assembles a motley crew to sail along the path of Captain Scoresby, a sea captain who sailed from Whitby in northern England to the Arctic in 1791. His crew includes bickering sisters, an Australian hitchhiker who is hiding from his girl friends, and the seaman’s confidante who runs a local trailer park. Putting the ship to sea, the group is pursued by the authorities.

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