Edward Chapman – MRQE

Man on the Run

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

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.

The Card

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

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman…

Mandy

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

London, the early 1950s. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. As she reaches school age her family itself is in danger of breaking up. Christine, Mandy’s mother, has heard of a residential school for the oral education of the deaf.

The Magic Box

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

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife’s so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

School for Scoundrels

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

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey’s life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.

Just My Luck

Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Norman works in a jewellers workshop and fantasises (in the nicest way) about meeting the window dresser across the road from his workshop. He wants to buy her a diamond pendant but calculates it will take him over 100 years to save up for it. He is talked into betting a pound on a six horse accumulator at the Goodwood races with a slightly shady bookmaker. When he has won on the first five races, the bookie owes him over 16,000 pounds and everyone begins to worry. Everyone’s future depends on a single race … what can be done ?

Rembrandt

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This character study joins the painter at the height of his fame in 1642, when his adored wife suddenly dies and his work takes a dark, sardonic turn that offends his patrons. By 1656, he is bankrupt but consoles himself with the company of pretty maid Hendrickje, whom he’s unable to marry. Their relationship brings ostracism but also some measure of happiness. The final scenes find him in his last year, 1669, physically enfeebled but his spirit undimmed.

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.

Convoy

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

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

The Early Bird

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

Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues