Harold Pinter – MRQE

The Caretaker

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

Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston’s brother, Mick – a taunting, quasi-sadist – harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders…

BBC2 Play of the Week:: Langrishe Go Down (TVE)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

Krapp’s Last Tape (TV)

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory.

Wit (TV)

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

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

Breaking the Code (TV)

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

A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

Rogue Male (TV)

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

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Mad About the Boy – The Noel Coward Story

Fri, 05 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The first ever feature documentary about one of the most talented, accomplished and multi-faceted artists of the 20th Century. An exploration of Cowards expansive career which features credits across the stage and screen, including Brief Encounter, Blithe Spirit, and Private Lives.

The Servant

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

Hugo Barrett is a servant in the Chelsea home of indolent aristocrat Tony. All seems to go well until the playboys girlfriend Susan takes a dislike to the efficient employee. Then Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister Vera as a live-in maid, and matters take another turn for the worse

Sleuth

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

Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke’s wife: the woman both are sleeping with.

Mansfield Park

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

When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she’s meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns ‘their’ ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own.