Jack Gold – MRQE

The Naked Civil Servant (TV)

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.

Good and Bad at Games (TV)

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

The story, told partly in flashback to 1968, concerns a clique of English public schoolboys who bully and humiliate an unpopular younger pupil (Cox) who is ‘bad at games’. Ten years later Cox uses the naive and equal outsider Niles, who is only included in the clique because he is ‘good at games’, to find out more about the lead persecutor (Mount), in order to exact revenge

Red Monarch (TV)

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

British comedy satirising Stalin’s inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: “Even in the best democracy errors are being made!”

ITV Saturday Night Theatre:: Catholics (TVE)

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

Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has eliminated much of the original dogma of Catholicism. A group of Irish monks rebel against this situation and react back to the past: they begin to say Mass in Latin and act according to traditional Catholic dogma. So, Rome decides to send a representative to investigate what is happening

Escape from Sobibor (TV)

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

The true story of WWII’s notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.

Goodnight, Mister Tom (TV)

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

We’re in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. “Mr. Tom” Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now children evacuated from London are overwhelming volunteers to house them. Practically under protest, Mr. Tom takes in a painfully quiet 10-year-old, who gradually reveals big problems.

The Return of the Native (TV)

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

Eustacia Vye, an exquisite beauty despairing at her boring life on an English moor, sets up a fateful lovers’ triangle when she uses her wiles to entice two men, a dashing suitor and a successful man who made his name abroad and returned to his home on the heath.

The Tenth Man (TV)

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

During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.

Mad Jack (V)

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

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

The Reckoning

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him – after 37 years – back to his hometown Liverpool, where he is confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died because of a fight with some anglo-saxon teddy boys. It becomes “a matter of honour” for him, to take his revenge without involving the British police