Maureen Lipman Movies

Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...

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...

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend...

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and...

Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.

It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch,...

The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.

A dark-themed and redesigned West End production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's seminal Broadway musical tells the story of farm girl Laurey and her...

A dark and delicious foray into Angela Carter's extraordinary life with animation by Peepshow Collective, rare archive and family photos, and...

This star-studded gala celebrates the centenary of the birth of legendary Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' contribution to musical...

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the...

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...

Based on the story of Nina Voronel's husband, a physics professor and Jewish "dissident" in the Soviet Union.

A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality. On one of his sales he...

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

A story about a Jewish girl and a Palestinian guy on their wedding day. But this is not a standard Romeo & Juliet story of forbidden love - there is...

Hull is the UK's City of Culture for 2017. In this BBC Arts documentary, the wonderful Hull-born comedian Lucy Beaumont, writer and star of the Radio...

A musical version of the life of the 17th Century English radical politician, John Wilkes, who campaigned for the right for voters to determine...

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

A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.