Claude Whatham

Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he...

Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...

James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his...

Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves...

'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta...

Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.

Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set...

An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.

William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter),...

When Mr Coleman was alive he found it hard to talk to his son. Since his death he finds it strangely easier.

John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...

American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial...

In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.

Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.

A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.

Play about a student, taken from his point of view, and his reactions to the pressures and vacuums of student life.

Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family.

Raucous satire from NF Simpson, the famous absurdist author of One Way Pendulum et al. Featuring Ralph Bates, Stanley ‘Howard Hughes’...

TV play by Beryl Bainbridge. Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.

Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.

Barry Reckord adapted his stage play for TV and his brother Lloyd plays the central character – a Jamaican new to London. When he begins a...

Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."

Winsome art critic Peter visits married artists Gilberto and Vera in Brazil for Christmas. Gilberto and Peter are more than friends though, and...

Series "Polyvinyl 33 1/3", was created three years ago, aims to bring together all their broadcasting those whose hobby of collecting plates showed...

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can...