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Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.
One year on in their lives, Owen and Anna plan to marry. But Anna's ex-husband may have an other idea. He schemes to rip the couple apart. Can Anna and Owen survive this emotional trauma to become man and wife?
A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles.
Everyone has Halloween, but in Yorkshire, they have Mischief Night, where madness and mayhem rule. In the course of one night, the barriers that separate two families—one white, one Asian—come tumbling down in a blaze of crime, clubbing, love and fireworks—changing all their lives forever.
A planning decision must be made, and the motorway extension must go through on either the Golf Course or the Allotments - will the greens survive or the peasant lands?
Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
TV host, Melvyn Shag catches up with entertainment giant Roy Chubby Brown to take him back to his roots. Chubby's story starts in the north east of England in the hostile and deprived region of Grangetown, where he was brought up by his mum.. an odd way to give birth. Visit Grangetown Secondary, the school Chubby left with no qualifications, except an Open University Phd in Gynaecology, and some french he learnt from the Head Girl. Re-live that moment when Chubby meets the girl of his dreams.. and that other moment when he later divorces her. See Chubby uncovered for the comic colossus, the genius, the legend in his own lifetime that he is, in 'Roy Chubby Brown - Exposed'.