Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Jeremy Irons, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Mason, Michael Bilton
Young and talented Charles leaves London for Oxford. His acquaintance with Lord Sebastian changes the lives of both young people. On a sunny day, Sebastian takes Charles to the family mansion. Charles's meeting with Charles' Catholic mother and sister and friendship with Sebastian begins a struggle of love, friendship, commitment, forbidden love, destiny and religion. A struggle that continues for years...
Stars: Brian Cox, Nick Reding, Frederick Treves, Bill Nighy, Jeremy Irons
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
Stars: Anton Lesser, Jodhi May, Greg Bennett, Matthew Rhys, Eloise Webb
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, someone tells the story of two completely different men who have one thing in common...
Stars: John Junkin, James Wilby, Hugh Simon, Rupert Graves, Judi Dench
A woman's secret affair and a death in the family accelerate the destruction and decay of an upper-class English family...
Stars: Helen Mirren, Helena Bonham Carter, Rupert Graves, Vass Anderson, Barbara Jefford
After a wealthy widow during the "King Edward" empire suddenly marries a handsome but poor dentist from "Tuscany" and dies in pregnancy, her English relatives try to take custody of the child...
Stars: Christopher Hunter, John Hurt, Theresa Russell, Beverly D'Angelo, Paul Brightwell
Ten short films made by ten different directors, with almost no dialogue, but about operas composed by different composers...
