John Bird Filmes

Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new...

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...