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Bank Holiday (1972)
Character: Girl
18-year-old friends Todd and Towzer set off by motorbike to spend a Bank Holiday weekend in Scarborough. Their long hair, cut-off denim jackets, medals, badges and swastikas lead to hostility from everyone they meet, including the police
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Braces High (1980)
Character: Mrs Hammond
A parcel left on a bus causes concern when the bomb squad are called. Instead it contains a pair of trousers with braces and £370 in one pound notes. Scotland Yard decide to bring Inspector Hammond out of retirement to solve the mystery.
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Able's Will (1977)
Character: Ada
Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.
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Renoir, My Father (1978)
Character: Aline Charigist
A play about the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his film director son, Jean Renoir.
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Leila (1978)
Character: Leila
Leila is a young mother who wants to return to work and decides to train as a sewing machine mechanic. Her husband is opposed to her taking work in a field traditionally restricted to men.
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Knots (1975)
Character: N/A
A touring company of actors arriving at a theatre, rehearsing and preparing a performance of a revue based on the book 'Knots' by R.D. Laing, devised by Edward Petherbridge
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Super Grass (1995)
Character: Mum
Greg is growing a marijuana plant in his basement flat. When his parents visit he gives them "herb" tea. After becoming very giggly they leave. After this Greg's friend arrives and they smoke a joint together. Then his gran arrives with her friend who steals some of the plant. Then the drug squad arrive.
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Days at the Beach (1981)
Character: Bridget
In 1920 a trio of British soldiers have to guard an exploded mine washes up on a beach. Part of the BBC2 Playhouse strand.
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Two Men from Derby (1976)
Character: Freda Hayes
Two men from Derby County FC are keen to make a new signing, but he is not at home. His wife promises he won't be long and makes conversation with them while attending to her household chores.
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Bermondsey (1972)
Character: Rosemary
John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.
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Misterioso (1991)
Character: Joan Glen
On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her birth father, finds him running a jazz club in London, and learns a lot of happy and sad things about her family that she didn't know before. The title of the film is the classic jazz piece, "Misterioso," by Thelonious Monk, which features prominently in it.
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Housewives' Choice (1976)
Character: Joyce
Marcia is looking for someone to look after her baby and Joyce seems ideal, looking like a perfect, kindly, respectable lady.
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The House That Jack Built (1977)
Character: Lu
For Jack, the dream was to live in a castle with grounds big enough to ride a horse for two hours. For Lu, it was the dream of love. Shelagh Delaney's drama Charts 10 years of a marriage from wedding night to the present day
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Secret Society (2000)
Character: Janice
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.
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Outland (1981)
Character: Hooker
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
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Buddy's Song (1991)
Character: Carol
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...
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Absolution (1978)
Character: Louella
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
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Signs of Life (2025)
Character: Joyce
A grieving woman is rescued by a lonely traveller after a dangerous encounter on holiday.
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The Tamarind Seed (1974)
Character: Sandy Mitchell
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
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Look to the Light (2024)
Character: Nan
An aspiring reality star’s quest for fame collides with true love and leads him on a path of destruction.
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Missing (2006)
Character: Mrs. Susan Greenside
Sybil Foster escapes from a psychiatric hospital, only to find herself the prime suspect in a series of murders. The police investigation, led by DS Doug Duvall unearths skeletons from her past, and a link to a prominent political figure who may hold the key to unlock the secrets of the past - and open the door to solving the mysteries of the present.
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Doctor Who: Ghost Light (1989)
Character: Control
The Doctor takes Ace on an initiative test to a strange Victorian old house where she is forced to confront her darkest fears.
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Rogue Trader (1999)
Character: Patsy Sims
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
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