Harry Markham

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

Mr and Mrs Cooper are staying at a boarding-house in the seaside resort of Morecambe with their small children, Colin and Jennifer. Mr Cooper has just been made redundant, but the family are trying to keep this a secret from the other guests. Also staying at the hotel are Keith and Jo, a young couple on their honeymoon, and an older couple, Mr and Mrs Thornton. Waking early one morning, Colin amuses himself by dangling one of his sister's sandals out of the window on a piece of string. The sandal accidentally lands on a flat roof just outside the window of the honeymooning couple, and his father's now straitened financial circumstances mean Colin has to get it back, by fair means or foul.

One hot June day, three friends decide there is nothing they would like to do more than to get away from London. A boating holiday with lots of fresh air and exercise would be just the very thing, or so their doctors tell them. So, after debating the merits of hotel or camp beds and what to pack, they set off on their voyage - a trip up the Thames from Henley to Oxford - but very quickly find themselves ill-equipped for the trials of riverbank life.

Witch Monica has the power to resurrect vampire that can destroy everything that exists on earth. The situation worsens when Monica starts working with Cooper, the master of the seas. Cooper sends man-eating crocodiles also capable of taking human form to create chaos. Only Jack, an honest man, can end the horrific killings. This Tomas Tang production steals a bunch of footage from the Thai film Krai Thong 2 (1985).

A married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.

A BBC dramatization of the Pendle witch trials of Lancashire, England that occurred in 1616.

A young priest is put in an agonising dilemma when he hears a confession of a murderer.

In Stalybridge, middle-aged scoutmaster Kenneth "Kim" McGrath begins to crack up under the strain of his personal and domestic frustrations.