A selection of scenes, sketches and music to celebrate the life, times and achievements of Thomas Hardy.
Category: Thelma Dryden
1989
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Larkrise
Larkrise depicts the lives of a small rural community in Oxfordshire from a harvest day in the late 19th century up to calling the names of the village dead in the First World War.
1988
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Pack of Lies
All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.
1987
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House Guest
Robert and Stella learn that their son has been kidnapped – not for ransom, but to force them to allow one of the kidnappers to remain in their house.
1987
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The Matchmaker
Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Yonkers, NY, has a plan. He has been a widower for long enough and now he wants to find a wife.
1986
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The House By The Lake
Maurice plans to eliminate his half-brother Colin, but Colin’s unhappy wife is also prompted to murder him. When the body is found the question arises: who is responsible?
1984
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Devil May Care
Trainee devil, Nicholas has been sent to Monte Carlo to lure souls for the Powers That Be. At the Hotel Splendide he meets another (higher level) trainee Virginia.
1984
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A Murder Is Announced
An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s home dies Miss Marple turns up to solve the case.
1983
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There Goes The Bride
A beleaguered advertising executive struggles to plan his daughter’s wedding after a knock on the head leaves him confused and obsessed with a beautiful, but imaginary, young woman.
1983
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Ten Times Table
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history. But there’s a left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.
1982
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Dangerous Corner
Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining guests – all of whom are associated with Robert in a publishing business. Robert tries to uncover the truth about his brother Martin’s “suicide”.
1982
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Harlequinade
Harlequinade is the story of two ageing actors desperately trying to cling to the ever-diminishing limelight while rehearsing for a production of Romeo and Juliet.