Vera Jakob
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The Dancing Years (1976)
The story of a young composer and his relationship with a fiery opera star over the course of several decades.
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and...
King of Fridges (2004)
A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank...
Beautiful People (1999)
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from...
Pat and Margaret (1994)
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...
The Life Story of Baal (1978)
An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a young poet who rejects the norms of society and...
Secret Army (1977)
World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the...
The Paradise Club (1989)
Focuses on brothers Frank and Danny Kane. Their mother is the matriarch of a South London criminal gang, assisted by Danny. Frank has become a priest...
Widows (1983)
Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their...
EastEnders (1985)
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End...
Clayhanger (1976)
Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by...
Scorpion Tales (1978)
Scorpion Tales is a British anthology that aired on ITV in 1978, featuring one-off, hour-long plays with twist endings. Produced by ATV, the...
Ladies in Charge (1986)
Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames...
An Actor's Life for Me (1991)
Robert Neilson has ambitions to play Hamlet but will do most acting work. His fiancée, Sue, and agent, Desmond, gently encourage his...
Trial & Retribution (1997)
Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police...
Heartland (1979)
A series of plays concerning the theme of love.
Will Shakespeare (1978)
A dramatisation of the life of famed playwright William Shakespeare from 1590 to 1607.