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- What is the monstrous plot against Laura Fairlie? An artist must find out.
- A lesbian Don Juan, a suffragette and a 17th-century Italian painter are just two of ten remarkable women who speak to us in this drama documentary - an intimate portrait of their lives and a woman's view of history.
- Two childhood friends reunite after years of being apart. They have both gone through some tough times and are looking to re-live the good times. However, things take a dark turn when they fall into the world of drugs alcohol and relationships with bad people. One friend is struggling with addiction and the other is in a toxic relationship. They must navigate through this world together and try to come out on the other side to save their sanity and their lives.
- The unexpected arrival of a blind man complicates a murder plot by adulterous lovers.
- The characters are the cast and creatives of a forthcoming West End production who have gathered in the designer's flat to talk about the play. Enter Detective Inspector Hughes to discuss an anonymous and life-threatening letter which the designer has received from one of the others present. Tensions mount and someone is murdered - but not, as we might anticipate, the recipient of the death-threat.
- After his daughter weds, a middle-aged widower with a profitable farm decides to remarry but finds choosing a suitable mate a problematic process.
- A television dance program, The Owl and the Pussycat was a modern jazz ballet choreographed by Gillian Lynne based on Edward Lear's 1871 nonsense poem of the same name. It was a West Region BBC production that was directed by John Irving. The BBC Television Service began broadcasting in November, 1936 and ended in April, 1964.
- A publishing house ask Nigel Strangeways to look into a scandal involving General Thorseby's new book which is considered libelous but instead it's murder.
- At the end of a long party, a woman is embarrassed because her husband has not arrived to collect her, as promised. Her hosts have to go, and leave her there. That's when the strange things begin to happen.
- "Anne Lister, an outwardly conventional gentlewoman living in Halifax at the beginning of the last century, had a secret life that would have shocked local society. Her diaries, written in such a complex code that they were not deciphered until the 1980s, reveal that she was really a lesbian Don Juan." (Radio Times, 30/4-6/5/1994).
- "The remarkable story of two women who became the subjects of experiments by men. Dr James Barry was born a girl but lived most of her life disguised as a man. And Hannah Cullwick, a working class woman turned into a high-class lady". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994).
- "The drama documentary series about the lives of extraordinary women continues with a look at two pioneering journalists. In 1858, Victorian editor Bessie Parks founded the first newspaper run by women for women. Fifty years later, Emilie Peacocke became one of the first women reporters to work in Fleet Street". (Radio Times, 7/5-13/5/1994).
- "Seventeenth-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi has been remembered more for being a loose woman than a talented artist. At the age of 17, she was raped, and the record of the trial reveals how her reputation as a woman and a painter was ruined." (Radio Times, 14/5-20/5/1994).
- "The only two British women to write first-hand accounts of slavery: Mary Prince, who was born into slavery in 1788 and left her owners after moving to London, and Lady Maria Nugent, the wife of a slave owner in Jamaica in 1801'. (BBC Active, video synopsis, 2005).
- "In 1912 Sarah Benett, aged 52, and 54-year-old composer Ethel Smyth shared neighbouring cells in Holloway Prison. Their crime was breaking windows - a tactic used by suffragettes to draw attention to their fight to win votes for all women. Sarah Benett's recently discovered diary sheds light on their remarkable tale". (Radio Times, 21/5-27/5/1994)