About a strike in a textile factory, based on a true story

A story exploring the Birmingham underworld

When a stockbroker loses his job, he decides to throw a party.

A young man participating in the Orange Parade in Glasgow becomes disillusioned with the pageant when he discovers its unpleasant and violent history and witnesses the participants' attacks on Catholics.

"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.

A elderly couple become disillusioned when they retire to their favorite holiday resort.

Two women, looking for amusement on their afternoons off, visit a drinking club.

Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'

"Well, I hope I won'be seeing you come home in that uniform much more. Six years - that's long enough out of any man's life." Mike's time is nearly up. The army gives him a weekend pass so he's home from Ulster to decide whether to sign on again. His parents want him to stay but he's wondering whether the family's own flare-ups aren't a bit too like the Troubles he has left behind.

One day in the life a nurse in a mental hospital

In a future society where euthansia is common, a man signs papers to have his father put down

Eleanor is unable to communicate her inner thoughts as she's bullied at school and virtually ignored by her parents. With a mundane working existence awaiting her, she desires a chance at another life - but at what cost?

England, 1945-75: Builder Alfred Bagley makes a fortune, with a little help from his friends.

The first (and last) day at work of a young apprentice in a bevelling shop at a Glasgow glass factory

A story about an asthma sufferer

Three young students suspended from school face various problems.

Home Sweet Home is a 1982 television film devised and directed by Mike Leigh, for BBC TV, 'about postmen, parenthood, social workers and sex.' It was Leigh's second collaboration with Play for Today producer Louis Marks, and cinematographer Remi Adefarasin, and with composer Carl Davis - the music score featured a quartet of basses -. It stars Timothy Spall, here working with Leigh for the first time, Eric Richard, Tim Barker, Kay Stonham, Su Elliot, Frances Barber, Sheila Kelley, and Lorraine Brunning. It was first broadcast on 16 March 1982. The film was shot on location in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. 90 minutes.

A man tries to break the world's record for nonstop piano playing

A couple look for the proper school, not for their children but for themselves.

""The Lie"" refers to the 8-year marriage of a couple who are constantly hurting each other.

A man claiming to be an angel enters the household of a bored housewife and teaches the family a few lessons.

A man is made redundant but can't bring himself to let anyone know, plunging into a web of deceit as he keeps up the charade he is still in work.

A man has a mid-life crisis in his brother's pub where sees life as a game show

A newly-appointed knight finds his celebrations cut short by someone who was witness to his treachery during the war.

A TV host and his architect brother attend their father's funeral