Julie Glover

At his father's wake, a young man sets about the task of finding out more about his father by interviewing the guests. Faced with the usual platitudes and pleasantries, normally bestowed on the recently deceased, he challenges the guests to expose their honest feelings and memories...

A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.

Waterloo Road is a British television drama series set in a comprehensive school of the same name, first broadcast on BBC One on 9 March 2006, and concluding its original run on 9 March 2015. It was recommissioned in 2021, and resumed starting 9 January 2023. At the failing comprehensive school, and later academy of the same name, the professional and personal lives of the students and staff are examined. Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.