Simon Butteriss

1880'lerde Londra. W.S. Gilbert çabuk sinirlenen ama duygusal açıdan mesafeli bir söz yazarıdır. Gilbert, güleryüzlü, eğlenceyi seven, hafif operalarla tatmin olmayan ve daha ciddi çalışmalar yapmak için yanıp tutuşan besteci Arthur Sullivan'la birlikte çalışır. Sullivan bir yaratıcılık krizine tutulmuştur, Gilbert'ın ise Lucy ile olan evliliği yıkılmak üzeredir. Her ne kadar o duygularının karşılığını veremese de, Lucy kocasını sever, ayrıca onun hasta babasıyla da uğraşmak zorundadır. Gilbert ve Sullivan'ın popüler komik operaları o güne kadar hiç başarısızlığa uğramamıştır, ama basın, son eserleri Prenses Ida'ya kayıtsız kalır. Lucy, Gilbert'ı bir Japon sanat sergisine götürünce, ilham bulan Gilbert Mikado'yu yazmaya karar verir. Sullivan birlikte çalışmayı kabul eder. Uzun provaların ardından, oyun seyirci karşısına çıkar ve büyük övgü alır... KARMAKARIŞIK başkalarını güldürmek için eziyet çeken, çırpınan sanatçılar hakkında bir film.

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.

Composer John Wilbye spent his entire working life in the employ of Sir and Lady Kytson at Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. Unusually, after his second book of Madrigals was published in 1609 it appears he did not compose again despite being kept on at the house by Lady Kytson until her death in 1628. Draw On Sweet Night examines this mystery in a sumptuous costume drama, produced in collaboration with renowned vocal group I Fagiolini.

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters, themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems.

Simon Butteriss' in-depth look at the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, the story of the first lyricist-composer double-act who sought to transform the Victorian music halls.

Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion (2009), The Red Dahlia (2010), Deadly Intent (2011), and Silent Scream (2012).

This classic period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family, living peacefully in Arnescote Castle until the onset of the English Civil War in 1640. Sir Martin Lacey, the head of the family, is steadfastly loyal to the King. However the family is torn apart when his eldest daughter Anne weds John Fletcher - son of a merchant family who support the forces of Cromwell.

Stalky & Co. is a faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name (less one chapter and the afterstory chapter). Kipling was telling tales based on his own public school experiences as a boy (he is 'Beetle' in the book), and he did an excellent job of capturing the tenor of life in 'the Coll,' a school that catered to boys who would go on to govern and defend the British Empire in the Civil Service, Foreign Service and the military.

A madcap three-part miniseries about a sex-mad Eurocrat trying to sleep with his servant, his frustrated aristocratic wife and her toy-boy, and a love-child who's forced into marriage with his own mother, not to mention cross-dressing, blackmail and a death-defying leap from a second-floor window.