BBC2 Playhouse

- Season 8

(1981)

An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.

A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.

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A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting.

A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.

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A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile.

A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.

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Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

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Shorty, an academic scavenger, believes he has tracked down some letters revealing an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.

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Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.

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At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.

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A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.

A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.