Play for Today

E1

The Long Distance Piano Player

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

1h 15m

E2

The Right Prospectus

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

1h 15m

E3

The Lie

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

1h 15m

E4

Angels Are So Few

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

1h 15m

E5

The Write-Off

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.

1h 15m

E6

I Can't See My Little Willie

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

1h 15m

E7

A Distant Thunder

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

1h 15m

E8

Hearts and Flowers

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

1h 15m

E9

Robin Redbreast

A woman living in a country cottage thinks that someone is trying to get her.

1h 15m

E10

The Hallelujah Handshake

A petty thief and social misfit finagles his way into a church congregation

1h 15m

E11

Alma Mater

A civil servant working abroad revisits his old school

1h 15m

E12

Circle Line

A cynical student has a radically different view of life from his landlady, leading to conflict. Matters come to a head when he sleeps with her fourteen-year-old brother.

1h 15m

E13

Hell's Angel

A couple are distressed by the changes in their adopted teenage son when he joins a biker gang.

1h 15m

E14

The Piano

An old couple refuse to move when they find out that they can't take their piano with them

1h 15m

E15

Billy's Last Stand

Billy, a self-employed coal-shoveller, gains a seedy business partner and competition in the form of a rival coal-shoveller.

1h 15m

E16

The Rainbirds

A man who attempted suicide by jumping out a window is saved only to live in a coma, in which he has fantasies about his relatives and nightmare creatures.

1h 15m

E17

Reddick

Charges that the Rev 'Red' Reddick is exploiting his youth club members leads to an explosive confrontation.

1h 15m

E18

The Foxtrot

An odd menage a trois results when a woman and her lover are visited by her long-lost husband

1h 15m

E19

When the Bough Breaks

When an injured baby arrives at the hospital, a social worker looks for the parents

1h 15m

E20

Orkney

A trilogy of plays--A Time to Keep, The Whaler's Return, and Celia--exploring the life of the islanders in the past and present

1h 15m

E21

The Rank and File

The story of the Pilkington glass workers strike of 1970

1h 15m

E22

The Man in the Sidecar

A succesful novelist Edith lives with her husband and his friend, but she decides to ask the friend to leave.

1h 15m

E23

Everybody Say Cheese

The story of a disintegrating marriage told through family photos

1h 15m

E24

The Cellar and the Almond Tree