Nicholas Farrell

The five motherless Bastable children struggle to save their inventor father from financial ruin.

In 1879, Spanish archaeologist Marcelino and his daughter Maria discover seemingly impossible paintings of galloping bison adorning the walls of a hidden cave. The cave of Altamira brings the world together in amazement, drawing people of all types to see the paintings in person. But, Marcelino soon realizes that the art on the walls must be 10,000 years old, earlier than anyone believes possible.

A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative work. The great Romantic poem of human consciousness, it takes as its theme 'the growth of a poet's mind': leading the reader back to Wordsworth's formative moments of childhood and youth, and detailing his experiences as a radical undergraduate in France at the time of the Revolution. Initially inspired by Coleridge's exhortation...

Those with the job of thinking the unthinkable face the greatest challenge of their lives. Old orders are failing- tired democracies falter in the face of violence in the streets. A storm of financial might and technological horror is gathering. Calvin November, a messianic figure, makes a Presidential bid and an astonishing offer. Primitive animal fear drives a messenger through a winter night with a warning nobody wants to hear. The action moves...

Prince of Denmark, Hamlet, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

All the secrets burst open, as Matron Luckes clashes with Sister Russell for leaving London to help a family in the slums, while Dr. Culpin clashes with Bennett for giving up studying to be a doctor. And Mr. Dean, supposedly clean, returns to work in the Operating Theatre. In the dead of night a sweatshop fire brings in scores of children, and the staff struggle to avert tragedy.

Dr. Culpin is powerless to help when Ethel Bennett rushes to her dying brother in a naval hospital. Star surgeon Mr. Dean faces destruction through his cocaine addiction. Sister Russell breaks the strict rules of Matron Luckes when she sneaks out of the London to help a young mother.

What is the secret of probationer Nellie Bowers when Sister Russell catches her sneaking out to see a mysterious young man? What is the secret of the woman brought in wearing pauper's clothes but silk underwear? And what is the dangerous experiment that the brilliant pioneer Dr. Henry Head decides he must risk performing on himself?