Theatre 625 Season 4, Episode 22: The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Talking to a Stranger, Part 1: Anytime You're Ready I'll Sparkle

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

90 min

Talking to a Stranger, Part 2: No Skill or Special Knowledge is Required

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

90 min

Talking to a Stranger, Part 3: Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

90 min

Talking to a Stranger, Part 4: The Innocent Must Suffer

Over the course of a single weekend, the Stevens family's lives will change forever.

90 min

Conquest: The Encounter

Conquest: The Leopard and the Dragon

Amerika

After a minor scandal involving a servant girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.

120 min

The Family Reunion

Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.

Anatol

Sword of Honour, Part 1: Men at Arms

Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.

Sword of Honour, Part 2: Officers and Gentlemen

As he journeys through the Second World War, Crouchback undergoes various grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.

Sword of Honour, Part 3: Unconditional Surrender

At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.

A Slight Ache

Married couple Edward and Flora explore their dreams and desires, primarily Edward's fears of the unknown, of aging, and of the 'Other' as a threat to his self-identity.

58 min

A Night Out

Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for 'a night out' with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.

60 min

The Basement

An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.

55 min

Hotel Torpe

As a Man Grows Older

Kain

Brothers Kain and Rattler Sutherland live on a Northern Territory station. The unstable Kain clashes with the more laid-back Rattler over several issues - money, treatment of local Blacks, cattle, but most of all, their Aboriginal housemaid, Kaita, whom Kain is convinced Rattler has impregnated.

The Loser

The Winner

The Fantasist

The Blood Knot

Henry IV

In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?

Firebrand

The Plough and the Stars

A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.

Tickle Times

55 Columns

Stan's Day Out

The Cupboard