BBC Play of the Month Season 11, Episode 8: French Without Tears

Chips with Everything

Pip is a socialist who has seen the squalor of the East End, typified by greasy cafés offering 'chips with everything'. Pip is also the only privately-educated recruit in a draft of other National Service recruits. He's tried to buck the system by not applying for an officer's commission.

The Little Minister

In rural 1840s Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new 'little minister' of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems, and they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and--worst of all--Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

102 min

Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.

120 min

When We Are Married

At the turn of the 20th century, a set of long-married couples discover that due to a bureaucratic quirk they have never actually been married.

75 min

Trilby

Trilby, a young Irish girl in Paris, falls under the influence of the sinister hypnotist Svengali.

Loyalties

The Chester Mystery Cycle

A quartet of mystery plays originally based in Chester.

90 min