BBC2 Play of the Week Season 2, Episode 9: The Vanishing Army

Langrishe Go Down

In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his esoteric thesis. Imogen Langrishe, the least repressed of the sisters, begins an affair with Otto. Imogen takes the love affair seriously, but Otto just enjoys the cheap lodging and the comfort of Imogen.

105 min

Fairies

How could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?

66 min

Fearless Frank

The outrageous – and not entirely reliable – memoirs of Irish writer Frank Harris, sometime cowboy in the Old West, friend to the famous in the literary world, essayist and critic, and seducer of beautiful women.

The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

1897: A quiet afternoon in Kensington Gardens. A little boy in a red tam-o'-shanter realises he is being watched by a small man with a huge St. Bernard. The man is J. M. Barrie...

100 min

The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

1906: Arthur is gravely ill. Sylvia turns more and more to Barrie for help. A wealthy man following the huge success of Peter Pan, Barrie is only too happy to respond.

100 min

The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

1913: Three years have passed since Sylvia's death. George is now a man and Michael, 13 years old. For the Llewelyn Davieses, childhood is at an end, and illusions are about to be destroyed.

100 min

Return Fare

A man adjusts to freedom after years incarcerated.

89 min

Another Day

Abandoned by her husband, Eileen tries to make the best of bringing up her children in a rundown bed-sit. A man called George shows her attention, but others are suspicious of his motives.

Night People

A classical string quartet stop at a motorway cafe in the early hours. Among the people they meet are a football supporter, a travelling salesman and an elderly couple who are going to Gretna Green to get married.

Renoir, My Father

A dramatisation of the life and work of the artist Auguste Renoir, based on the book by his filmmaker son, Jean Renoir.

On Giant's Shoulders

A middle-aged childless couple on a remote farm adopt a Black boy with no limbs due to the effects of Thalidomide. They encounter a great deal of resistance and scepticism from their friends and neighbours.

90 min

Stepping Out

A middle-aged woman who enjoys making lavish ballgowns wishes her daughter would visit more often.

A Light That Shines

At a teaching Order, Conroy is asked to mentor promising student Stephen, who is feeling pressured.

In England's Green and Pleasant Land

Authorities must decide if the repentance of a reformed convicted murderer is genuine so he can be prepared for release.