BBC2 Play of the Week

1. E1. Langrishe Go Down

   Sep 20, 1978 · 105m

   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.

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   E2. Fairies

   Sep 27, 1978 · 66m

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

3. E3. Fearless Frank

   Oct 4, 1978

   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.

4. E4. The Lost Boys: Part 1 – We Set Out to Be Wrecked

   Oct 11, 1978 · 100m

   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...

5. E5. The Lost Boys: Part 2 – Dark and Sinister Man

   Oct 18, 1978 · 100m

   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.

6. E6. The Lost Boys: Part 3 – An Awfully Big Adventure

   Oct 25, 1978 · 100m

   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.

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