c 1980 to c 1989

A mixed-race girl growing up in Leeds finds out that Yvette, her outspoken French-Canadian mother, is working as a sex worker from the family home. In time, by revealing their truths, two women find that they're able to call a truce on hostilities and overcome oppressive ghosts.

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies an...

Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies an...

Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, 'Burnt Sugar' unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds two women together, making and unmaking them endlessly.

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her arranged marriage to join an ashram, took a hapless artist for a lover, rebelled against every social expectation of a good Indian woman - all with her young child in tow. Years on, she is an old woman with a fading memory, mixing up her maid's wages...

This is our dancing time. Yamaye lives for the weekend, when she can go raving with her friends at The Crypt, an underground club in the industrial town on the outskirts of London where she was born and raised. A young woman unsure of her future, the sound is her guide - a chance to discover who ...

It is 1974 and the summer of love is finally drawing to a close. Tully and Kate become inseparable and by summer's end they make a pact to be 'best friends forever'. For 30 years Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship, jealousy, anger, hurt and resentment...

Change is in the air for Jack Sheffield and the Ragley village school. It's 1987, and after a decade as head teacher at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, Jack's looking to the future. He and his wife are expecting a new baby, the school is preparing for the introduction of the new National Curriculum,...

Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their...

Malibu: August, 1983. It's the day of Nina Riva's annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their...