This ambitious and addictive BBC drama, tracing thirty years in the lives of four working class friends from Newcastle starting in 1964, is at least as good as any of the current much lauded series emanating from the US. Mary's mistake, Nicky's idealism, Geordie's escape to London and Tosker's ambition are played out against a backdrop of social change, police corruption and swinging times. find out more...

An ambitious and rather addictive BBC drama tracing thirty years in the lives of four friends from Newcastle starting in 1964. Mary's mistake, Nicky's idealism, Geordie's escape to London and Tosker's ambition are played against a backdrop of social change, police corruption and swinging times. find out more...

An ambitious and rather addictive BBC drama tracing thirty years in the lives of four friends from Newcastle starting in 1964. Mary's mistake, Nicky's idealism, Geordie's escape to London and Tosker's ambition are played against a backdrop of social change, police corruption and swinging times. find out more...

It's 1980s East Germany and our anti-hero, an accomplished surveillance officer, is ordered to spy on a successful and outwardly loyal playwright and his actress girlfriend, but the motive is not entirely political, involving the lust for the girl of a political commissar and the career prospects of his immediate superior. The Stasi officer is dragged into the Kafkaesque web created by this moral duplicity in this compelling and twisting tale. First class. find out more...