Ray McAnally
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A Perfect Spy traces the rise and fall of Magnus Pym and his career through intelligence. From chance meetings with people will be important to him in the future to a life in Czechoslovakia, Washington and finally on the run in England Pym weaves his way through the complicated world of espionage. Where no-one is safe from betrayal, not even his father.
2) Episode 7
Description
The final reckoning. Every dog has its day, but as the fallout from the enquiry starts to take its toll, the everyday problems of government continue unabated. Despite the fact that no-one is actually talking to each other any more. The Home Office have cut police numbers, created a huge backlog of arrest paperwork, and managed to blame DoSAC for the enormous queues at police stations. At Malcolm's suggestion, Dan Miller gets sent on a fact-finding...
3) My left foot
Description
The story of Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy. He learned to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
5) Taffin
Pub. Date
1987
Description
When a small Irish town is terrorized by a corrupt business syndicate, a lone hero wages an all-out war.
6) Episode 6
Description
Shahid turns up at the Inland Revenue and Zahid realises there is big trouble in the family firm. Hilary presses Lloyd about their relationship and he has to get a new job as a security guard. They "come out" as a couple at a dinner party but Lloyd gets upset when Hilary describes him as a security consultant and he leaves. Janet and Florrie are shattered that Bernard only gets a 2 year sentence for manslaughter for Chris's death. Gary becomes puzzled...
7) Episode 5
Description
With Nicola Murray and Peter Mannion both on the back foot after the unravelling of the key-worker housing sell-off policy there's inevitably going to be a scramble for the moral high-ground while the smelly floodwater of scandal is lapping round their toes. In fact, several people are calling for some sort of enquiry. Everyone wants to spin the story, and everyone wants their own version of the story out there, by fair means or foul. But as more...
8) Episode 4
Description
With Nicola safely on a train to attend the party's Here 2 Hear in far-flung Bradford, Malcolm is free to launch his latest plot. But how is Olly going to be able to help, given that he's in St Thomas' Hospital with a burst appendix? And what will Ben Swain's price be, for playing along with the scheme? More than a bar of chocolate, that's for sure. And when Nicola finds out what's going on, can she control the situation from a seat in standard class...
9) Episode 3
Description
After the disastrous encounter at the Walsh family barbecue, Conor and Jock have one last chance to make Linda and Siobhan fall for them. They suggest to both girls that they should spend one full day with them, all four together, on what they hope will be a beautiful adventure. If they don't want to hang out with them after this day, then the lads will give up pursuing them. The girls, sensing an opportunity to rid themselves of the lads once and...
10) Episode 2
Description
Conor and Jock's friendships with Principal Walsh's daughters Linda and Siobhan intensify, causing awkward tension between the lads, the principal and the girls themselves. As they spend more time with Siobhan and Linda, both lads become increasingly aware of complicated feelings that are more noticeable with each meeting. Despite everyone's best intentions, things get out of hand fairly quickly, with a show-stopping spectacle getting hilariously...
11) Episode 1
Description
In the spring of 1957 newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee arrives in the East End of London to begin her career. After overcoming the initial shock that her new home, Nonnatus House, is a convent rather than a private hospital she quickly becomes immersed in her new life. Living with Nuns and working in a community of colourful characters, such as Conchita Warren and her 25 pregnancies, is different from anything Jenny has encountered previously. Through...