Effie's Burning

The Play on One

A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.

Greed

Greed is a rock opera come musical set in a small Welsh village. The 1% own 99% of the wealth and control the people of Abertaff. Rotkin the evil manipulator must die. Through protest or music?

The Skin Horse

An award-winning, ground-breaking TV documentary dealing sensitively with the topic of sex and intimacy within the disabled community.

The Fifth Gospel

A documentary about disability and Christianity from Nabil Shaban and Tina Leslie.

Dismantling a Dream

A Labour government imposing cutbacks on the National Health Services is the theme of Dismantling a Dream. Pilger recalls the establishment of the NHS in 1948 and Health Minister Aneurin Bevan’s declaration that the “silent suffering” of the old, young, chronically sick and handicapped had no place in a civilised society. But, in December 1976, an official report revealed that thousands of children who could be saved were dying.

A Different Hand

A musical comedy drama about a young woman (played by Tina Leslie) rebelling against society's attitudes (including her parents, her doctor, her priest and teacher) towards people like her who are without hands or in other ways different. Everyone is trying to force her to wear artificial hands, everyone except for her disabled friend (Nabil Shaban), who assists in her revolt.

Cowboys in the South Pacific

Dr Danforth Artie Bookout leads his team of intrepid Texans to search for an aircraft and the body of Weyland Bennett , "a home-town boy", missing in action 50 years ago. Deep in the bush sits Chief Jean Marc waiting for his Texan pay packet to lumber into view. And two days' walk behind the Texan strides a local explorer who knows the secrets of Dr Dan's past.