Projects in categories: Fiction

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From the day Patrick Smash was born he has intrigued doctors, parents and teachers alike with what can only be described as a special gift. His parents tried hard to be kind, tried to accommodate their unusual child but before too long they lost their sense of humour. Shunned by his own family, Patrick's only real friend is fellow scapegoat and child prodigy, Alan Allen. Together they dream of a day when they will not be bullied, when they can pursue their dreams, which in Patrick's case is to become a spaceman. Patrick soon learns to the surprise of many that he can turn his gift into a special talent, and with Alan he wins a non-assisted flight competition. Then, under the tutelage of Sir John Osgood, the world's second best opera singer, Patrick travels the world, secretly filling in the high notes for Osgood. A conspiracy that the world's leading opera star, Placido Placeedo, is about to expose when Patrick unwittingly causes his demise. Not only is Patrick denounced by the world's media, but in a further twist he is sentenced to death for his crime! His only hope lies in his true friend Alan and the clever people at the US Space Centre who eventually sit up and take a closer look at this extraordinary boy.

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The choreography of cooking, serving and eating. In this three-course seduction, a woman is dining privately with a wealthy man, while his personal chef and waiter lavish attention on her. But she has her own plans, which lead to a sticky end.

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To End All Wars is the true story of Ernest Gordon, a young Scottish student teacher who signs up with The Argyll and Sutherland Highland regiment at the outbreak of the Second World War. In 1942, during the fall of Singapore, the regiment is captured by the Japanese and taken to a prisoner of war camp in Thailand. Despite the threat of execution, the regiment's proud Colonel James MacLean and his loyal Major Ian Campbell are committed to escape and defiant in the face of their implacable captors. Established prisoners, including Dusty Miller advise compliance in line with the Japanese code of Bashido, which demands dedication to the Emperor. Also held in the camp is American Lieutenant Tom Reardon, an opportunist who believes self-interest is the only reliable method of survival. MacLean and Campbell are ordered to meet with Lieutenant Colonel Nagatomo and Captain Noguchi and learn that they have 18 months to build 420 kilometres of railroad into the jungle. When MacLean protests and robustly refuses to sign documents pledging they will not escape, he is executed. Work on the 'railroad of death' begins in appalling conditions. Famine, fear and disease sweep through the men as they buckle under the strain.

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Interactive documentary (online, broadband, with full-screen full motion video) about tooth whitening.

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Tony, who spends his days working in a London auction house surrounded by valuable works of art, enlists the help of underworld figure Brendan and his henchmen Nick and Philip, to steal a painting by Goya. But things don't quite go according to plan - Tony is left concussed and Brendan and his associates are left with a worthless poster reproduction. Tony claims he has amnesia, and swears that he's hidden the original Goya somewhere for safekeeping, but can't remember where. After trying to beat the information out of Tony, to no avail, it strikes Brendan that hypnotherapy might be the answer, and takes Tony to Harley Street hypnotherapist, Sarah Lamb, randomly picked out of the Yellow Pages. Sarah finds out exactly what's going on, and rather than shop Tony and the gang to the police, she decides that she wants to be in on the scam. Sarah's skills as a hypnotherapist enable her to manipulate minds and memories to her own advantage. The tension - sexual and otherwise - mounts as the boundaries between the real and the imagined, the obvious and the hidden, the genuine and the fake become increasingly blurred as the search through Tony's subconscious continues, and the action builds to a nail-biting climax.

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Beatrice is disillusioned with her husband and her life. Until one night when she is whisked away by Columbine, who shows her a world where she can be herself. But he is not all that he seems and Beatrice must decide in which world she can truly be content.

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A disturbing psycho-sexual thriller which, through a highly plotted story, examines how easily we can manipulate, and be manipulated, by the ones we love. Using genetic engineering as a metaphor for the atrocities committed in the concentration camps, TRINITY explores the potentially disastrous consequences of searching for perfection in the human form. A young female officer, Schiller, is accompanied by her ex-lover, superior officer Brach, on a mission to recover a rogue geneticist Doctor Clerval. Together they investigate a distress signal from the gene camp in which Schiller was incarcerated. So begins their entanglement in a deepening web of convolution, doubt and deceit.

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The main characters, Jim and Duncan, are both unemployed, but always seem to have money. Newly returned from a Spanish holiday, Jim is sporting a fresh deep cut to his head, through misadventure during his holiday. They befriended a Spanish couple when returning back to Scotland, where they now live. The couple invite Jim and Duncan back to their house for a small party. During the party the Spanish man starts to film with his video camera. As the night progresses the Spanish couple retire to their bed, drunk and tired. This is when you start to see Jim and Duncan for who they really are, and the reason why they're at the party. They gather up their hosts' belongings, including the video camera, and leave with them. From this point onwards we explore the sometimes funny, but twisted world in which they live. They seek disturbing delights and highs in the form of mugging, theft and housebreaking, recording everything they do, on the stolen camera. Jim is still very annoyed about the cut on his head, after his affections for a married woman while on holiday were not received well by her husband. Jim only has revenge in mind.

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Nina, a London professional girl, comes to terms with the theory of 'falling' when she meets Sheena, another girl who seems to have so much in common with her. Friendships, relationships, lesbianism, lust and psychic trickery in London.

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Three people strung upside down on a truck, taken on a short drive, describe what they see and hear. We hear their immediate reactions to being upside down plus a sense of their changes of outlook during their lives.

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Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to motivation tapes of his own voice shouting 'Sell, sell, fucking sell' and his punters are up to their eyes in debt. Even Tommy admits his 'soul's in holes'. He's sure the Golden Vac (the holy grail of vacuum salesmanship) can be his - if only he hadn't been saddled with Pete, a meek sales trainee trying to help his girlfriend quit stripping. A made for TV film.

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Veerapan is India's most wanted criminal. Wanted for murdering 130 people and poaching 2000 elephants, he has been on the run for 12 years. Chris Hooke sets out to find him.