Projects in genres: Drama

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At school, Rick, aged 6, paints a lion green and is rebuked. At home with his mother, Rick discovers his colour-blindness. Back at school, Rick cheats to paint a fire-engine red. Despite the teacher's praise, he sabotages his work with crazy colours. His classmates gleefully follow suit.

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The story concerns life at a spiritual retreat where a man and a woman encounter one another whilst searching for their own inner peace.
 
The values of the house require that they do not speak. Their relationship becomes painfully complicated as a result.
 
Listening is a poignant, bittersweet romance.

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Teachers! - Exhausted by kids who will only pay attention to what they are interested in? Tired of having your entire class disrupted by one cheeky brat? 'Nurilin' is the quick fix you need to deal with disruptive children. It's easy to administer and completely painless - use it for their sake. Available from your local chemist or by mail order.

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Martin goes down the pub to meet friends for an innocent drink, but soon it is clear that he hides a guilty secret. Will his friends still be his friends when they uncover it? This is the morale tale: Stand up for yourself, and you may pull a bird.
 

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When your bonfire gets stolen by a rival gang there is only one thing to do. Head through no man's land and steal it back.

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Hull 1955; Philip Larkin arrives at Hull University to take up the post of Head Librarian. His love affair with Monica Jones is already five years old and, with the publication of The Less Deceived, he is about to be catapulted into the public eye. But while Monica enjoys the reflected glory of their relationship, Larkin is terrified of the extra commitment she wants. In response, he begins a secret affair with one of his library staff, Maeve Brennan. While this relationship draws form Larkin some of his most romantic insights, it flounders on Maeve's Catholic faith; she doesn't believe in sex before marriage. And marriage is something Larkin cannot face.
 
Over the next fifteen years Larkin juggles Maeve and Monica, all the time playing faithful son to his mother Eva, while writing some of his greatest poems. But with Eva's death and the ending of his relationship with Maeve, the poems dry up. Not even a brief affair with his loyal secretary Betty provides any inspiration. Having sacrificed his life for his writing, Larkin is left with nothing. Until, haunted by impending death and his failed talent, Larkin in old age returns to his soul mate Monica.

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An enigmatic traveller seeks shelter from a religious hermit after an accident. The hermit appears mad or dangerous, but the traveller may not be what he appears.

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When Belfast boys Mo Chara and his friends Scud Murphy and Cerebral Palsy come into a young greyhound as payment for a favour done for hooky bookie J.P. McCallion, it's a dream come true. Owning their own dog is surely going to end a run of bad luck that's lasted since they placed their very first bets. But Cerebus is a greyhound with a mind of his own and until they have worked out the not-so-complex doggy psychology behind what makes him run, they're mired in a losing streak that's a mile wide. Deep in debt to the ruthless McCallion, sworn enemies of gypsies they have ripped off, for the boys everything's at stake at the most important event in the dog-racing calendar - the Clonmel meet - if only they and c]Cerbeus can get there in one piece.
 
A comedy of underdogs coming good without the aid of wisdom, guile or any natural or unnatural advantage whatsoever, proving that if you're not smart enough to recognise when you're beaten, you might actually end up winning.

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An intimate portrait of a psychiatric patient tormented by the relentless clanging of the hospital bell.

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Two childhood friends, Darren and Gary, re-unite for the funeral of an old acquaintance. Gary boasts of the life he's made in London in the four years since he's moved on. Darren is still living in the same town they're from. It doesn't take long before the timid and easily led Darren, drawn in by his charasmatic friend, finds himself in trouble as the pair check out their old haunts, mates and ex-girlfriends.

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In the summer of 1970, Belfast's lines of division were still being drawn. Two young boys from 'up the road' and 'over the bridge' escape the confines of a city overshadowed by hatred and fear by becoming their heroes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Together they swear an oath to be blood brothers for life and flee an imploding city for the freedom of the Australian outback.

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The countdown is on - in 7 days' time Britain converts to the Euro. It's the biggest opportunity the criminal world has ever had. Billions of sterling head for the incinerator. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing to do - spend it like there's no tomorrow.
 
But how can a 7 and 9 year-old hope to spend a quarter of a million quid a week? Anthony's black market operations bring hyper-inflation to the school playground and Damian wants to help the poor, but they're in short supply. Oh, and the train robbers want their money back.
 
Will they manage to spend the money before it's worthless. Will the school authorities discover what's going on? Or will the robbers get there first?