Projects matching: Stephen Cookson

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Retired scientist Arthur has been working on a youth reviving elixir for decades. One night he finally manages to perfect his creation, partly by accident - but before he can share the news with his wife Joan, Arthur is struck down by lightning and his secret formula dies with him. During the sad process of going through Arthur's things, Joan, and her friends, Linda and Susan, come across a small stock of the elixir in the garden shed. They try it out and start to enjoy being young again... which of course also comes with its own complications.

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Two couples from East London travel to the seaside to enjoy a day out at the beach. They reflect on their memories whilst observing that Brighton has changed and that society is also changing too.

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Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, 'Steven Berkoff’s Tell Tale Heart' is the story of an unnamed servant who sets out to convince the viewer of his sanity by narrating the meticulously calculated murder of his old master whose “vulture eye” was too much for him to bear. The servant describes carefully dismembering and hiding the body under the floorboards. Convinced he can still hear his victim’s beating heart, the murderer’s guilt drives him to confess to the killing.

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Stanley finds himself in prison for a crime that he believes that he didn’t commit. After many years in solitary confinement he begins to talk to his comedy heroes from the past as each one tries to help him remember what he has done. We follow Stanley through his journey of hallucinations as he faces up to his unusual upbringing and his parents’ bizarre religious beliefs. Stanley becomes desperate to learn the truth about what happened to his daughter and what lead to having this ordinary life he has already dreamed of. Award-winning actor Timothy Spall plays Stanley and all the characters in his hallucinations; from the flamboyant Noel Coward to the grotesque Max Wall to the ukulele king George Formby, to Egor in a Transylvanian castle.

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In the run up to Christmas a 15-year-old boy whose mother is involved in a serious car accident, has a dream that she needs an angel's halo to be saved.

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Joe Spratt has just been laid off from his mining job along with the rest of his town but with the help of the world famous explorer Professor Bathandler and a number of other experts set upon a journey to the moon not only to save his hometown, but the whole of the British Empire! Who could have known what they were to find living on the Moon and the people back on Earth that didn't want the gallant heroes to return in one piece.