BBC Play of the Month

- Season 3

(1967)

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Loosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.

Long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

A schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.

The magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island - but a storm brings visitors from the past.

Three women over 50, Agatha, May and Lucy, set up housekeeping together.

John Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.

Weekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.