Ludovic Kennedy

Documentary about the sinking of Nazi Battleship Bismarck. Contains video material from the wreckage, computer animations and old looking video material.

A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.

Documentary about HMS Eagle from 1966. This aircraft-carrier was sailing from Mombasa to Singapore under the command of Captain John Roxburgh. Join the crew through their trails and tribulations

A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling shares his opinions on the Twelve Days of Christmas, in discussion with Ludovic Kennedy.

A documentary film about the effects of nuclear weapons. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was dropped on a large city? How effectively would various types of shelter protect us? In an experimental trial, two couples live in fallout shelters for ten days each.

A documentary about the BBC's Lime Grove studios

A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the main issues by Ludovic Kennedy and Group-Captain Cheshire.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of pioneering aviator and American hero Charles Lindbergh. This documentary examines lingering doubts about the justice of his conviction. (1982)

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect. With contributions from Jeremy Isaacs, Gus Macdonald, David Plowright, Michael Parkinson, Gerry Robinson and Sir Denis Forman. Director David Thompson

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of pioneering aviator and American hero Charles Lindbergh. This documentary examines lingering doubts about the justice of his conviction. (1982)