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Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.

Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon. A man immune to worry, disease, and even the common cold. They think they have found him until the impossible happens at Woomera.

A young man employed by a cigarette factory is tired of his working class status and joins a gang planning to rob the factory warehouse.

A young girl is attacked by a vampire named Carmilla, who later reveals her true identity as Mircalla, Countess Karnstein.

May 1960. The Cannes Film Festival, Actress Jayne Mansfield has fallen victim to a serial burglar ,John Robie - the Riviera's infamous cat burglar immortalized in Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief' .

Having rented Il Rosaio on Capri to write the screenplay for The Third Man, Graham Greene uses the cheque Alexander Korda paid him to buy the house and spends much of the next 40 years living and writing there. He is therefore perfectly placed to not only conduct his own affairs with first Catherine Walston (on which The End Of The Affair is based) and then Yvonne Cloetta but observe others like Orson Welles, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor, Brigitte Bardot, Jean-Luc Godard, Jackie Kennedy (Onassis) and Sophia Loren at play.

Flo, a Florentine artist is working at an art gallery when the 1966 Flood of the Arno River strikes, killing many people, damaging or destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. As Flo, buries her loved ones and discovers the impact of the flood on art and history, will she pick her self up and learn to build a future along with the rest of Florence.

Julia, a young Polish woman kidnapped by a garage owner named Max, lives in pitiful conditions. He uses her because his business is bankrupt. She sleeps in an old caravan, fighting the December winter cold. Nobody knows anything about her and her past and yet a picture of a man she conceals will perhaps become her redemption. Will she find the strength to get rid of it ? "The will is by its nature so free that it can never be constrained"

In Dec 1923, Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso, Modigliani & the women of Paris were mourning France's premiere poet & novelist, dead at just 20. But who was he and why has his name been forgotten? The mourners reminisce about his life and ponder this question with his spirit in the afterlife.

Follows a River Pilot through a day's work on the Thames.

The BBC Head of Radio Drama is waiting for world-renowned playwright Samuel Beckett to arrive. But while he is waiting in front of Broadcasting House for the great man, Beckett has arrived via the underground garage. A mechanic working on a car gives Beckett directions to get into the building but of course this does not lead him past the increasingly impatient Head Of Radio Drama. As a result, the two men circle the modern architecture of the building in increasingly fraught manner trying to find each other, with several near misses. Eventually, they do meet each other after a comfort break, but it turns out that Beckett's time is done and he needs to leave for another appointment: "Sorry, I have to go!" So the waiting is over.