Explorers in Africa persuade an exiled chief to help them find a diamond mine.
A regency dandy enjoys a close relationship with the Prince of Wales; when this is eventually withdrawn, he dies in penury.
Aristocratic Hedda Gabler returns from her honeymoon with her new husband, the pedantic scholar George Tesman, already bored and discontented.
To benefit the Ford Martin Fund, for the welfare of children suffering from leukaemia.
An elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, visit the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle.
The story of Amyclas, King of Sparta, his daughter Calantha and their court in Classical Greece.
In Dorset in 1770 an orphan boy finds that his elegant guardian leads a gang of smugglers.
Lady barrister Harriet Peterson tackles cases in London.
The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned as a debtor in Marshalsea prison.
A hard-up generalโs wife invites American paying guests to their official highland home.
A feminist writer snags herself a Chelsea flat but has to take in flatmates to help pay the bills.
A theatrical agent loses his star singer and thinks again about his secretary.
A young man sets up his own agency to rival the BBC.
In Regency times, an aristocratโs love for her less fortunate friend is repaid by jealousy, treachery and murder.
A young girl holidaying in Crete with her Aunt becomes involved with jewel robbers.
A young actress comes to New York intent on stardomโฆ
In 1625 on Exmoor, a farmer comes to love an outlawโs daughter who proves in reality to be a kidnapped heiress.
A man, his wife and her lover are shipwrecked on a desert island.
Wedding preparations are complicated by family guests.
Gifted and compassionate psychiatrist Dr Roger Corder spends his life analysing others.
An Argentinian laird in a Scottish glen causes ill-feeling.
A wife-murderer marries a barmaid and tries again.
At the turn of the 20th century, a jilted French artist becomes a vagabond and falls in love with an orphan girl.
An engaged young man saves a girl from suicide and falls in love with her.