Murphy is a humble pen-pusher in a cardboard box factory who tries to brighten his life with home movies, tape-recording, and homemade wine. But success can come from failure...

A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.

An account of the famous 'Calas case', in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.

Anyone who doesn't conform to bourgeois norms in a post-apocalyptic world is ritually executed.

A woman is given in marriage to the man she longs for, but, because she's of lower rank, he refuses to accept. It becomes her challenge to win his acceptance.

When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.

In a future where the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all 'tensions' - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed, overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day.