Acting
Based on the novel of the same name by William David Owen.
We follow a nationalist who is looking for a motorbike - and for his own country. He believes that the society in North Wales is indifferent towards the future of the nation and the language and that motorbikes are sometimes smarter than people.
The Hughes family have just started to get their lives back together in the wake of the devastating rape and murder of their youngest daughter, Catrin (Manon Prysor). But the nightmares are reawakened when the killer is released from prison only three years into his sentence. Incensed by this travesty of justice, Catrin’s brother, Alun (Dafydd Emyr), vows to reap his own retribution – much to the horror of his elder sister, Rhiannon (Nia Medi). In a desperate bid to put a stop to Alun’s plan she finds herself alone in a remote ruined mansion in the dead of night, face to face with her sister’s killer.
Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.
A year in the life of an 8 year old girl called Begw, who lives in a cottage on the quarry-mining uplands in Caernarfonshire, North Wales, at the turn of the century.
Maureen has her hands full at home and can't take care of her father William, who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. Her brothers - Alun, an alcoholic trumpet player, and John, an insensitive businessman - don't really want to help. William, a lifelong socialist, feels angry and resentful towards the British government which has abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy a council house in the booming 80s, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care. Isolated in old age, Williams secretly decides to put into action a plan to get back at the system.
A young girl is found brutally murdered in a small seaside town. The police are baffled; the town's inhabitants are panic-stricken. A serial killer is on the loose, and as yet more horrific murders take place, the search for clues becomes a desperate race against time. A tense psychological thriller with a chilling climax, this television movie introduced the charismatic, dedicated Welsh detective Noel Bain (Philip Madoc), a man with a passion for defending the innocent and an infallible instinct which the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Also starring Hywel Bennett as Doctor Lewis, the feature-length drama won a BAFTA Cymru award and initiated the highly acclaimed, darkly authentic crime series which ran between 1997 and 2004.
Jac and Rhys are looking forward to enjoying a weekend of playing sport, and getting to see Grandma. There is little chance of fun in the company of adults - or is there?
