John Bird Movies

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in...

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...