'Honestly, mam, it's all a load of rubbish. I mean, I read me horoscope and things like that, for a joke... but this.'
Adie and Astral share a taste for literature and freedom, but Zena has long since set the jam just the way she likes it.
Dogs are like their owners - grey-hounds are nasty, staffords are for fighting. You can't blame the dogs - it's nature.
'The way to get on, son, is to accept the kind of jobs you have to grit your teeth to do.' Martin enjoys moving furniture, but not bodies.
'Most fellers, if they'd seen a mate go under that press, they'd never go back.' Can Brocky?
'Two million years wasted making leather bags. For what? For what? There's more to life.' Harry Ravitz suddenly sees the world in a new light.
Another chance to see David Cregan's first television play "That Time of Life" with John Neville and Peter Bayliss 'There does come a time, I know, when age knows less than youth. I don't think I've reached it.' (from Birmingham)
'Look, I want Maureen. Right. Fair enough. If you want a deal we'll do one.' Cyril wants Ken's wife if the price is right.
Jackie is leaving the Army. While waiting for the car she re-encounters Corporal Harvey, her previous lover.
'Waiting for pages half my life' - but this time the printer is drunk and the editor has a deadline to meet.
A winter's day out is a treat for all, but it isn' quite what Uncle Alec wanted.
Chance has missed the match, but the girl at his sister's wedding might make up for it.
Janet wanted her pupils to break the windows, smash the tannoys, and paint the school red. Why wouldn't they?
"Sling me in here? Nobody slings the King of the Kop anywhere. Not even the pigs." In a police special incidents room, a young soccer supporter meets his hero.
Maple and Derry behave just like their parents and teatime at their place gives Adam a shock.
The strike is over, but in a small Cornish boatyard, bitterness remains.
The right to work... The words and actions of the people fighting to keep open the steelworks at Shelton Bar, North Staffordshire. Adapted from the theatre production at Stoke-on-Trent's Victoria Theatre, and performed in the studio by…
Alfy is 30 and on the dole. So what does he want with a stuffed tern, a shooting stick, a Harris Tweed suit and a shotgun?
Suzanne thought Peter the ideal husband, and theirs the ideal marriage. Then she looked in his wardrobe ...
His Gran wants a car, his girl friend wants a ring. But it was Tommy who stole the turkeys, and he wants something quite different.
There's Helen (top). She's on her own in the mornings after Frankie (middle) goes to work. But young Vinnie (bottom) from next door comes calling...
In a small Irish village any visitor causes a stir - especially one who plays the violin and talks of foreign places.
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinctions. Where does he draw the line?
Les's sister is going out and his parents won't be back for a while. What will happen when he's finally left alone with his girl friend?
'It was the age of excitement, vim an' vigour an' pep, when Champagne Charlie was everyone's name!' Can the Night Hoppers bring it all back at the Caf6 Elegant?
The First Division Club has dropped Paul from the team. That means he's on the scrapheap at the age of 18.
Mrs Jordan left her son behind in Jamaica. He's finally arrived in Birmingham, after 12 years...
Rosie lectures at the Poly, Suki runs a boutique and John rarely does anything. They all live together, and for visitors like Kevin, they can be terrifying.
Dolly is bedridden and her daughter and the housekeeper treat her like a child. Bill, however, knows what she's really like.
'Here we all are then, having a jolly good time!' It's Gaz, Bonehead and Paul, three big lads, working on a motorway, cooped up, all day long, in a very small hut.
'In 14 minutes, 20 seconds we are going to be privileged to contact living creatures from another world, another galaxy even ...'
John believes his faith has the power to cure. When he returns to help on his father's farm, he finds it can also kill.
'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis...
'I don't know what muck you're trying to rake now... all I know is, I was his mother and nothing can change that.'
If you ought to finish that bathroom, but NATO goes on Nuclear Alert, and curious people appear at the bottom of your garden - you dig a hole to hide in, don't you?
Jack Flea finds himself living with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist.
Don likes to keep the memory of his childhood safe in cold storage, far away in Dorset. His mother's death forces him to return home.
When I was young, only seventeen, I walked the hills and pathways green, I knew not of life; of care had none And the boy who loved me was tender, and young.
Blackpool usually means sun and sand, and a ride on the big dipper; but Ricky and Michelle are working. Dave is hard at work too - getting in on their act.
Mr Purvis wants comprehensive coverage for his car, but he's at the mercy of the Insurance Salesman - who seems reluctant to let him have it.
'I want to be so famous that I'm a household name all over the world.' In her dreams Sue finds a way to sing on Top of the Pops.
'Think you're all big with your muscles. I watch you walking around. Think you're the cat's whiskers.' Harker has to keep up appearances down in the boathouse.
Two ageing bachelors meet on festive occasions to exchange presents and insults. Their Christmas celebrations are interrupted by an unexpected guest.
Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : 'Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage'. The Bedworth Hog faces tough competition.
'He said he was only wanting a holiday romance. Someone to throw stones in the sea with, someone to look at the moon with...'
As sisters, Gladys and Iris never agree about anything - but on one point they're clear: their old mam can't hear a word of their arguments, can she?
When Mr Coleman was alive he found it hard to talk to his son. Since his death he finds it strangely easier.
Patricia's children have flown long since; so Brenda's baby, Winston, revives long forgotten feelings.
All these nostalgia-freaks sittin' round playin' Buddy Holly and old Everlys ... you can 'ave too much of it.' Angie dreams of a change in her lifestyle - but is Steve the right alternative?
And a warm welcome to a very cold valley! Charlton Athletic are playing Notts County and things are livening up in the Press Box.
'This is not exactly a mental hospital, is it? I mean, it's not like a lunatic asylum. They don't have anybody raving mad in here.' Carmel has a lot to learn about her new surroundings.
Bobby Watson is about to launch his new trawler and wants to make it an occasion Irene will remember.
'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not many.' Brian is enthusiastic about his new job, but Thomas has seen it all before.
Two extraordinary days in the life of young Beatles-fan Kevin - as he drifts in space between yesterday and today.