James Cairncross

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner — A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution by

The Fool — A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in

Doctor Who: The Krotons — The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery b

Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror — The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789.

Lay Down Your Arms — Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SAT