Season 5 · Episode 5 — Leaving
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.
Season 5 episodes
E1In September 1982, Pauline and Ray Williams were woken with the news that their 19-year-old son John had been found dead. They discovered h…
E2It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip…
E3Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the W…
E42 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolb…
E5A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different…
E6In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later, he suffers…
E7'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon a…
E8This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championshi…
E9Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart hi…
E10A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their…
E11Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things be…
E12An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.