Colin Welland

Director Ken Loach received international acclaim for this enormously moving tale of a lonely working-class Yorkshire boy, who turns from a life of comic books and shoplifting when he finds a baby kestrel and decides to raise and train it.

When one of his informants is murdered, Detective Inspector Jack Regan is drawn into a deadly political game. He is soon a marked man and, after being framed, is suspended from duty.

The story of James Bond spans more than 30 years, spawning 14 books and even more movies. But even more fascinating is the man behind the phenomenon, who drew on his own true-life adventures to create James Bond: spy-turned-author Ian Fleming. Loosely based on the adventures of the creator of secret agent 007, The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming follows Fleming (Jason Connery) from his privileged upbringing with an aristocratic mother, Lady Evelyn (Patricia Hodge), through his humble beginnings at Reuter's News Service, to his meteoric rise to the highest ranks of the British Secret Service. Although he flirted wildly with both danger and beautiful women, Fleming's relationship with his mother was strained and his romance with the one great love of his life was fiery. Starring the son of the cinema's first James Bond, The Secret Life Of Ian Fleming probes the private life of a very public spy.