Jane Howell (Director)
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Works
Surrender To Everest
In 1971, American Norman Dyhrenfurth led an expedition of 30 climbers from 13 different countries, including Don Whillans, Dougal Haston, Naomi Uemura, Pierre Mazeaud, Michel Vaucher, and others. This expedition aimed to simultaneously climb the southwest face and the direct west ridge. During the ascent, Indian climber Harsh Vardhan Bahuguna perished at Camp 3 in a storm. The expedition, already suffering from organizational problems, was severely tested after his death. The Americans decided, unilaterally, to abandon the west ridge. The Europeans, who had spent days equipping the route, were left out and felt relegated to the roles of route setters and porters. Frenchman Pierre Mazeaud, Swiss climbers Michel and Yvette Vaucher, and Italian Carlo Mauri then left the expedition. The Americans continued their ascent of the southwest face up to 8,350 meters before giving up.
Release Date1971-10-31
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Screen Two
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Release Date1985-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
ScreenPlay
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.
Release Date1986-07-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Churchill's People
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Release Date1974-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Centre Play
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Release Date1973-07-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. After encountering numerous problems trying to produce the series, Messina eventually pitched the idea to the BBC’s departmental heads and the series was greenlighted. The series as a whole received generally negative reviews from critics.
Release Date1978-12-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count6
Second City Firsts
A series of plays from Birmingham by new writers.
Release Date1973-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Ladies in Charge
Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift. After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.
Release Date1986-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Class Act
Class Act is a British comedy-drama series produced by Verity Lambert, and starring Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe. The series ran for two seasons of seven episodes each. Broadcast on ITV1, the first premiered on 7 April 1994, until 19 May. The second ran from 7 September to 19 October 1995. Desperate times call for desperate measures when aristocratic Kate Swift's rich husband disappears and she is forced to give up her champagne lifestyle.
Release Date1994-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Tales Out of School
Tales Out of School is a British anthology of television plays by David Leland: Birth of a Nation, Flying Into the Wind, R.H.I.N.O.: Really Here in Name Only, and Made in Britain.
Release Date1983-06-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Devil's Crown
The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. It was broadcast in thirteen 55-minute episodes between 30 April and 23 July 1978. Henry Plantagenet (latterly Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order. He cuts a deal with King Stephen in which Stephen will name him his heir, excluding his sons Eustace and William in exchange for a fragile truce. Stephen's sudden death elevates Henry to the throne. He may have been King of England, but the bulk of the Angevin Empire was in France, and it was this that Henry regarded as the Jewel in his Crown, maintained through a series of political marriages and complex allegiances. Henry pays homage to Louis VII, King of the Franks, for these lands, but it is clear that Henry is the shrewder and more ambitious of the two kings, having married Louis' ex-wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Release Date1978-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
The Tragedy of Richard III
Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward has him imprisoned in the Tower of London; killers in Richard's pay then drown Clarence in a barrel of wine. When news of Clarence's death reaches the King, the subsequent grief and remorse bring about his death. Richard is made Lord Protector, with power to rule England while his nephew (now King Edward V) is still a minor. Before the young king's coronation he has his two nephews conveyed to the Tower, ostensibly for their safekeeping. Richard's accomplice, the Duke of Buckingham, then declares the two boys illegitimate and offers Richard the crown, which after a show of reticence he accepts. After Richard's coronation, he and Buckingham have a falling-out over whether or not to assassinate the two children.
Release Date1983-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Shoot the Revolution
During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?
Release Date1990-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Amongst Barbarians
Amongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking. As they both face the death penalty, their relatives travel to Penang to come to their rescue. However, they soon find out that there is nothing they can do to save the boys' lives. In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their racism becomes more than apparent. The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real barbarians are. Wall's play is based on a true story and featured David Jason's first straight acting role on TV.
Release Date1990-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Henry VI Part 1
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Release Date1983-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
R.H.I.N.O.; Really Here in Name Only
An isolated, overweight girl with a penchant for shoplifting, gets pushed from pillar to post as the authorities struggle to know what to do with her.
Release Date1983-07-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Drums Along Balmoral Drive
'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
Release Date1986-08-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Winter's Tale
The jealous King Leontes falsely accuse his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and she dies. Leontes exiles his newborn daughter Perdita, who is raised by shepherds for sixteen years and falls in love with the son of Leontes' friend. When Perdita returns home, a statue of Hermione "comes to life", and everyone is reconciled.
Release Date1981-02-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Henry VI Part 2
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Release Date1983-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Return to Blood River
Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.
Release Date1994-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Shooting the Chandelier
During the closing days of the Second World War, a young Czechoslovakian woman, Blanka, is caught between ideologies of the Soviet regime. Part of BBC2 Play of the Week.
Release Date1977-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Waiting at the Field Gate
Lightning Gallat is the village slaughterer and a man of distinction. Where does he draw the line?
Release Date1975-04-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Titus Andronicus
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives. The newly-dead Roman Emperor's two sons, Saturninus and Bassianus, are competing for their father's title. According to Roman custom, Titus sacrifices Tamora's eldest son to the Gods; having the deciding vote, he also chooses Saturninus as Emperor.
Release Date1985-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
Henry VI Part 3
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Release Date1983-01-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Light
In a Cheshire village, Jack, an electrician, is rewiring the house where a dissident Russian professor is staying. From mutual dislike and suspicion they move towards tolerance and eventually mutual respect.
Release Date1979-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Mary Rose
A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or appearance and her once infant son is now older than she is…
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Dybbuk
A young bride is possessed by a dybbuk, a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person, on the eve of her wedding.
Release Date1980-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Choice of Evils
Cardinal Volponi tries to save his old friend, a priest-turned-militant communist, from being executed by the Nazis alongside 334 other hostages but struggles to reason with either the Vatican, the Nazis or his friend.
Release Date1977-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Water-Baby
Charles Kingsley experiences turmoil.
Release Date1975-08-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mirror, Mirror
A TV production crew member becomes distracted while polishing a mirror. He turns his attention to the watching TV cameras, which now appear to have personalities of their own.
Release Date1976-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector