Shooting the Past (BBC, 1999) (540*960p, soft English subtitles)

Shooting the Past (BBC, 1999) (540*960p, soft English subtitles)

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A fight to save millions of memories. A picture library is threatened with closure – but the staff won't give up. Stephen Poliakoff drama starring Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan.

Contains some strong language.
Deals with suicide

E01 When an American property developer arrives in London, he is perplexed at the warm welcome he is given by the employees of a vast photographic archive. It seems there has been a misunderstanding, and he tells the head of the collection that the ten million pictures will have to be sold or destroyed.

E02 Curator Marilyn has to sack the library's resident expert, Oswald, and begin the task of finding a buyer for the whole collection. After several rejections, she meets the head of an advertising agency who is interested. Oswald, meanwhile, has been investigating the American property developer Anderson.

E03 Concluding Stephen Poliakoff's drama serial about a picture library threatened by a property development. Following a strange telephone call in the middle of the night, Marilyn rushes to Oswald's house to find that he has taken an overdose. Looking through Oswald's possessions, she discovers key clues to Anderson's past.

First broadcast: 10-24 January 1999    
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