Alison Steadman

Sam is ruthless, abrasive, and her willingness to play along with the boys means she’s climbed to the top of the ladder at sportswear company Fly. As COO, it’s a view she’s comfortable with. Maya, the newly hired HR Director, has a very different perspective. She and Sam clash from their very first meeting, and when Maya begins to unpick the toxic culture of the workplace, dark secrets begin to emerge. Soon both she and Sam are asking questions about a young female employee, Amy, who died in mysterious circumstances after a company party some years ago.

A quiet housewife and charwoman is abused and exploited by just about everybody, including her daughter-in-law.

In a town outside London, a dishonest American businessman intimidates a local nightclub owner who doesn't want to sell his property.

Just as British jockey Bob Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others beforehim, submits to the full, painful treatments of multiple injections and radiation, suffering as much or more from the cure as from the illness.

A posthumous request by their mutual best friend sends two twenty-something women on a very deliberate road trip across Britain to scatter his ashes.