All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Michael Palin, ranked

In a dystopian, polluted, over consumerist, hyper-bureaucratic alternative present day, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently daydreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a damsel in distress. Sam discovers the mistake when he discovers the wrong bank account had been debited for the arrest and visits Buttle’s widow to give her the refund where he encounters the upstairs neighbour Jill Layton, and is astonished to discover that she resembles the woman from his dreams.

London, 1814. Rebecca Sharp, daughter of an art teacher and a French dancer, is a strong-willed, cunning, moneyless young woman determined to make her way in society. After leaving school, Becky stays with Amelia Sedley, who is a good-natured, simple-minded young girl, of a wealthy London family.

The year is 1953, and the Soviet Union is still in the grasp of the paranoia of Premier and General Secretary of the Communist Party Joseph Stalin. The concert has to be hurriedly repeated and recorded, but the pianist, Maria Yudina, hides a note to Stalin in the sleeve of the record, saying he has ruined the country.