Ten Minute Tales

There's a lady who lives in a snow covered cottage, freezing, stuck in her own winteryGroundhog Day and shunned as an oddity by everyone.It takes a small, quiet man with a mouth full of astoundinglyugly teeth to save her from a wintery fate.

Some lovers are kept apart by feuds, religion, race and war. Some are kept apart by large dogs with small brains and small dogs with big barks. It's a British beach in December and the only people daft enough to be out are dog walkers.

A young couple, a new house and a baby on the way. Stress levels rise, and after a seriously silly row, Joe decides to pedal his woes away. Gemma wants to make amends and gives Joe a call on his mobile...

Paul lives on his BlackBerry. He's hardly ever off it, either closing deals or making them. All his wife Clare and his daughter Faye want is for Paul to turn the wretched thing off and make some time for his family...

Mr. Jellaby (Bill Nighy) spends his days spotting living statues, ticking them off in his book. He spots the hypnotic Galatea and falls in love. He packs his sandwiches and comes to watch her in the shopping precinct every day for hours.

It's just before Christmas, and at one of London's busiest rail stations, people are hurrying to and from trains, needing to be in the right place for the celebrations. Amongst them is Dog, trying to latch on to someone, anyone. Dog is alone…

Three soldiers slip through the desert at night, searching for a downed helicopter. They find the crash site but no pilot. His marker directs them towards a building surrounded by enemy patrols. Inside are a man, a woman, and a new-born baby…

A young soldier, who has been away at war, returns to find his lover has been killed in the Blitz, but their child has survived the blast. As he and the child grow older, we see that her ghostly presence has not left their home...

A man wakes from a warm dream of domestic bliss but there's something wrong with his ears. What he sees and what he hears don't match up. And when they do, they're the wrong sounds. His world is out of joint. Peter Capaldi stars.

Set in East London, a child is born in unpromising circumstances to a girl who simply can't cope and walks away. The baby is picked up by an unlikely modern day angel...

It's Christmas morning and Liam sets off to visit his daughter. His Christmas spirit is quickly eroded by the rudeness of those he encounters, but a moment of sharing restores his faith in the holiday.