A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.
In Glasgow, Scotland, while a mysterious pandemic begins to spread around the world, Susan, a brilliant epidemiologist, falls in love with Michael, a skillful cook.
An overly romantic librarian believes she's found the one after just three dates, but her friends are more concerned with political turmoil, which leads to a right wing coup.
Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?
The Afternoon Play is a BBC One anthology of individual plays. Five 5-episode seasons were produced between 2003 and 2008.
