A heavily overworked nurse is being stalked by a mysterious figure during her night shift in the nursing home. While trying to tend to everyone’s needs, she also has to deal with her stalker and pushes herself to extremes.

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

When the Emperor of China finds out about the beautiful music of the nightingale, he wishes to have the nightingale by his side. That is, until a new rival, a mechanical bird, shows up and outstages the nightingale. But, when the Emperor faces death, he will soon realize that the nightingale is the one who truly cares for him in his time of need.

The programme includes The Damned’s set-smashing performance on The Old Grey Whistle Test and the Sex Pistols' anarchic trip on the Thames. It also features powerful live performances from Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Gang of Four, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Tubeway Army, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Soft Cell, The Selecter, Joy Division and the Au Pairs. In addition, there are gems from The New York Dolls, The Fall, Blondie, Pete Shelley, The Police, Devo, X-Ray Spex, Klaus Nomi, Laurie Anderson and many more.

故事发生在十九世纪的英国，当时的社会阶级分化严重，穷人生了病根本就得不到有效的医治，只能选择默默等死。南丁格尔（杰奎琳·史密斯JaclynSmith饰）是衔着金汤匙出生的千金大小姐，一次偶然之中，她目睹了贫民医院里的种种惨状，大为震惊。回家之后，她开始学习护理，立志要成为一名护士。南丁格尔的这一举动震惊了当时的社会，因为那个时候，护士是下等人才会从事的职业，而女性则更是不被允许在外面抛头露面的。战争爆发了，南丁格尔决定去前线救治伤员，这一次，她的决定意外的没有遭到质疑和反对，甚至还得到了人民的支持和簇拥。