UK scientists find a cure for plague but their government, fearing its military biological potential, keeps the discovery secret until a scientist is duped into giving it to a foreign power
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness anti cold Unit Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well heele
A frustrated librarian Sellers in Swansea, Wales is torn between his wife Jean Markell and a glamorous married woman, Liz Zetterling, who wants to have an affair