In the 1980s Manchester United was the footballing byword for underachievement.
The club had struggled to rediscover
Four film versions of W. Somerset Maugham are brought together & introduced by the man himself: ' The Facts of Life' features a young tennis player who escapes from his domineering partner & absconds to Monaco; ' The Alien Corn' features Dirk Bogarde playing a man with the ambition to be a top pianist, but he is rejected by music scholars; ' The Kite' stars George Cole as a man with an obsession for kites & little time for his wife; ' The Colonel's Lady' revolves around a stuffy colonel's search for the man his wife has been writing passionate poems about.