Amazing things to do in London in September 2025

Ever wanted to have a nosy around some of London’s coolest private buildings? Open House London gives guests free access to architectural wonders that are not normally open to the public – from schools and offices to places of worship. It’s an often rare chance to explore iconic or just interesting buildings that make up the capital’s storied history, while the programme usually includes tons of workshops, exhibitions and more, as well as the usual tours. This year, the full programme will be announced on July 16, with bookings opening on August 20. Get practising your clicking now – these tickets go faster than Glastonbury.

David Bowie was quite possibly the most interesting man who ever lived, and boy did he know it. Although conceivably we’d have called this behaviour ‘hoarding’ if he hadn’t become enormously famous and successful, the man kept basically everything associated with his career – from before it was clear he’d have one, right through to his very last weeks.  Bowie had something like 90,000 individual items stashed away in a private archive in the US. And then he donated the whole thing to the V&A, where it’s kept in its own dedicated space inside the museum’s new V&A East Storehouse.  

The David Bowie Centre occupies a corner of the second floor and it does, in fact, include a small exhibition that gathers together some fascinating items. Of course there are clothes – the Earthling frock coat, a skimpy lil’ Ziggy number – but it’s the handwritten stuff that really fascinates, from a terse rejection letter from Apple Records to Post-it notes detailing unrealised projects, like an entire hitherto unknown stage project called The Spectator. 

But treating the Bowie Centre as merely an exhibition space would be missing the point. The real draw is that, via the wonders of the archive’s Order an Object service, you can now ask to look at basically any of the personal belongings of the actual David Bowie from this gigantic archive and they’ll just do it. So get down there and have a good old gawp at his Ziggy Stardust clogs. He left them there for you!

This is a bold opener for Indhu Rubasingham’s first season in charge at the National Theatre: first time playwright (though he’s got decent pedigree as an actor) Nima Taleghani offers up what sounds like a racously modern – and probably quite foul-mouthed – adaptation of Euripides’s shockingly violent Ancient Greek tragedy. Rubasingham herself will direct the show, which has a cast including James McArdle, Clare Perkins and Ukweli Roach.

Fashion lovers will lose their heads over the V&A’s big autumn 2025 exhibition, focusing as it does on the sartorial tastes of one of history’s most notable bonce droppers. Marie Antoinette Style will look at the ill-fated French queen’s enduring impact on fashion, design and culture, as well as ‘the origins and countless revivals of the style shaped by the most fashionable queen in history’. The V&A’s art collection features two portraits of Antoinette by Jean-François Janinet and François Hubert Drouais which we’d imagine will feature in the exhibition, while visitors can also expect to get up close to some serious couture pieces too; Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Moschino, Dior and the exhibition’s sponsor Manolo Blahnik have all created past collections inspired by the guillotined French Revolution monarch. Let them eat ’fits!

London is widely recognised as one of the design capitals of the world. Cementing this title is the annual Design Festival, a colourful and thought-provoking celebration of some of the world's best designers, who interrogate the boundaries of design through events, exhibitions and installations. 

This year, the fest will showcase how contemporary design intersects with technology, sustainability, and our shared cultural heritage. Phew. Look out for landmark projects including What Nelson Sees by Paul Cocksedge, which will let you see London from Nelson’s vantage point on top of his Trafalgar Square column and Beacon by Lee Broom, a site-specific sculpture at the entrance of the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, inspired by the area’s Brutalist architecture and the 1951 Festival of Britain that will illuminate when Big Ben strikes the hour across the river. Plus, there’ll be fairs within the fair, like Material Matters, which will take over a whole floor of Space House with designers, brands, and thinkers to explore the importance of materials in design and architecture.

As ever, the festival is spread across 11 Design Districts including spots like Chelsea College of Art and the V&A Museum, where the events will reflect the unique identity of each area.

Step into Elvis Evolution, a brand-new immersive trip through the life, music and legacy of The King. Using digital wizardry, live actors and a killer soundtrack, the show takes you from Elvis’s Tupelo beginnings to his Vegas heyday, all seen through the eyes of his childhood friend Sam Bell.

Suspicious minds can wander through cinematic scenes, sip some cocktails in the themed bar and watch the rags-to-riches story come alive around you. It’s now or never, book today.

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The late Peter Jones’ labyrinth of polychromatic tunnels is returning for another UK tour, stopping in Clapham Common this September for a 36th year. Never been to Colourscape? Self-described as ‘Europe’s most unusual festival’, you wander around its big inflatable neon maze to see what musicians you can find inside. You might happen upon a flautist, a classical guitarist or, new this year, a Balinese gamelan accompanied by a troupe of Indonesean dancers. Who knows!? Those kaleidoscopic innards are designed to surprise. 

Helping replace Canary Wharf’s corporate image with something fun and family-friendly, Canada Square Park has erected a big screen showing movies throughout the summer. For the final month, you can head down there on watch ‘A League of Their Own’ on September 4, ‘Champions’ on September 9, ‘Whip It’ on September 16 and ‘Invictus’ (September 23). It’s very much a BYO set-up, so bring your own blankets and snacks – though there’s a Waitrose nearby for any last-minute picnic needs.

Video games are the medium for Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. The young artist uses them to ‘imaginatively archive and empower Black Trans stories’ - this isn’t just point-and-shoot, slack-jawed gaming for the sake of it, this is one of contemporary society’s most important cultural forms being used to give voice to marginalised identities. 

Escape reality through maximum immersion and experience 42 masterpieces from 29 of the world’s most iconic artists, each reimagined beyond belief, through cutting-edge technology. Situated in Marble Arch, Frameless plays host to four unique galleries with hypnotic visuals and a dazzling score. Enjoy 90 minutes of surreal artwork from Bosch, Dalí and more for just £24!

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Anyone who’s ever stepped inside the Royal Albert Hall will understand that it can’t be filled with just any old music – it needs scale and drama. And every year it gets exactly that with the BBC Proms, one of London’s best-loved and most dazzling cultural festivals. This year, highlights include Florence + The Machine – Symphony of Lungs (Sep 11) where Florence Welch and conductor Jules Buckley lead celebrations of her BRIT Award-winning debut album, and of course, the Last Night at the Proms (Sep 14), which is apparently the world’s biggest classical music party. 

We're all ready to jump on a flight and get away to a bustling European city or gorgeous paradise beaches. But hello! Have you seen what the UK has to offer, and only within an hour or two of the big city? We've got a helluva lot to offer right here on our doorsteps and it can be reached so much quicker – and cheaper. Think incredible mixed scenery, gorgeous old villages, and hidden gems just waiting to be discovered. 

From seaside shacks to cosy cottages in forests, there’s no limit to the incredible places on our lovely little island. Whether you want to traipse on terrific beaches, explore lush stretches of the countryside or simply settle in someone else’s city, you’ll be amazed at what we have on British soil. Check out our roundup of the best Airbnbs near the capital and get exploring.

Respectable theatre? Not this month. Plied and Prejudice is Jane Austen gone off the rails — and we mean that in the best possible way. Think corsets, cocktails and chaotic costume changes as five actors tear through 20 roles with a wink, a wobble, and maybe a whisky or two. Expect scandal, silliness, and the wettest t-shirt contest Regency England never asked for. Whether you're Team Darcy or just here for the drama, this one's a riot.

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You don't see many festivals billing themselves as a blend of 'philosophy and music' but that's exactly what you get at HowTheLightGetsIn. Over 300 talks, discussions, debates, musical performances, comedy sets and documentary screenings are on the bill this year. Alain de Boton, Brian Cox, Ash Sarkar, Mary Trump, Cathy Newman, Alastair Campbell, Roger Penrose and John Gray are just some of the thinkers on the line-up, while performances come from the likes of Alex Farrow, The Orb, Lucy Beaumont, Deptford Northern Soul Club, Alexandra Harrow and Kadialy Kouyate on the entertainment bill. Your centrist dad will love it.

Charge the steins! You don’t have to travel all the way to Germany for a lederhosen-clad knees-up this Oktoberfest – and you don't even have to wait until October. Munich’s world-famous beer festival is very much on in London and starting this September; with big steins of beer, platters of excessively long wurst and loud oompah bands blowing brass like they don’t give a schnitzel. 

Whether you’re after a traditional take on the event or want to cut loose with some raucous table dancing, authentic Bavarian beers or east London craft IPAs, you can find the perfect Oktoberfest for you right here in London. Give yourself a warm willkommen at one of these London Oktoberfest events.  

Now if you’re after a Saturday with a bit more bite, Big Belly Bar & Comedy Club on the South Bank has you covered. For £29.95, you’ll get 90 minutes of bottomless drinks, wood-fired pizza to line your stomach, and a ticket to the Ding Dong Gong Show – a gloriously chaotic set-up where the crowd decides which comics stay standing and which get booted off stage. Equal parts boozy brunch and raucous comedy, you're guaranteed an afternoon of laughs, carbs and some very questionable judgment calls.

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To drink, or not to drink? The Sh!t-faced Shakespeare crew resprise their production of the Bard’s greatest play: as ever, with one member of the company smashed out of their faces. Is it going to be a ‘Hamlet’ for the ages? Absolutely not. Is it going to be a fun, short ‘Hamlet’ best watched over a few beers? Aye, there's the rub.

Yes, it’s a musical adaptation of the 2004 Adam Sandler/Drew romcom, which was a massive hit at the height of Sandlermania, and remains at least fairly well remembered. Its aggressively goofy plot about a louche marine biologist – with a posse of eccentric humans and animals – who falls for a woman who can’t remember the events of the previous day would seem to lend itself to the intrinsic silliness of the genre. Whatever the case, this world premiere run for 50 First Dates at the mid-size The Other Palace looks like it has the potential to be a big deal: American humourists David Rossmer and Steve Rosen have written the songs and script, while the big deal is director Casey Nicholaw, best known for The Book of Mormon, and suggesting this run is a tryout for Broadway.

Bringing together a wide spectrum of voices from various disciplines of alternative East and South-East Asian creativity, Margins United is back for its second year in the capital. Created by Eastern Margins, a platform for alternative Asian culture in the UK, the multi-venue festival will feature a full takeover of Exhibition in White City and an afterparty at Scala, King’s Cross. The first announcement centres around Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a trailblazer in both hyperpop and J-pop who previously collaborated with SOPHIE and Charli xcx. She's joined by DJ Jax Jones, LA’s alt-pop riser Emei and south London rapper Jianbo.

From Vivienne Westwood’s mud-inspired collection, to Acne Studio’s stained jeans, the autumn exhibition at the Barbican traces fashion’s obsession with all things dirty, grimy and messy. That’s right. Through the collections of more than 60 designers from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion will take a look at everything from models wrestling in mud at New York fashion week, to Hussein Chalayan’s dresses buried underground, and the newish trend, hailing from Copenhagen, ‘bogcore’. Containing pieces from Paco Rabane, Dilara Findikoglu, Maison Margiela, Issey Miyake and Alexander McQueen, Dirt’s lineup promises to give a comprehensive look at the grubbier side of clothing design, with enough to impress any fashion lover. 

Its been nine long years since Brick Lane last hosted its Curry Festival, but E1’s curry houses are once again coming together for this free festival taking over Brick Lane and nearby streets over three days this September, with the aim of reestablishing this East End neighbourhood as the curry capital of the UK. Visitors can expect street food stalls and chef demonstrations from the area’s many Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani restaurants, alongside a host of family-friendly fun including DJs, stilt walkers, magicians and live graffiti presentations, plus some opportunities to get stuck in yourself at henna and bangla dancing workshops. You can also get 20% off your bill at a host of participating restaurants by reserving a free ticket here. Very tasty indeed.

Although she turned in a fine adaptation of Lorca‘s The House of Bernarda Alba for the National Theatre a couple of years ago, it’s been an age since we’ve had a ‘proper’ play from the wonderful Alice Birch, whose Anatomy of a Suicide and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. were two of the great British stage works of the ’10s. There’s no secret what she’s been up to since: her screenwriting career has massively taken off, most notably with Lady Macbeth and the screen adaptation of Normal People, although she’s pretty damn busy generally. 

Anyway, long story short, Romans: A Novel is her first ‘original’ play in years, which is cause for celebration in and of itself. Plus it sounds like she’s lost none of her ambition: the somewhat cryptically titled play is a dissection of masculinity from the nineteeth century to the present and the way in which male narratives shape the world as we know. Precisely what it’ll involve is very much TBC, but it will star Andor’s Kyle Soller and will be directed by Sam Pritchard, Birch’s husband. 

Each year, Frieze Sculpture transforms Regent's Park, one of London's prettiest green spaces, into a massive free outdoor gallery. Only this year, things are looking more gloomy than sunny. This year's line up is curated by Fatoş Üstek, on the theme of ‘In the Shadows’, which means they'll be engage with the idea of darkness from many perspectives, whether that's inner darkness or the interplay between light and obscurity. 

London’s cultural institutions are having a love affair with the New Romantics this year. First there was Outlaws, the Fashion and Textile Museum’s exhibition on the subversive fashion trends of 1980s London. Then the Tate Modern announced a major retrospective on pioneering fashion maverick Leigh Bowery. Now it’s the Design Museum’s turn to direct its attention towards the most flamboyant subculture of its era, via this exhibition on the Blitz club, the iconic (and we really don’t use that word lightly) Covent Garden nightclub where New Romanticism was born in 1979. Forty years after it closed, the trailblazing club’s atmosphere will be recreated through a ‘sensory extravaganza’ incorporating music, film, art, graphic design and some very ostentatious outfits. This will include several items that have never been on public display before, while some of the scene’s key figures have been involved in the development of the exhibition. Time to liberally apply the kohl eyeliner, fish out your frilliest shirt and whack on some Spandau Ballet: the 80s are back, baby!

After four years of exciting performances, free music and dance festival Urban Elephant has grown into one of Elephant and Castle’s best loved cultural events, and for good reason. From classic Indian dance to Spanish flamenco, the weekend-long festival is a real showcase for the local area’s vibrant multicultural communities. 

Fusion band Grupo Lokito will be bringing Congolese grooves and Cuban rhythms to the headline slot at this year’s edition, alongside Ivorian drumming and dancers from Kaagô, the IRIE! Dance Theatre Youth Company performing West African folktale ‘Anansi and the Pot of Wisdom’ through African and Caribbean dance, and a celebration of Colombia and Latin America from longstanding local dance group Yuruparí Grupo Folclórico. 

Spectators can also expect whacky circus performances, cabaret and even some participatory fun in the form of a Latin American aerobics classes to kick off the festival, while local businesses will be running a variety of food and drink offers to keep you fuelled for a day of dancing.

This 1947 musical from My Fair Lady writers Lerner & Loewe has faded out of fashion in recent years, presumably largely because its premise of a couple of American tourists stumbling across a magical Scottish village that only appears every couple of hundred years is actually pretty patronising to the Scottish. That’s presumably why top Scottish playwright Rona Munro has been brought in to update the book of the first major UK revival since 1988, which will see Drew McOnie direct his in augural production as Open Air Theatre artistic director. The exact nature of the update is TBC, but it appears that lost-in-the-Highlands American protagonists Tommy and Jeff have been changed from game hunting tourists to crashed WW2 fighter pilots.

This month is your last chance to take your dino-loving kid to Jurassic World: The Experience. Staged at NEON, a new venue just outside Battersea Power Station, the experience is roughly 45 minutes long and begins with boarding a ‘ferry’ to get to Isla Nublar, home to Jurassic World. Expect gigantic animatronic herbivores, ‘baby dinosaur’ petting, velociraptor feeding and a face-to-face T-rex encounter.  

Peter Doig is one of the greatest living painters, an artist whose approach to hazy, memory-drenched figuration has had an enormous impact on the visual landscape of today. For his show at the Serpentine, he’s going well beyond the canvas, filling the gallery with speaker systems to create a ‘multi-sensory environment’ and explore the impact of music on his work. 

The Bush Theatre under the reign of outgoing artistic director Lynette Linton has rarely been about celebrity names – on the whole she’s tended to deal with them seperately in her busy freelance career. But with her time in west London coming to an end, she can afford to allow herself something a little fancy. Not Your Superwoman is a new play by Emma Dennis-Edwards – created by her and Linton – and it will star Letitia Wright – aka Black Panther herself – as Erica, daughter to Golda Rosheuvel’s Joyce. In the aftermath of the death of Joyce’s mother, the two find themselves paralysed about what to do with their lives next. 

The 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup is already smashing records before a single match has even been played. A record 220,000 tickets have been sold to date – the fastest-selling tournament ever. The much-anticipated competition will take place between August to September next year across 32 matches, with the final taking place in London at the iconic Twickenham Stadium. There’s even more reason to be excited: England are one of the favourites to win, and we all know that England’s female sporting teams have a greater track record of being victorious. So, fingers crossed, the England women’s rugby team get their own Euro ’22 moment. 

Some of London’s most illustrious institutions – the National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Chelsea and Chelsea Physic Garden – join forces for the seventh edition of this history bonanza. A line-up of 80 events explores history from every angle, with author talks, guided walks, and family-friendly fun. 2025's highlights include two talks from ‘You're Dead To Me’ host Greg Jenner (Sep 27) a walking tour of Chelsea's punk past (Sep 24), a session creating herbal plague remedies in Chelsea Physic Garden (Sep 27) and a discussion of WWII memoirs with journalist Emily Maitlis (Sep 28). 

Katie Mitchell’s second play for the David Byrne-era Royal Court threatens makes last year’s non-linear poetry adaptation Bluets look positively commerical. A collaboration between the legendary avant-garde director, playwright Nina Segal and sound artist Melanie Wilson, Cow | Deer – apparently you’re not allowed to say it ‘Cow-slash-deer’ – it’s a wordless work about a dsy in the life of a cow and a deer that aims to further the eco-minded bent of Mitchell’s work by ‘decentring’ humans from a work. Truly, who can say what this will mean or look like, but presumaby it’s about as out-there a thing as you’ll see on a stage this year. Actors will apparently be involved, though it’s unclear precisely what they’ll be doing.

If you're besotted with bivalves, this one's for you. Bentley's Oyster Bar is once again hosting the London Oyster Championships, which brings together chefs, seafood experts, and foodie types for a day of enjoyable rivalry, refreshments and live music. First up is the speed shucking competition: entries are first come, first served as competitors battle to shell oysters against the clock. Then there's the best dressed competitions, where chefs come up with novel oyster toppings in front of a panel of judges including Prue Leith.

Your ticket gets you the chance to scoff unlimited native rock oysters, plus two drinks, a goodie bag, and entry to the event's after party. 

Ibsen’s 1888 play about a woman named Ellida at the heart of a love triangle between her safe husband Edward and a dangerous ex-lover referred to only as The Stranger gets staged relatively frequently: the last major London production was at the Donmar back in 2017. But it rarely gets the full West End celebrity Hedda Gabler/A Doll’s House/The Master Builder treatment – you’re probably lookig at a late-’70s production at the Roundhouse starring Vanessa Redgrave for its last and really only really big outing in this country.

Until now. In a year otherwise dominated by musicals and Shakespeare plays, the Bridge’s big autumn show is a new version of Ibsen’s play but Aussie auteur Simon Stone, that will mark the professional stage debut of Swedish screen star Alicia Vikander as Ellida, joined by big name Brit Andrew Lincoln as Edward (his first show in front of an audience in 16 years, although he did the Old Vic’s A Christmas Carol to a webcam and an empty theatre in 2020).

It’s hard to know exactly what to expect: Stone’s adaptations are modern, radical and often rather blunt – his Yerma for the Young Vic was explosively good; his Phaedra for the National Theatre was a bit silly; much of his prolific output simply hasn’t been seen in this country. Whatever the case, he’s a good get for the Bridge and if this production could probaby go either way, then that’s part of the Stone magic. 

Kerry James Marshall is an artist with a singular vision. He has become arguably the most important living American painter over the past few decades, with an ultra-distinctive body of work that celebrates the Black figure in an otherwise very ‘Western’ painting tradition. This big, ambitious show at the Royal Academy will be a joyful celebration of his lush, colourful approach to painting, and artist’s largest ever exhibition outside of the US. 

A short kids’ adaptation aside, Rufus Norris was the first artistic director of the National Theatre to not programme a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at all: it’s been 15 years since Rory Kinnear took on the role for Norris’s predecessor Nicholas Hytner. But new NT boss Indhu Rubasingham isn’t messing around, and her deputy Robert Hastie’s production is her first piece of programming in the Lyttelton. Hiran Abeysekera – best known for his Olivier-winning turn in the Hastie-directed Life of Pi – will take on the mantle of Shakespeare’s Great Dane. We don’t know a huge amount about the production beyond that, though the initial publicity images suggest a certain amount of irreverence, while the 7.15pm start times suggest it’ll be long, but maybe a bit clippier than the average Hamlet.

Forget the same old, same old. The annual Future Of Food Festival, hosted by the culinary hotspots of Regent Street and St James’s, has got events galore that are all about the newest, most exciting, and most sustainable bits of the restaurant industry. This year, there’ll be exclusive dining experiences from chefs including Alex Dilling and Rafael Cagali, masterclasses from sustainable booze brands including Sapling Spirits, and On-Street Feasts where you can dine outdoors, enjoying dishes from four different restaurants at the same time. 

Even if you've never set foot in Greenwich, you'll probably be familiar with the grand stone facade of its Old Royal Naval College. This 18th century building is a much-used movie location that pops up endlessly in period dramas and fantasy flicks, including Bridgerton, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Star Wars and Indiana Jones. Now, it's having a bit of fun with its cinematic history by inviting members of the public to turn up in costumes from some of the famous films, in a mammoth Guiness World Record attempt to host the largest gathering of people dressed as TV and film characters. So if you're a closet cosplay fan, the leading light of Halloween fancy dress parties, or just an all-round silly billy who loves putting on a novelty outfit, this one's for you. No need to book: just turn up on the day at 2pm, and have a ball.

There'll be giant photo props on hand including a Bridgerton throne, Cruella's car, and a Batmobile, plus film-themed refreshments. But beware, you can't just throw on a cape and rock up: officials will check you're wearing recognisable elements from specific movie characters before you can join in the fun. 

Don’t miss the final run of Stereophonic’s West End shows. The musical is a lightly fictionalised account of the recording of the Fleetwood Mac’s mega-selling Rumours album, and while not every detail is the same, many are identical, from the cities it was recorded in (Sausalito then LA) to the gender, nationality and internal-relationship makeup of the band, to details like female members ‘Holly’ (aka Christine McVie) and ‘Diana’ (aka Stevie Nicks) moving out out the studio accommodation they were sharing with the band’s menfolk in favour of their own condominiums. 

London’s festival scene caters to just about every kind of music fan, and that of course includes metalheads. After debuting in 2022, this three-day black metal bonanza returns to the O2 Academy Islington for its fourth edition this September. Curated by London-based metal label Cult of Parthenope, its line-up promises to showcase ‘some of the finest, rarest and most transcendental’ bands in the genre. The line-up includes Ritual Death, Bewitched, Kall, Necrophobic, Splendidula, Dark Sonority, Alkhemia, Negative Plane, Shardana, Blood Countess, The Kovenant.

If you thought the National Gallery answered every question that could possibly be asked about what came after the impressionists in their huge blockbuster ‘After Impressionism’ show in 2023, you thought wrong. Because they’re coming back for another go with ‘Radical Harmony’, which will feature the work of the neo-impressionists, including pointilist masters Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. It’s enough to drive you dotty.

Walthamstow's Big Penny Social has only been on the scene for three years, but it's made a name for itself as a fun, down-to-earth spot for locals to hang out and party. Now, it's throwing a mammoth birthday bash that'll be its biggest knees up to date, with a festival feel. Big Penny's Biggest Ever Party will unfold across six different spaces, including new arts venue Big Penny Studio. There'll be a mammoth line-up of over 100 performers, including wrestlers, circus acts, a full orchestra and more, with tons of opportunities to mingle, chat and dance.  

It’s been 16 years since the last major London production of Joe Orton’s breakthrough play Entertaining Mr Sloane, and over a decade since the last major London Orton revival full stop (a 2012 West End production of What the Butler Saw). To a large extent that’s simply a result of the bleak ’60s farceur’s tragically slim body of work, but it’s high time he came around again and new Young Vic artistic director Nadia Fall helms this revival of Mr Sloane as the opening production of her first season at the theatre. What if anything it will tell us about the tenor of her programming at the Vic remains to be seen, but certainly we’ll find out if she can do funny. Tamzin Outhwaite and Daniel Cerqueira lead the cast as a pair of siblings who both fall for their charismatic lodger Mr Sloane, much to the misgivings of their frail father.