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An Afternoon Remembering Dora Bryan on Talking Pictures TV Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk beginning Monday SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 14th October 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 An afternoon remembering Dora Bryan on Talking Pictures TV From 3.30pm on the afternoon of Saturday 17th October we bring you Paul O’Grady and Rita Tushingham as they celebrate the life and career of their dear friend Dora Bryan. Paul O’Grady was great friends with Dora, who was also very close to Rita Tushingham, having worked with her on A Taste of Honey. Both share memories and tell stories about her life, work, sad and happy times and everything in between. One of Britain’s most versatile performers, she was at home in revues, comedies and musicals and equally comfortable in dramatic roles. With her breezy and engaging personality, Dora Bryan had the gift of appealing to every audience. She won an Olivier Award in 1996, and was given an OBE in the same year. Mon 14th Oct 14:35 Tues 15th Oct 22:00 The Franchise Affair (1951) Girl With Green Eyes (1964) Crime Drama, directed by: Drama, directed by Desmond Lawrence Huntington Davis. Stars Peter Finch, Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray. Rita Tushingham, Lynn Redgrave. A young lawyer is called on in des- Kate Brady, an Irish farm girl, and peration by two women, mother and her best friend move to Dublin daughter, who live in a large isolated where they meet a worldly writer. house called The Franchise. Accused Although both are interested in of kidnapping and ill-treating a young him, it is Kate who pursues him. girl, they claim they are innocent. Mon 14th Oct 18:00 Wed 16th Oct 14:35 A Diary For Timothy (1945) Love On The Dole (1941) Director: Humphrey Jennings. Drama, directed by John Baxter. Impressionist portrait of wartime Stars: Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans Britain as presented to new-born & George Carney. In 1930’s Salford baby Timothy, with narration Harry Hardcastle and his sister Sally, written by E.M Forster and spoken by both in their different ways, fall Michael Redgrave. victim to poverty. Tues 15th Oct 19:15 Wed 16th Oct 19:30 and 02:50 Thurs 17th Oct and Sun 29th Oct 04:30 Jet Storm (1959) The Flying Scot (1957) Director: Director: Cy Endfield (as C. Crime drama, directed by: Compton Raker Endfield) Stars: Richard Atten- Bennett. Stars: Lee Patterson, borough, Stanley Baker, Hermione Kay Callard & Alan Gifford. After Baddeley. A father is out to avenge learning what’s being transported on his daughter after a hit and run. the Flying Scot, Ronnie Cowan plans Boarding the same plane as the killer, the biggest robbery of all time. he threatens to blow it up. Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 14th October 2019 continued FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Thurs 17th Oct 18:00 Fri 18th Oct 14:30 The Boys (1962) Operation Bullshine (1959) Crime drama, directed by Comedy, directed by: Gilbert Sidney J. Furie. Stars: Richard Todd, Gunn. Stars: Donald Sinden, Robert Morley, Dudley Sutton and Barbara Murray, Carole Lesley. Jess Conrad. When a nightwatchman The wife of an artillery is murdered, four young men are lieutenant secretly joins her put on trial. Followed at 20:30 by husband on the post, leading to The Boys Reunion at Elstree Studios. some funny complications. Fri 18th Oct 18:00 Thurs 17th Oct 22:00 and Tues 15th Oct 03:45 Cry, The Beloved Country (1951) A Weekend with Lulu (1961) Drama, directed by: Zoltan Korda. Comedy, directed by John Paddy Stars: Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Carstairs. Stars: Bob Monkhouse Charles Carson. A South African Leslie Phillips, Alfred Marks & minister searches for his missing Shirley Eaton. Three friends plan son, only to find his people living in a fun weekend but they have squalor and his son a criminal. surprise company tagging along. Sat 19th Oct Remembering Our Dora 15:35 Remembering Dora Bryan 15:55 Start of Dora Bryan afternoon: Mother Riley Meets The Vampire (PG) (1952) Horror comedy, in which a mysterious scientist known as ‘The Vampire’ comes to England to further his evil plans. Stars: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan. Directed by: John Gilling. 17:20 Desert Mice (PG) (1959) WWII Comedy which tells the story of an ENSA troupe of entertainers as they bring chaos to North Africa. Stars: Sid James, Dora Bryan, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier and Liz Fraser. Directed by: Michael Relph. A Taste Of Honey (1961) 19:00 OUR DORA with Paul O’Grady & Rita Tushingham. An hour long special programme during which Paul and Rita Award-winning drama about a teenage girl discuss A Taste of Honey and Rita reminisces about working whose life is dominated by her alcoholic with Dora on one of the most iconic films in the history of mother. Their tense relationship is further British entertainment. Followed by a screening of: strained when she falls pregnant. She finds 20:00 A Taste Of Honey (12) (1961) comfort in a new friend, but her mother To complete the tribute, one of Dora’s greatest films: still interferes. Stars: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. Director: Tony 22:00 Women of Twilight (12) (1952) Drama exposing the problems of unmarried mothers in the 1950’s. Richardson. Dora Bryan won a BAFTA for Stars: Rene Ray, Lois Maxwell, Laurence Harvey, Dora Bryan and Freda Best Actress and Rita Tushingham was Jackson. Director: Gordon Parry. Plus a showcase of unseen gems. named Most Promising Newcomer. Sun 20th Oct 18:45 Sun 20th Oct 22:00 and Thurs 24th Oct 14:30 The Naked Civil Servant (1975) Josephine and Men (1956) Biographical Drama, directed by: Comedy, directed by: Roy Boulting. Jack Gold. Stars: John Hurt, Stars: Glynis Johns, Jack Buchanan, Liz Gebhardt, Patricia Hodge. Donald Sinden, Peter Finch, William Based on the autobiography of Hartnell. The trouble with Josephine Quentin Crisp, who lived as an is that her over-sympathetic nature openly gay man in an intolerant leads her to switch from needful men era. Crisp’s vivacious, insightful to even more needful men... character makes the film both hilarious and poignant. Hurt won a BAFTA for Best Actor..
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