Talking Pictures TV www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk Highlights for week beginning SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 2nd September 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445

THIS SPORTING LIFE on Talking Pictures TV Richard Harris gave one of the-best performances of his career in this bleak, yet beautiful film as a brutally competitive rugby player, strongly supported by as his bitter, recently bereaved landlady. Both received Oscar nominations, with Roberts winning the BAFTA for Best British Actress. The compelling script by David Storey was also BAFTA nominated, while director Lindsay Anderson was nominated for the Golden Palm for his unflinching look at working-class life set in the harsh landscape of northern . Among the supporting cast is William Hartnell, who shortly afterwards began his role as The Doctor, having been spotted by Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert in This Sporting Life. The film also features Arthur Lowe, later to star in Dad’s Army as Captain Mainwaring, who worked on a further four films with Anderson. Lindsay Anderson said at the time the film should not be seen as “a North Country working class story”, although class frustrations do underlie how the characters behave. Rather it is about the impossibility of happiness and the inability of people to communicate with each other. Airs: Sat 7th Sept 19 22:05

Mon 2nd Sept 19 11:40 Wed 4th Sept 19 06:00 Oliver Twist (1948) The Loves of Joanna Godden Drama, directed by David Lean. (1947) Stars: John Howard Davies, Drama, directed by Charles Frend Alec Guinness, Robert Newton & & Robert Hamer. Stars: Googie Kay Walsh. An orphaned boy Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum joins a household of boys & Derek Bond. When her father dies trained to steal for their master. Joanna Godden decides to run his farm herself. Mon 2nd Sept 19 22:00 Terror of the Tongs (1961) Wed 4th Sept 19 22:00 Drama, directed by Anthony Bushell. Floods of Fear (1958) Stars: Geoffrey Toone, Christopher Lee Thriller, directed by Charles & Yvonne Monlaur. A British merchant Crichton. Stars Howard Keel, Anne sea captain sets out to crush the Red Heywood, Cyril Cusack & Harry H Dragon Tong; a society terrorizing Corbett. A man framed for murder Hong Kong. escapes from prison during a flood. Thurs 5th Sept 19 10.25 Tues 3rd Sept 19 12:00 Talking Pictures with Get Cracking (1943) Craig Douglas Comedy, directed by Marcel Varnel. Craig starred in the 1962 film Stars: George Formby, Dinah It’s Trad, Dad! and enjoyed chart Sheridan & Ronald Shiner. Formby success with many hits including joins the Home Guard and launches “Only Sixteen”, which outsold his own style of commando raid to Sam Cooke’s original, reaching steal a machine gun. Number 1 in 1959. In this exclusive interview, he shares memories of the Tues 3rd Sept 19 14:35 1960s music scene. The Woman in Question (1950) Thurs 5th Sept 19 14:30 Mystery, directed by Anthony Asquith. The Constant Husband (1955) Stars: and Jean Kent. Comedy, directed by Sidney Gilliat Police interview the five principle Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, suspects in the murder of Astra, (Jean Cecil Parker. A man wakes up on Kent), an enigmatic fortune teller. the Welsh coast with no memory, only to find he has several lovely homes and wives, who all want him back! Talking Pictures TV Highlights for week beginning www.talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 81 Monday 2nd September 2019 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 continued

Thurs 5th Sept 19 22:00 Sat 7th Sept 19 12:30 The Killing of Sister George (1968) Konga(1961) Drama, directed by Robert Aldrich Horror, directed by: John Lemont. Stars: , Susannah York, Stars: Michael Gough, Margo , Patricia Medina, Johns, Jess Conrad. A scientist Ronald Fraser. An aging actress experiments with a growth serum faces the loss of her popular tele- and creates Konga, a chimpanzee vision role. A much loved soap opera who grows to giant size and stalks star, she has to juggle a career crisis through a London, threatening Big with a complex lesbian relationship. Ben and the Houses of Parliament. Fri 6th Sept 19 12:00 Sat 7th Sept 19 16:20 Passage Home (1955) Father’s Doing Fine (1952) Drama, directed by Roy Ward Comedy, directed by: Henry Cass. Baker. Stars: , Diane Cilento Stars: Heather Thatcher, Diane Hart, and Anthony Steel. A young woman Virginia McKenna, Richard Atten- comes to regret her rescue from a borough. An impoverished difficult situation in South America. upper-class widowed mother and her four daughters contend with Fri 6th Sept 19 14:30 love affairs, a thieving butler, the The Dancing Years (1950) unpaid rent, and imminent motherhood in a single day! Musical drama, directed by Harold French. Stars: Dennis Price, Sat 7th Sept 19 22:05 Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton. Film This Sporting Life (1963) adaptation of ’s musical Drama, directed by: Lindsay romance set in Vienna in 1910 and a Anderson. Stars: Richard Harris, popular West End show during the Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel. A rising war. A band of army officers bid for rugby star senses the emptiness of a poor composer’s opera, but his life as his inner angst begins to a woman outbids them all... materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo Fri 6th Sept 19 19:15 his bereaved landlady in hopes of Nothing Barred (1961) finding a meaning in life. Comedy, directed by: Darcy Conyers. Stars: Brian Rix, Sun 8th Sept 19 16:10 Leo Franklyn, Naunton Wayne. April Love (1957) Lord Whitebait and his servant Drama, directed by Henry Levin. Spankforth hatch a plan to save Stars: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, his sinking fortunes. when his Dolores Michaels and Arthur daughter’s fiancé demands an O’Connell. A city boy moves to a expensive wedding. (AKA The Night We Sprang a Leak) Kentucky horse farm where he courts a neighbour and takes part Fri 6th Sept 19 22:00 in a special race day. Dracula Prince of Darkness (1966) Four English tourists holidaying in Sun 8th Sept 19 19:00 the Carpathians find themselves Fiddlers Three (1944) stranded in the mountains. When a Comedy, directed by Harry driverless carriage arrives they board Watt. Stars: Tommy Trinder, it, intending to travel to the nearest Frances Day, Sonnie Hale. village. However, the carriage instead A couple of sailors on shore takes them to a castle where they are leave decide to visit Stone- welcomed by the sinister manservant henge. Whilst there they meet a of Count Dracula... a young Wren. Lightning strikes and all three are transported back in time to ancient Rome.