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Highlights: Week beginning Monday 3rd December 2018

Monday 3rd December 2018 – 08:30 THE HIRELING (1973) Director: Alan Bridges Starring: Robert Shaw, Sarah Miles, Peter Egan and Elizabeth Sellars. A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.

Monday 3rd December 2018 – 21:00 (1950) Director: Starring: Jean Simmons, , James Donald, and Herbert Lom. A young bride believes her husband has been killed. After a suitable period of mourning, she re-marries, but when her "dead" husband comes back, problems begin…

Tuesday 4th December 2018 – 10:00 I’LL BE SEEING YOU (1944) Director: William Dieterle Starring: Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, Shirley Temple and Spring Byington. Zachary Morgan and Mary Marshall meet on a train and immediately sense a mutual attraction. However, both Zach and Mary are shouldering significant secrets.

Tuesday 4th December 2018 – 18:00 (1954) Director: Starring: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen and Alexander Knox. A three-year-old orphan is adopted by a German couple shortly after World War II. On his tenth birthday, he is told that his mother, a Yugoslav refugee, is alive and wants him back. The case must be decided in court, with whom the boy will be better off.

th We dnesday 5 December 2018 – 10:50 SPELLBOUND (1945) Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Gregory Peck, Ingrid Bergman, Michael Chekhov and Rhonda Fleming. In this classic Hitchcock thriller, a psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Wednesday 5th December 2018 – 13:00 GREAT WEST END THEATRES (2012) *New Series to Talking Pictures TV* Director: Marc Sinden Hosted by: Donald Sinden. Donald Sinden heads backstage in London's finest theatres, and reveals the history, traditions and colourful characters associated with them. He begins at the Ambassadors Theatre, where the production of Mousetrap began its West End run in 1952.

Wednesday 5th December 2018 – 17:30 each weeknight COLONEL MARCH OF SCOTLAND YARD (TV Series 1956) Director: Bernard Knowles – Ep1: The Sorcerer. Starring: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Gerard Heinz and Phil Brown. Colonel March investigates unusual cases in this classic 1950s TV series.

Thursday 6th December 2018 – 18:05 LAUGHTER IN PARADISE (1951) Director: Mario Zampi Starring: Alastair Sim, George Cole, Fay Compton and Guy Middleton. When a playful millionaire dies, he leaves a surprise for his loved ones -- in order to claim his fortune, they must complete assignments that will help them become better people.

Thursday 6th December 2018 – 21:00 EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE ONE (1970) Director: Jim Clark Starring: Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell, Garry Miller and Shelley Berman. Teddy Brown works for a large advertising company and is given the seemingly impossible task of selling frozen porridge.

Friday 7th December 2018 – 18:10 (1949) Director: Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Sidney Cole Starring: , , Susan Shaw, Peter Finch and Valerie Hobson. A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

Saturday 8th December 2018 – 12:05 (1942) Director: Basil Dearden and Starring: Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Croft, Barry Morse and Peter Ustinov. William Potts, a bumbling teacher turns out to be the exact double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and obtain secret plans.

Saturday 8th December 2018 – 13:40 THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME (1955) Director: Basil Dearden Starring: George Baker, Richard Attenborough, Bill Owen and Virginia McKenna. After WW2, veteran George Hoskins persuades his skipper, Bill Randall, to use their old naval ship for a small-time smuggling operation. But things soon escalate to bigger plans.

Saturday 8th December 2018 – 15:40 THE SIEGE OF PINCHGUT (1959) Director: Harry Watt Starring: Aldo Ray, Heather Sears, Victor Maddern, Neil McCallum & Barbara Mullen. Matt Kirk escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence, but when he and his three accomplices encounter a mechanical fault on their boat, they end up on Pinchgut Island…

Saturday 8th December 2018 – 20:00 THE L SHAPED ROOM (1962) Director: Bryan Forbes Starring: Leslie Caron, Brock Peters, Tom Bell and Patricia Phoenix. In an Academy Award nominated performance, Jane, a pregnant French girl, moves to a seedy boarding house.

Sunday 9th December 2018 – 15:00 BOTTOMS UP (1960) Director: Mario Zampi Starring: Jimmy Edwards, Arthur Howard, Martita Hunt and Melvyn Hayes. Wild students rebel against a cane-wielding headmaster at a British school for boys.

Sunday 9th December 2018 – 16:45 THE MAGNET (1950) Director: Charles Frend Starring: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards and Thora Hird. A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy which gets him into all sorts of trouble.

Sunday 9th December 2018 – 22:10 THE BRINKS JOB (1978) Director: William Friedkin Starring: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates and Gena Rowlands. Crime story based on the real armed robbery of the Brink's Building in Boston,

Massachusetts, on January 17th, 1950.