Highlights: Week beginning Monday 4th February 2019

Monday 4th February 2019 – 14:35 DAVY (1958) Director: Michael Relph Starring: Harry Secombe, Ron Randell, George Relph, Susan Shaw and Bill Owen. The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family or strike out on his own?

Monday 4th February 2019 – 21:00 NO TREES IN THE STREET (1959) Director: J Lee Thompson Starring: Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom, Ronald Howard and Melvyn Hayes. Surrounded by new 1950s East End high-rise flats, a London detective thinks back to how different things were in the late 1930s and relates the story of young Hetty who desperately tries to stop her younger brother descending into crime.

Tuesday 5th February 2019 – 14:35 THE LONG ARM (1956) Director: Charles Frend Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Glyn Houston and Sam Kydd. An elusive burglar robs a safe and leaves innocent victims in his wake. Police detective Tom Halliday is assigned the case as he meticulously following up every possible lead.

Tuesday 5th February 2019 – 18:00 (1960) Director: Starring: , , , and . When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to show to a visiting scientist…

th Tuesday 5 February 2019 – 21:00 A PLACE TO GO (1963) Director: Basil Dearden Starring: , Michael Sarne, Bernard Lee, Doris Hare and Barbara Ferris. With slums giving way to high-rise flats, life in Bethnal Green is changing for the Flints. Dad may consider quitting the docks and their daughter wants a new home with her husband and expected baby, but son Ricky is dissatisfied and eager to get away.

Wednesday 6th February 2019 – 08:20 WANTED FOR MURDER (1946) Director: Lawrence Huntington Starring: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver and Bonar Colleano. The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession.

Wednesday 6th February 2019 – 18:00 SIX-FIVE SPECIAL (1958) Director: Alfred Shaughnessy Starring: Lonnie Donegan, Dickie Valentine, Jim Dale, Cleo Laine, Johnny Dankworth, Petula Clark, Russ Hamilton, The John Barry Seven, Joan Regan and many more. A young singer on a train bound for London is delighted to find herself among a group of famous musicians and performers, on their way to make a television show. Big screen Version of the famous BBC pop music programme, Six-Five Special.

Thursday 7th February 2019 – 10:20 CAGE OF GOLD (1950) Director: Basil Dearden Starring: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Herbert Lom and Bernard Lee. A young woman who is led to believe her husband has been killed, remarries and begins a new life, but then she receives an unexpected visitor…

Thursday 7th February 2019 – 21:00 SOME PEOPLE (1962) Director: Clive Donner Starring: Kenneth More, Ray Brooks, Anneke Wills, Harry H Corbett & Angela Douglas. The story of three teenaged tearaways Johnnie, Bill and Bert who find themselves at odds with society. Following a brush with the law they have a chance meeting with a choirmaster who offers them a way of making good.

Friday 8th February 2019 – 08:05 APRIL LOVE (1957) Director: Henry Levin Starring: Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels and Arthur O’Connell. A wayward young man sent to live on his relatives' farm decides to mend his ways when he falls in love with the neighbours’ daughter.

Friday 8th February 2019 – 11:20 ARMCHAIR THEATRE: A BIT OF A LIFT (1973) Director: Dennis Vance Starring: Ronald Fraser, Ann Beach, Donald Churchill and Denise Shaw. Alec, Frank and Penelope were strangers when they came to the hotel. But a bedroom brings them all together.

Friday 8th February 2019 – 21:00 RING OF SPIES (1964) Director: Robert Tronson Starring: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack and . Henry Houghton is a navy clerk who loathes his work and feels that his life lacks lustre. So when a secret agent asks him to steal military secrets in exchange for a hefty fee he agrees.

Saturday 9th February 2019 – 19:55 THE SAINT: THE FICTION MAKERS (1968) Director: Roy Ward Baker Starring: Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms, Justine Lord, Kenneth J Warren and Philip Locke. The Saint is asked to act as a bodyguard to the best-selling adventure author Amos Klein, a young woman who uses a male pen-name. Cinema version.

Saturday 9th February 2019 – 22:05 THE MEDUSA TOUCH (1978) Director: Jack Gold Starring: Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews and Alan Badel. Novelist John Morlar is haunted by the belief that he can, through the power of telekinesis, cause fatal disasters to occur.

Sunday 10th February 2019 – 13:15 PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (1948) Director: William Dieterie Starring: Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore and Lillian Gish. Eben Adams is a struggling artist who chances upon Jennie, a young girl who proves to be the muse he has been waiting for.

Sunday 10th February 2019 – 17:20 A BOY, A GIRL AND A BIKE (1949) Director: Ralph Smart Starring: John McCallum, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Patrick Holt and Thora Hird. Sam is the captain of the Yorkshire cycling society and happily rides alongside his fiancée and fellow member, Susie, but love, theft and deception causes havoc within the club.

Sunday 10th February 2019 – 19:10 THE CARD (1952) Director: Ronald Neame Starring: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson, Petula Clark and Joan Hickson. A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to rise through the ranks in business and social standing. With equal parts cheek, charm and ambition, he soon become known as ‘The Card,’ but has he met his match when it comes to women?

Sunday 10th February 2019 – 22:10 ARMCHAIR THEATRE: Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee (1971) Director: Mike Vardy Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Donal McCann, Anna Cropper and Ann Firbank. Ruth is a divorcee who takes Roger, a nervous, shy young man, as a lodger in her house. Naturally people talk, but they have no idea of what is really going on…