What’s On
Friday, 16th April
A Case for Dr Morelle (1957)
The Blackmailer (1957, Ep 5)
- Friday at 1am on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Dr Morelle probes the dealings of a mysterious Spanish count.
Nothing But the Night (1973)
- Friday at 1.20am on Talking Pictures TV
The trustees of an orphanage die off mysteriously, and it seems that the orphans themselves are responsible.
Tunes of Glory (1960)
- Friday at 2.55am on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 3.55am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
The new disciplinarian CO of a Highland regiment crosses swords with his lax, hard-drinking predecessor.
Hot Enough for June (1964)
- Friday at 3.05am on London Live
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- Friday at 3.40pm on London Live
A penniless writer is sent to Czechoslovakia on a goodwill mission and finds himself being used as a spy.
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
- Friday at 4am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
An impecunious heir eliminates eight D’Ascoynes who stand between him and the family fortune.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
- Friday at 4.30am on Sky Arts HD
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- Friday at 1.30pm on Sky Arts HD
A man on a train journey is convinced that the passenger seated opposite him is a bully from his schooldays.
Father Goose (1964)
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- Friday at 6am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
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- Friday at 2.25pm on Sky Cinema Greats HD
During World War II, a South Sea wanderer is compelled by the Australian navy to act as sky observer on a small island, where he finds himself in charge of six refugee schoolchildren and their schoolmistress.
A Case for Dr Morelle (1957)
Voice in the Night (1957, Ep 6)
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- Friday at 6am on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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- Friday at 1pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra
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- Friday at 8pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Dr Morelle investigates death threats made to an elderly spinster.
Gandhi (1982)
- Friday at 7.05am on Sky Cinema Select HD
The life of the young Indian advocate who became a revolutionary, a saint and a martyr.
The Great Lover (1949)
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- Friday at 7.10am on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 8.10am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
On a transatlantic liner, a timid scoutmaster catches a strangler.
The Saint (1962–69)
- Friday at 7.15am on ITV4 HD
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- Friday at 8.15am on ITV4 Plus 1
Templar is summoned by the local doctor to a Welsh village where residents fear a nearby research laboratory.
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple (1984–92)
- Friday at 9am on Alibi HD
A young bride moves into a country manor and long-repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Billy the Kid (1941)
- Friday at 9.45am on TCM Movies HD
- Friday at 10.45am on TCM Movies Plus 1
A young Western outlaw is relentlessly pursued by Sheriff Pat Garrett.
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
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- Friday at 9.50am on Talking Pictures TV
An elaborate screen treatment of Bernard Shaw’s comedy about Caesar’s years in Alexandria.
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
- Friday at 11am on Sony Movies Action
In an officers’ mess in India in the 1890s, a cadet is accused of assault on a lady, but the real culprit is a paranoiac who has taken to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
The Pickwick Papers (1952)
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- Friday at 12.20pm on Talking Pictures TV
Various adventures of the Pickwick Club culminate in Mrs Bardell’s suit for breach of promise.
Assassin for Hire (1951)
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- Friday at 1pm on London Live
A professional killer is trapped into admitting to a murder he didn’t do.
Rebecca (1940)
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- Friday at 2.25pm on Talking Pictures TV
The naïve young second wife of a Cornish landowner is haunted by the image of his glamorous first wife, Rebecca.
What a Carve Up! (1961)
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- Friday at 3pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 4pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
A madman fakes his own death in order to murder his relatives.
Fortune Is a Woman (1957)
[as She Played With Fire]
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- Friday at 4.50pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 5.50pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
An insurance assessor investigates a fire, finds a murder, marries the victim’s widow and is blackmailed…
Where There’s a Will (1955)
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- Friday at 6.30pm on Talking Pictures TV
A London family inherits a dilapidated Devon farm and makes a go of it.
Our Man in Havana (1959)
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- Friday at 6.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 7.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
A British vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana allows himself to be recruited as a spy, and wishes he hadn’t.
The Innocents (1961)
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- Friday at 9pm on Talking Pictures TV
In Victorian times, a spinster governess in a lonely house finds her young charges possessed by evil demons of servants now dead.
Triple Cross (1966)
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- Friday at 9pm on Sony Movies Classic
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- Friday at 10pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
A small-time crook imprisoned on Jersey at the start of World War II offers to spy for the Nazis but reports to the English.
Closing the Ring (2007)
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- Friday at 10pm on London Live
An old woman consumed by grief following the death of her husband receives a message from a stranger who claims to have found a ring belonging to her that was lost decades before.
Plenty (1985)
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- Friday at 11pm on Talking Pictures TV
After World War II, the career of a neurotic society woman has parallels with the problems of western Europe.
Ship of Fools (1965)
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- Friday at 11.30pm on Sony Movies Classic
In 1933, a German liner leaves Vera Cruz for Bremerhaven with a mixed bag of passengers.