What’s On

Saturday, 23^rd January

Bristow (1999)

The Power of the Press

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• Saturday at 4.30am on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Bristow’s crusade for better conditions for cleaning ladies bites the dust.

Tomorrow We Live (1943)

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• Saturday at 4.35am on Sony Movies Classic
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• Saturday at 5.35am on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1

A British agent in German-occupied France suspects a local woman of conspiring with the Nazis.

Little Women (1949)

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• Saturday at 7.15am on TCM Movies HD
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• Saturday at 8.15am on TCM Movies Plus 1

The growing-up of four sisters in pre-Civil War America. 1949 remake.

Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (2012–14)

VIP (2012, S1, Ep 4)

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• Saturday at 9am on Sky Atlantic HD
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• Saturday at 10am on Sky Atlantic Plus 1

The actor heads to the Harlequin Suite at the Dorchester in London, where Elizabeth Taylor once had a pink marbled bathroom installed.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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• Saturday at 9.15am on Sky Cinema Select

British POWs in Burma are employed by the Japanese to build a bridge; meanwhile British agents seek to destroy it.

East of Sudan (1964)

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• Saturday at 11.45am on Sony Movies Classic
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• Saturday at 12.45pm on Sony Movies Classic
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• Saturday at 12.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1
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• Saturday at 1.45pm on Sony Movies Classic Plus 1

A trooper, a governess and others escape downriver from one of General Gordon’s outposts.

The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)

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• Saturday at 12.45pm on Film4 HD

A spy is murdered; the man who has befriended her is suspected, but eludes the police until a chase across Scotland produces the real villains. Eager-to-please remake of the 1935 original.

The Girl in the Picture (1957)

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• Saturday at 1.25pm on Talking Pictures TV

George Keefe’s policeman brother was murdered four years ago and the killer is still on the loose.

May to December

No Other Love

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• Saturday at 2.35pm on Forces TV

Alec moves into Zoe’s flat with a framed picture of his idol Perry Mason.

Agatha Christie’s Marple (2004–13)

Murder Is Easy (2008, S4, Ep 2)

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• Saturday at 2.50pm on ITV3 HD

A beautiful American woman arrives in a peaceful village, which is then plagued by a spate of seemingly accidental deaths.

May to December

My Funny Valentine

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• Saturday at 3.10pm on Forces TV

Alec and Zoe find themselves separated when Valentine’s Day arrives.

The Seventh Survivor (1942)

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• Saturday at 8.05pm on Talking Pictures TV

Survivors of a shipwreck gather in a lighthouse and discover that one of them is a Nazi agent.