What’s On
Thursday, 1st July
The Ladykillers (1955)
- Thursday at 12.10am on Sky Cinema Greats HD
An old lady takes in a sinister lodger, who with his four friends commits a robbery. When she finds out, they plot to kill her, but are hoist with their own petards.
Ship of Fools (1965)
- Thursday at 12.10am on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
In 1933, a German liner leaves Vera Cruz for Bremerhaven with a mixed bag of passengers.
Discovering Film
Discovering: Richard Attenborough
- Thursday at 1am on Sky Arts HD
The life and career of the English actor and film-maker, who starred in Brighton Rock, 10 Rillington Place, The Great Escape and Jurassic Park and won an Oscar for directing Gandhi.
Richard E Grant’s Hotel Secrets (2012–14)
- Thursday at 8am on Sky Documentaries HD
The actor heads to the Harlequin Suite at the Dorchester in London, where Elizabeth Taylor once had a pink marbled bathroom installed.
No, My Darling Daughter (1961)
- Thursday at 8.10am on Talking Pictures TV
Chaos ensues when a tycoon’s daughter is thought to be eloping with her American boyfriend.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
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- Thursday at 9.30am on Sky Arts HD
A neurotic woman with a fear of not being punctual is tormented by her husband on a troubled trip to America.
Back-Room Boy (1942)
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- Thursday at 10.10am on Talking Pictures TV
A timid meteorologist is sent to an Orkney lighthouse and unmasks a bunch of spies.
Africa’s Magnificent Beasts
- Thursday at 12pm on Eden HD
Documentary providing an insight into how Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, and the subsequent film adaptation, sparked new interest in nature and conservation in the 1960s.
Man on the Run (1949)
- Thursday at 1pm on London Live
A deserter becomes innocently involved in a jewel robbery.
Angel Face (1952)
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- Thursday at 3pm on GREAT! movies classic
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- Thursday at 4pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
A demented girl murders her father and stepmother, involving her chauffeur, whom she finally kills, and commits suicide.
Ivanhoe (1982)
- Thursday at 4.30pm on GREAT! movies action
A noble 12th-century knight returns home to England after fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard the Lionheart, only to find the country under the domination of the king’s tyrannical brother.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–88)
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- Thursday at 5.30pm on Sky Arts HD
A man on a train journey is convinced that the passenger seated opposite him is a bully from his schooldays.
Reunion at Fairborough (1985)
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- Thursday at 9pm on GREAT! movies classic
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- Thursday at 10pm on GREAT! movies classic Plus 1
American World War II veterans travel to Britain for a reunion at their old base. Once there one former pilot rekindles an old romance.
Cinema screenings
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Two officers sent on a document raid in Libya during World War II become poor soldiers because one suspects the other of an affair with his wife. -
Adventures of a Gaiety girl who married a lord.