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Delving into the history of English cinema, one film at a time. Hosted by Jack McInroy.
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The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) with Darren Richman
Anthony Newley stars as a nightclub compere who has just a few hours to raise £300 to pay a gambling debt or face the violent consequences in The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963). Writer and…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) with Tom Allen
Decades after the outbreak of the rage virus, the UK is quarantined from the rest of Europe and overrun with zombie-like Infected (and worse) in... 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026). Writer Alex…
Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Lizzy Stewart
The Dashwood sisters find their prospects of marriage suddenly diminished by their family loss of fortune, in Emma Thompson’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson won the Oscar for…
Edge of Tomorrow (2014) with Drew Taylor and Charles Hood
Tom Cruise is forced to live, die, repeat in the sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel All You Need Is Kill, the film was directed by Doug…
Night and the City (1950) with Foster Hirsch
Richard Widmark stars as Harry Fabian, a conman trying to rustle up a few quid to break into wrestling promotion, in Night and the City (1950). Based on Gerald Kersh’s novel of the London underworld,…
Love is the Devil (1998) with Christopher Frayling
Love is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon (1998) stars Derek Jacobi in the title role and Daniel Craig as George Dyer, Bacon’s lover and muse. Directed by John Maybury.Writer,…
Rembrandt (1936) with Christopher Frayling
Charles Laughton stars as Rembrandt (1936), in Alexander Korda’s biopic of the Dutch old master. Writer, historian and broadcaster Sir Christopher Frayling joins to discuss the film. Christopher’s…
Wicked: Part One (2024) with Tamiko Dooley
The Wicked Witch of the West gets to tell her side of the story in the Wizard of Oz prequel, Wicked (2024). Adapted from the hit stage musical, Wicked follows Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) and Glinda…
Naked (1993) with Alonso Ruizpalacios
Naked (1993) stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and articulate but vicious misfit, drifting around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of desperate and dispossessed…
Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987) with Adam Lowes
A married man starts an ‘affair’ with two schoolgirls in bawdy Thatcher-era comedy, Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987). Written by Andrea Dunbar based on her own play, directed by Alan Clarke, and starring…
Threads (1984) with Rebecca Strickson
At 9.30pm on 23rd September 1984, with the Cold War still ongoing, the BBC broadcast nuclear fallout drama Threads. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, the film went…
Kill List (2011) with Heather Parry
Hitmen Jay (Neil Maskell) and Gal (Michael Smiley) take on a new assignment, but what starts as an easy task soon unravels, revealing darker things beneath, in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List…
24 Hour Party People (2002) with Paul Wilson
Steve Coogan stars as Tony Wilson in Michael Winterbottom’s comedy music biopic about the rise and fall of Factory Records, 24 Hour Party People (2002). Writer and editor Paul Wilson (no relation)…
The Caretaker (1963) with Barney Farmer
Two brothers, Aston (Robert Shaw) and Mick (Alan Bates), take in a tramp (Donald Pleasence) and offer him the role of caretaker in their run down flat, in Harold Pinter’s The Caretaker (1963). Barney…
Brian and Charles (2022) with Babak Ganjei
Brian, a lonely inventor in rural Wales, builds himself a robot out of an old washing machine, but what happens when his companion wants to move on? Brian and Charles (2022) is written by and…
Alex Cox, Moviedrome at the BFI
Moviedrome premiered on BBC 2 in May 1988, on a mission to show cult films to counter ‘the abysmal drek that passes for entertainment in contemporary cinema’. The show was hosted by Alex Cox,…
Gosford Park (2001) with Nicolás Obregón
November 1932: A group of wealthy guests and their servants gather in an English country house for dinner, music, and, inevitably, murder, in Robert Altman’s upstairs-downstairs comedy mystery,…
The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) with Dean Puckett
The devil is unearthed in 18th Century England, inspiring the village youth to rape, murder and satanic worship, in one of the granddaddies of folk horror, The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971). Dean…
Gangster No. 1 (2000) with Gareth Simms
With his former boss about to be released from jail, an East End mobster reflects on a life of crime, obsession and betrayal, in Gangster No. 1 (2000). Malcolm McDowell and Paul Bettany both play the…
Heart of the Angel (1989) and Geri (1999) with Leo Leigh
It’s a double bill of Molly Dineen documentaries: Heart of the Angel (1989) about the inner workings of Angel tube station for BBC’s 40 Minutes strand, and Geri (1999), a portrait of Geri Halliwell…
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