ROCK CITY to show on Talking Pictures TVThis fascinating time capsule documentary features vintage film footage from the hey-day of the London rock’n’roll scene. Including several perfor-mances by The Rolling Stones, as well as Otis Redding, Try A Little Tender-ness, Cream, Sunshine of Your Love at the Albert Hall and Jimi Hendrix in a rare Saville Theatre clip of Hey Joe. Cat Stevens, Pink Floyd and Ike & Tina Turner also make notable appearances and the Faces finish a fabulous trip down this musical memory lane. Also featured are glimpses into the ‘scene’ in London at the time, hippie culture, long hair and loud guitars! This cult film by Peter Clifton offers a rare glimpse into the world of rock music in the early seventies. Rock City airs on Friday 3rd May 19 at 22:00

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Monday 29th April 2019

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Monday 29th April 19 15:10Cheaper By The Dozen (1950)Comedy. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain & Betty Lynn. Based on a true story. Follow Frank Gilbreth and his wife Lillian as they raise their 12 children.

Monday 29th April 19 18:00Woman In A Dressing Gown (1957)Anthony Quayle & Sylvia Syms star in this British drama about marital strife. Fed up with his wife’s (Yvonne Mitchell) frumpy appearance, long-married Jim begins an affair.

Tuesday 30th April 19 10:05The Golden Salamander (1950)Drama. Directed by Ronald Neame. Stars Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimee & Herbert Lom. A British archaeologist is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye.

Tuesday 30th April 19 22:00The Looking Glass War (1970)Action Drama. Directed by Frank Pierson. Stars: Christopher Jones, Pia Degermark, Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins. Adapted from the John le Carré novel about a British spy, who sends a Polish defector to East Germany, to verify missile sites.

Wednesday 1st May 19 11:55They Who Dare (1954)War Drama. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Stars Dirk Bogarde & Denholm Elliott. In Greece during the war British comman-does and patriots are ordered to destroy two strategic Ger-man airfields.

Wednesday 1st May 19 22:00Oklahoma Crude (1973)Comedy Western, Directed by Stanley Kramer. Starring George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills. In 1913, in Oklahoma, Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, stubbornly drills for oil despite pressure to sell her land.

Thursday 2nd May 19 12:20Silent Dust (1949)Drama. Director: Lance Comfort. Stars Stephen Murray, Beatrice Campbell & George Woodbridge. A wealthy blind man is deter-mined to build a cricket pavil-ion as a memorial to his dead veteran son.

Thursday 2nd May 19 15:10Spring In Park LaneComedy, directed by Herbert Wilcox. Starring Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding. Joshua Howard’s niece suspects the new footman is not what he makes out to be.

Thursday 2nd May 19 22:00Billy Liar (1963)Comedy, directed by John Schlesinger. Starring Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wil-fred Pickles. A lazy, irresponsible young clerk in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family.

Friday 3rd May 19 15:10 also on at Thursday 2nd May 19 04:20Boys In Brown (1949)Drama. Directed by Montgomery Tully. Stars Richard Attenborough, Jack Warner & Dirk Bogarde. The governor of a borstal institution tries to reform a group of juvenile delinquents.

Friday 3rd May 19 18:00The Villain (1979)Comedy Western, directed by Hal Needham. Starring Kirk Douglas, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ann-Margret. A bank robber makes a deal with a corrupt banker to avoid execution in exchange for a dirty assignment.

Friday 3rd May 19 22:00Rock City (1973)Music Documentary. Director: Peter Clifton. Cast includes: Cat Stevens, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Mick Jagger, Otis Redding, Eric Burdon, Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart, Pete Townshend, Ike Turner, Roger Wa-ters, Charlie Watts and more. Vintage film footage from the hey-day of the London rock’n’roll scene. Interviews with rock artists, hippies and flower children.

Saturday 4th May 19 17:00It Always Rains On Sunday (1947)Drama. Director: Robert Hamer. Stars Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner & Susan Shaw. Rose wants to escape the drudgery of her daily life when an old lover escapes from prison.

Saturday 4th May 19 21:00The Passenger (1975)Thriller. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni. Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre. A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he’s been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms dealer acquaintance. “I used to be somebody else...but I traded him in.”

Saturday 4th May 19 23:30Gumshoe (1971)Comedy Drama. Directed by Stephen Frears. Stars Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw & Frank Finlay. A comedian fulfils his love for detective novelist Dashiell Hammett by putting an ad in the paper as a private eye.

Sunday 5th May 19 12:55New documentary ‘The Immortal Orson Welles’ Commemorating the birthday of Orson Welles. This intimate documentary contrasts the romanticised maverick figure with the man behind the enigma, and celebrates his remarkable contributions to film history. With recollections from actor Norman Eshley (star of Welles’ film ‘Immortal Story’), filmmaker Henry Jagloma and Orson’s assistant Dorian Bond, the film offers a rare insight into the world of this fascinating man.

Airs on 5th of May 19 at 12:55 and 6th of May 19 at 16:30 to celebrate the birthday of Orson Welles, born on 6th May, 1915.

Sunday 5th May 19 19:00Above Us the Waves (1954)Director: Ralph Thomas. Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden. War Drama about an attack by British submarines on the German battleship “Tirpitz” in a Norwegian fjord during World War II. Based on two British attacks on the Tirpitz by commando frogmen; adapted from the book Above Us the Waves by C. E. T. Warren & James Benson.

Sunday 5th May 19 21:00Armchair Theatre: Still Life (1970)Directed by Dennis Vance. Written by Ronald Duncan. Starring Margaret Rawlings, Michael Goodliffe, Rachel Herbert. A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter’s life.

Sunday 5th May 19 22:00The Deep (1977)Adventure Thriller. Director: Peter Yates. Writer: Peter Benchley. Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Dick Anthony Williams. In Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvert-ently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.

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