Monday 11th October 10amSabotage (1937) Thriller. Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, John Loder. A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb.

Monday 11th October 3pmSea Devils (1953) Adventure. Director: Raoul Walsh. Stars Rock Hudson, Yvonne De Carlo, Maxwell Reed. Based on Victor Hugo’s ‘Toilers of the Sea’, the threat of Napoleonic invasion hangs heavy over Britain.

Monday 11th October 9pmKiss of Death (1947) Action, Crime.Director: Henry Hathaway. Stars: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark. A captured jewel thief refuses to aid assistant da to lighten his sentence. Learning his cohorts kept all the loot, giving none to his family, he makes a deal for his release which almost causes his death.

Tuesday 12th October 10.20amEnglish Without Tears (1944) Comedy. Director: Harold French. Stars Michael Wilding, Lilli Palmer, Margaret Rutherford. The daughter of the house falls in love with the butler after he is made a lieutenant.

Tuesday 12th October 2.05pmBowie – The Man Who Changed The World (2016) Documentary. Director: Sonia An-derson. Stars: David Bowie, Laurence Myers, Dana Gillespie, Paul Nicholas, Angie Bowie, Iggy Pop. David Bowie’s influence on popular culture changed the world of music, fashion and artistic integrity. Combining footage from interviews with the late great David Bowie and contributions from those who knew him personally, this documentary celebrates the illustrious life of one of the greatest artists.

Tuesday 12th October 9pmWater (1985) Comedy. Director: Dick Clement. Stars: Michael Caine, Billy Connolly. Farce about a British diplomat who finds his idyllic existance thrown into chaos when an American drilling company finds a huge source of natural mineral water there.

Wednesday 13th October 10.30amThe History of Mr.Polly (1949) Drama. Director: Anthony Pelissier. Stars John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins. Alfred reluctantly uses inherited money on two big ventures.

Wednesday 13th October 3.05pmThe Lost World (1960)Action, Adventure. Director: Irwin Allen Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John. A zoology professor leads a group on a South American expedition in search of a “Lost world.”

Wednesday 13th October 9.05pmDance with a Stranger (1985) Thriller. Director: Mike Newell. Stars: Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Lesley Manville, Ian Holm. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.

Thursday 14th October 7.50amSvengali (1954) Drama. Pretty young Trilby (Hilde-gard Neff) falls under the spell of Svengali, the evil hypnotist. Starring Donald Wolfit, Jeremy Brett and Harry Secombe.

Thursday 14th October 12.45pmMoss Rose (1947) Mystery/Detective. Director: Gregory Ratoff. Stars: Peggy Cummins, Vincent Price. A Chorus girl blackmails a wealthy man so she can make a break into high society.

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Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine and Robbie Coltrane star in this 1986 drama, directed by Neil Jordan. George (Bob Hoskins), after getting out of prison, begins looking for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for Simone (Cathy Tyson), a beau-tiful high-priced call girl, with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then real affection. Only Simone’s playing a dangerous game, and when George agrees to help her, they both end up in a huge amount of trouble with Mortwell (Sir Michael Caine), the local kingpin. Saturday 16th October 9pm.

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Thursday 14th October 6.45pmGirl on the Pier (1953) Crime. Directed by Lance Comfort. Stars Veronica Hurst, Ron Randell & Marjorie Rhodes. Rivalry between a Brighton crooner who has done time and his partner in crime, who is now being blackmailed

Friday 15th October 1.10pmLove is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) Drama, Romance. Director: Henry King. Stars: William Holden, Jen-nifer Jones. A Eurasian doctor and an American reporter fall in love in 1949 Hong Kong.

Friday 15th October 3.15pmCheaper by the dozen (1950) Comedy. Director: Walter Lang. Stars Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Crain & Betty Lynn”Cheaper By the Dozen”, based on the real-life story of the Gilbreth family, follows them from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair, New Jersey, and details the amusing anecdotes found in large families. Frank Gilbreth, Sr., was a pioneer in the field of motion study, and often used his family as guinea pigs (with amusing and sometimes embarrassing results). He resisted popular culture,railing against his daughters’ desires for bobbed hair and cosmetics.

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Join Caroline Munro at ‘The Cellar Club’. This weeks first film is the first sci fi venture by hammer The Four Sided Triangle (1953). Written and directed by Cellar Club favourite terence fisher and Mr.Kipling himself James Hayter.Staying with electronic machines our next offering is The Indestructible Man made in 1956 starring Lon Chaney jr as “Butch” a convicted criminal  sentencedto death on the electric chair but is brought back to life by some bungling scientists. Given a second chance,

Butch is intent on those reasonable for this ride down electric avenue.

Last up  is The Devils Men (1976). Three young people are kidnapped by a satanic cult headed by a  bad baron (Peter Cushing), Donald plesence is father roche who must battle with the minator cult to save the youngsters.….Films showing from 9pm on Friday 15th October.

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09:00 ABC Minors Song - We come Along, On Saturday Mornings! Join us as we sing The ABC minors song and get ready for this Saturdays show!

09.05 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957) Episode 1: Hawkeye’s Homecoming. Directed by Sidney Salkow. Stars John Hart Lon Chaney Jr & Michael Ansara. Hawkeye finds out that his brother has joined the British army and is now a ‘redcoat’.09.35 Phantom Creeps (1939) : Episode 2: Death Stalks the Highways.10.00 Pop Pirates (1984).1984. Directed by Joe Grossman and starring Roger Daltrey, George Sweeny and Joe Melia. A group’s rise is hampered when a member gets involved with video piracy.11.10 Dick Tracy (1937) Episode 6: The Stratosphere Adventure.

Stars: Ralph Byrd & Kay Hughes.11.35 Trail of the Royal Mounted (1940) Episode 2: The Perilous Trail.

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Saturday 16th October 2pmGuadalcanal Diary (1943) Action, Adventure, War. Director: Lewis Seiler. Stars: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel, Roy Roberts, Minor Watson, Ralph Byrd.Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the preparations, landing and initial campaign on Guadalcanal during WWII.

Saturday 16th October 3.50pmMan on a Tightrope (1953) Drama. Director: Elia Kazan. Stars: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Beatty, Alexander D’Arcy, Richard Boone, Pat Henning.1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom.His idea is to force his way across the guarded border using his entire circus.Three years in the making his idea is ready to be tested when he’s suddenly summoned to a Secret Police routine questioning about his circus’ program.

Sunday 17th October 12.20pmLease of Life (1954) Drama. Director: Charles Frend. Stars: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond, Reginald Beckwith, Robert Sandford, Alan Webb, Richard Wattis, Richard Leech, Jean Anderson. The vicar of a small village reconsiders his life after hearing he has limited time left.

Sunday 17th October 4.10pmMister 880 (1950) Comedy. Director: Edmund Goulding. Stars: Burt Lancaster, Edmund Gwenn, Dorothy McGuire, Millard Mitchell, Minor Watson, Howard St. John, Hugh Sanders, James Millican, George Adrian.The Secret Service of the US Treasury Department has been able to nab a number of high-powered and violent counterfeiters over the years, but case number 880, which has been open now for ten years. The Secret Service decides to bring in Los Angeles based Steve Buchanan to work on the case as a pair of fresh eyes. As Steve goes about his investigation of merchants who have been duped over those ten years to try to discover who Mister 880 really is.

Sunday 17th October 7pmMonkey Business (1952) Fantasy, Comedy, Science-Fiction.Director: Howard Hawks.Stars: Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Hugh Marlowe, Henri Letondal, Robert Cornthwaite, Larry Keating.Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager but soon his personal and professional life t is urned upside down..

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Documentary directed by Alan Byron.Stars: Marc Almond,Tony Blackburn,Tony Palmer, Goldie, Edwin Starr.

Keep on Burning tells the fascinating story of the world’s most enduring music movement : Northern Soul! Featuring interviews with key DJ’s, journalists and promoters, and filmed on location at the iconic Twisted Wheel and 100 Club. Sunday 17th October at 2.10pm

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul