Name: Death at Broadcasting House
Released: 2026-01-14
Duration: 4707

Schedule for British Screen Classics

Death at Broadcasting House

When actor Sidney Parsons is murdered while taking part in a radio broadcast play, Detective-Inspector Gregory is called in to investigate and is quick to discover that the victim had many enemies amongst his fellow players in the cast. When his deductions lead him into a blind alley he decides to reconstruct the crime in the hope that this well-tried device will lead him to the killer. All the technical and human resources of Broadcasting House are brought to his aid.

2026-01-14 12:43:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 14:01:27 +0000 UTC(1h18m)

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On the Night of the Fire

Kobling is a barber who steals ¬¨¬£100 to pay off his wife's debt. When the police trace the stolen notes to him, and someone is killed, Kobling goes into his hiding and sends his wife and child away. Will he be able to elude the police?

2026-01-14 14:01:27 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 15:40:47 +0000 UTC(1h39m)

Death at Broadcasting House

2026-01-14 12:43:00 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 14:01:27 +0000 UTC(1h18m)

Dance Hall

Georgie, Carole, Eve and Mary work together in a factory and the four friends go regularly to the local "palais de danse". The story of the joys and sorrows of their young lives is told through their experiences at the dance hall.

2026-01-14 11:16:02 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 12:43:00 +0000 UTC(1h26m)

Kitchen

"The Kitchen" is adapted from Arnold Wesker's celebrated play. The action takes place in the kitchen of a restaurant, where a polyglot staff strive to cope with a superhuman task. Peter, the German cook, is in love with the waitress, Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The kitchen looms around and encloses them all it is a microcosm of the world. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and Peter realizes that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband. In his grief and pain he runs berserk ... and destroys the kitchen.

2026-01-14 09:53:42 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 11:16:02 +0000 UTC(1h22m)

Man in the Moon

Scientists are looking for a man to send up to be the first man on the moon.

2026-01-14 08:05:28 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 09:53:42 +0000 UTC(1h48m)

Kidnapped

David Balfour is a recently orphaned young man from a tiny Highland village and the true heir to the title of Master of the Shaws. His uncle Ebenezer has designs on the title so hires Captain Hosean to dispose of his nephew.

2026-01-14 02:56:47 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 04:51:11 +0000 UTC(1h54m)

Final Programme

In the far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay, but a group of scientists believe they have discovered a way of moving humanity onto its next level - to create an immortal. Adventurer Jerry Cornelius gets involved because his recently deceased father worked out a formula to help the final programme and it's on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of his mansion. But Jerry's brother won't let anyone get at it...

2026-01-14 01:19:08 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 02:56:47 +0000 UTC(1h37m)

Dead of Night

Walter Craig is summoned to a British estate. The owner is a stranger to him, yet his face is familiar.

2026-01-13 23:28:03 +0000 UTC→2026-01-14 01:19:08 +0000 UTC(1h51m)

Passport to Shame

When the innocent-faced Malou, having been framed with a crime in Paris, arrives at a sordid brothel in England, it seems that she is condemned to a miserable and soul-destroying life...

2026-01-13 21:50:13 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 23:28:03 +0000 UTC(1h37m)

Rainbow Jacket

Sam Lilley, an ex-jockey who has been disbarred, is shown a way into Lingfield racecourse by a cheeky-faced lad named Georgie Crain. Impressed by the boy's knowledge of racing, Sam sees immense possibilities in the lad, but finds some opposition at first from his attractive, widowed mother, Barbara. Georgie manages to get taken on as a stable boy and with Sam's help begins to ride successfully. And when it looks as if the boy's career might go the same way as his own, Sam makes the

2026-01-13 14:47:59 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 16:38:05 +0000 UTC(1h50m)

Penny and the Pownall Case

An artist's model, with aspirations to be an amateur detective, helps a Scotland Yard detective break a gang helping Nazi war criminals escape from Europe.

2026-01-13 13:55:42 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 14:47:59 +0000 UTC(52m)

Nowhere To Go

In London, a Canadian serving prison time for grand theft escapes prison and attempts to retrieve his loot, kept in a bank safety deposit box, but his accomplice takes the security key while he only has the pass code.

2026-01-13 12:04:25 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 13:55:42 +0000 UTC(1h51m)

The Magic Box

William Friese-Greene was the first man to produce and patent a commercially practical motion-picture camera based on the principles still used today. He lived for his work, sacrificing himself and his family and fortune to satisfy an obsession - to make pictures move. This is his story and the story of the two women who loved him.

2026-01-13 10:07:05 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 12:04:25 +0000 UTC(1h57m)

The Greenman

From his early youth Hawkins had felt the need to eliminate the pompous, starting with a hated headmaster. As his fame spread, business prospered until the coming of war brought enforced semi-retirement.

2026-01-13 03:40:46 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 05:07:12 +0000 UTC(1h26m)

Family Way

Arthur Fitton and Jenny Piper's wedding is a typical North of England working class affair. But they are both unusually sensitive and find the well-meant but vulgar ribaldry of their relatives and neighbors a terrible obstacle to their efforts to consummate their marriage.

2026-01-13 01:47:31 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 03:40:46 +0000 UTC(1h53m)

Eyewitness

A young woman unwittingly becomes a witness to a murder.

2026-01-13 00:09:50 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 01:47:31 +0000 UTC(1h37m)

Bitter Harvest

Young Jennie Jones leaves her quiet, dull home in Wales to seek a glamorous life in 1960s London. But knowing what she wants from life itself and how to get it does not turn out quite as she expects. Starring Janet Munro and John Stride.

2026-01-12 22:28:51 +0000 UTC→2026-01-13 00:09:50 +0000 UTC(1h40m)

Don't Ever Leave Me

Jack Denton's grandfather Harry comes out of prison. He is soon up to his old tricks: embarrassment and chaos follow.

2026-01-12 20:59:01 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 22:28:51 +0000 UTC(1h29m)

Robbery

Earnings from a diamond-robbery, Clifton to hire first-rate specialists for the hold-up of all time. They will rob the night postal train that carries millions in old banknotes. Everything goes to plan until the very last moment when a series of unforeseen events conspire against them and the police manage to capture the gang. Clifton however tries to escape the country using a counterfeit identity...

2026-01-12 14:27:12 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 16:30:30 +0000 UTC(2h3m)

Checkpoint

A gunshot rings out in an Italian motor factory, the watchman lies dead and the safe door is open. As the police arrive, a figure disappears into the shadows and fires at a mercury cylinder. Who is responsible and what do they want?

2026-01-12 12:57:37 +0000 UTC→2026-01-12 14:27:12 +0000 UTC(1h29m)

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