Schedule for British Screen Classics

The Magic Box

The Magic Box

William Friese-Greene was the first to produce and patent a camera based on the principles still used today.

2026-06-13 19:10:34 +0000 UTC2026-06-13 21:07:53 +0000 UTC(1h57m)
Feminine Touch

Feminine Touch

Five young women arrive at St. Augustine's Hospital to take up a nursing career. They are told by the matron of the hardships and possible satisfactions that lie ahead of them. All succeed in passing their preliminary examination, and one of them falls in love with a young house doctor, Jim Alcott. She decides to give up her career to marry him, but later the experience of helping to save a patient's life and of giving fresh hope to a woman who has attempted suicide makes her change her mind and put duty first. However, the example of one of her friends who gets married and the advice of the matron persuades Susan to share Jim's career in the wilds of Canada.

2026-06-14 11:40:32 +0000 UTC2026-06-14 13:19:40 +0000 UTC(1h39m)
Kitchen

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.

2026-06-13 23:03:09 +0000 UTC2026-06-14 00:25:29 +0000 UTC(1h22m)
Loves of Joanna Godden

Loves of Joanna Godden

The story of a woman who loved three men for their different ways and discovered after many a heartache, that her first love was also her true love. Edward the Peacemaker was on the throne of England when Joanna Godden's father died and bequeathed a large farm on the Romney Marsh of Kent. Beautiful, impetuous, self-willed, Joanna determined to defy convention and - a mere woman - run the farm herself. Her decision outraged the whole shire - not least her farmer neighbor Arthur Alce ...

2026-06-12 12:24:30 +0000 UTC2026-06-12 14:03:40 +0000 UTC(1h39m)