Schedule for British Screen Classics

Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise

When Captain Paris takes over at a big army camp as Chaplain and Entertainments Officer, the troops are in for some surprises. Captain Paris finds the Garrison Theatre ill attended, as the troops favor the local hostelries in preference to the succession of feminine string quartets and madrigal singers hitherto engaged for their amusement. Paris sets out to remedy this sad state of affairs, but his idea of staging a Brains Trust with local celebrities as the 'brains' turns out to have disastrous results!

2026-01-04 00:46:49 +0000 UTC2026-01-04 02:25:58 +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.

2026-01-09 22:07:40 +0000 UTC2026-01-09 23:30:00 +0000 UTC(1h22m)
Drayton Case

Drayton Case

Step by step, thrill by thrill, we watch Scotland Yard detectives build up damning evidence against a murderer who for years had believed himself completely safe from discovery. When a human skeleton is discovered beneath the rubble of a bomb school, it is presumed to be the victim of enemy bombing. Police scientists, however, making a routine examination, prove that the bones are those of a woman who had been strangled...

2026-01-09 11:28:41 +0000 UTC2026-01-09 11:56:25 +0000 UTC(27m)