Talking Pictures TV Podcast

About Talking Pictures TV Podcast

The official Talking Pictures TV Podcast, hosted by Mel, Daniel and Scott and featuring reviews, recommendations, interviews, special guests and fascinating insights into the stars and creatives who've turned Talking Pictures TV into the biggest independent TV channel in Great Britain! Follow the show at @tptvpodcast

Publisher

Daniel, Mel and Scott

Category

history · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2019

Latest episode

13 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

132 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Sept 2026

   September / October 2026

   Three films, three reviewers, three weeks of Talking Pictures TV. We're back with another trawl through the Talking Pictures TV schedules, picking out some of the films we think deserve a place on your watchlist over the next three weeks. Mel gets things underway with Noël Coward's supernatural comedy Blithe Spirit (1945), directed by David Lean and starring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond and the magnificent Margaret Rutherford. Ghostly goings-on, marital complications and one of cinema's most memorable mediums combine in a wonderfully British mixture of wit, exasperation and paranormal domestic chaos. Hal, meanwhile, heads for Paris with Charade (1963), Stanley Donen's enormously entertaining blend of romance, comedy, mystery and Hitchcock-style thriller. Audrey Hepburn finds herself surrounded by suspicious characters, missing money and several people who appear to be telling her rather less than the truth, while Cary Grant demonstrates once again that being impossibly charming can get you through almost anything. And Sarah takes us back to post-war Britain with The Guinea Pig (1948), starring Richard Attenborough as a working-class boy suddenly transplanted into the unfamiliar world of an English public school. Adapted from Warren Chetham-Strode's successful play, it mixes comedy and drama while taking a look at class, education and the social barriers that were beginning to shift in Britain after the war. As ever, expect recommendations, memories, trivia, diversions and plenty of affectionate appreciation for the films, actors and unexpected discoveries that make Talking Pictures TV such an essential destination for lovers of classic cinema. So settle down, make yourself comfortable and join Mel, Hal and Sarah as they rummage through another three weeks of the schedules and attempt to persuade you to add just a few more films to that increasingly unmanageable watchlist. This episode, and every previous edition of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, is available here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/talkingpicturestvpodcast Or wherever you download your podcasts. #TalkingPicturesTV #TalkingPicturesTVPodcast #ClassicFilm #BritishCinema #BlitheSpirit #Charade #TheGuineaPig #DavidLean #NoelCoward #CaryGrant #AudreyHepburn #RichardAttenborough #MargaretRutherford #ClassicMovies #FilmPodcast

2. 

   24 Aug 2026

   September 2026

   Five films, four reviewers, three weeks of Talking Pictures TV – and one very special guest. We're back with another trawl through the Talking Pictures TV schedules, picking out some of the films we think deserve a place on your watchlist over the next three weeks. Mel kicks things off with the glorious screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936), starring William Powell and Carole Lombard – a wonderfully sharp, funny tale of the idle rich, an unexpected butler and a family with rather more money than sense. Scott heads into altogether more sobering waters with A Night to Remember (1958), Roy Ward Baker's superbly restrained account of the sinking of the Titanic. Still one of the finest British disaster films ever made, and proof that sometimes understatement can be far more powerful than spectacle. Gareth, meanwhile, has clearly been spending too much time near the shoreline and brings us Behemoth the Sea Monster (1959) – a wonderfully enjoyable slice of British monster-movie mayhem involving radiation, destruction and a very large creature making a terrible nuisance of itself. And Sarah ventures down into The Cellar Club with Caroline Munro, choosing the first two films in its latest season: Hammer's gloriously strange Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971) and Michael Powell's disturbing, controversial and now rightly celebrated Peeping Tom (1960). Expect the usual mixture of recommendations, memories, trivia, disagreements, diversions and affectionate appreciation of the films that make Talking Pictures TV such an essential destination for lovers of classic cinema. And don't switch off when the main episode finishes. We've got a very special feature immediately afterwards as Sarah chats with Ian Ogilvy about his latest movie, along with a look back at a remarkable career that has taken him through some memorable corners of British film and television. This episode, and every previous edition of the Talking Pictures TV Podcast, is available here: https://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/talkingpicturestvpodcast #TalkingPicturesTV #TalkingPicturesTVPodcast #ClassicFilm #BritishCinema #MyManGodfrey #ANightToRemember #BehemothTheSeaMonster #DrJekyllAndSisterHyde #PeepingTom #TheCellarClub #CarolineMunro #IanOgilvy #ClassicMovies #FilmPodcast

3. 

   3 Aug 2026

   August 2026

   No Mel or Sarah this week, so the boys have been left unsupervised with the Talking Pictures TV schedules. What could possibly go wrong? With three weeks of cinematic treasures to choose from, Scott, Hal, Daniel and this week's host, Gareth, have each been rummaging through the listings in search of something they think deserves a place on your watchlist.   Scott has selected Tomorrow at Ten, Lance Comfort's cracking 1963 British thriller starring John Gregson, Alec Clunes and a splendidly sinister Robert Shaw. Shaw plays Marlow, a kidnapper whose scheme involving the young son of a wealthy businessman comes with a particularly nasty ticking deadline. John Gregson is the detective faced with finding the boy before time runs out. Lean, tense and running at around 80 minutes, it is the sort of economical British thriller that gets on with the job without feeling the need to hang around for another half-hour explaining itself.   Daniel, meanwhile, has gone for Green for Danger, Sidney Gilliat's marvellous 1946 murder mystery set in a wartime hospital during the Blitz. When a patient dies on the operating table, the arrival of Scotland Yard's Inspector Cockrill, played with enormous relish by Alastair Sim, suggests that something rather more sinister than medical misfortune may be involved. Trevor Howard, Sally Gray, Rosamund John and Leo Genn are among the suspects in a film adapted from Christianna Brand's novel and combining a proper murder mystery with a wonderfully dry streak of British humour.   And apparently one Alastair Sim film wasn't enough.   Hal has selected The Green Man, the gloriously dark 1956 comedy in which Sim plays Harry Hawkins, an outwardly respectable watchmaker who has found a rather more lucrative sideline as a professional assassin. Unfortunately for Hawkins, his latest carefully arranged murder keeps being interrupted by George Cole's enthusiastic vacuum cleaner salesman. Add Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams, Raymond Huntley, Dora Bryan, Arthur Lowe and Richard Wattis to the proceedings and you have ninety minutes of beautifully controlled comic chaos. Directed by Robert Day and written by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat, it also gives this week's choices a neat little connection with Green for Danger.   Finally, Gareth has decided that Britain simply isn't big enough for him this week and has gone continental with Georges Franju's extraordinary Les Yeux sans visage, better known as Eyes Without a Face. Made in 1960 and starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli and Edith Scob, Franju's French horror classic concerns a brilliant surgeon desperately trying to restore the face of his disfigured daughter. Unfortunately, his chosen method of doing so makes even the most questionable private cosmetic clinic look reassuringly respectable. Beautiful, eerie and genuinely unsettling, it mixes fairy-tale imagery, medical horror and dreamlike black-and-white photography into something that still feels strikingly modern more than sixty years later.   So that's four films, two Alastair Sims, one psychopathic Robert Shaw, a professional hitman, a deeply worrying surgeon and a vacuum cleaner salesman. Just another perfectly normal week at The Official Talking Pictures TV Podcast.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

3.7 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

72

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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