Talking Pictures
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Talking Pictures
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Talking Pictures
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
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A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Episode 1: Bette Davis
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend Bette Davis,...
Episode 2: John Mills
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the Osar-winning actor Sir Joh...
Episode 3: David Niven
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the Ocsar-winning actor David...
Episode 4: Gene Kelly
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the legendary Hollywood actor...
Episode 5: John Wayne
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend John Wayne, c...
Episode 6: Tony Curtis
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Tony Curtis, ca...
Episode 7: Dirk Bogarde
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood legend Dirk Bogarde,...
Episode 8: James Stewart
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actor James Stew...
Episode 9: Lauren Bacall
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall,...
Episode 10: Orson Welles
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by the legendary Hollywood actor...
Episode 11: Ingrid Bergman
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman,...
Episode 12: Alec Guinness
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Alec Guinness, capturing the m...
Episode 13: Gregory Peck
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Hollywood icon Gregory Peck, c...
Episode 14: James Mason
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar nominated Hollywood star...
Episode 15: Charlton Heston
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar winning Hollywood actor...
Episode 16: Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by legendary Hollywood double act...
Episode 17: Richard Burton
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar nominated Hollywood icon...
Episode 18: Alfred Hitchcock
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by iconic Hollywood director Alfr...
Episode 19: Shirley Maclaine
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by one of Hollywood's most outspo...
Episode 20: Joan Fontaine
A look at the life of Joan Fontaine, one of Britain's best-loved actresses, using rarely seen archiv...
Episode 21: Richard Attenborough
A look at the life and work of Richard Attenborough, with vintage interviews and classic archive cli...
Episode 22: Deborah Kerr
A look back at the career of British actress Deborah Kerr, with vintage television interviews and cl...
Episode 23: Laurence Olivier
Sylvia Syms looks back on the life of Laurence Olivier, perhaps Britain's greatest actor, using rare...
Episode 24: Sophia Loren
An examination of the life and career of one of cinema's most glamorous stars, Sophia Loren, with ra...
Episode 25: Paul Newman
An examination of the life of actor Paul Newman, using rarely seen interviews from the BBC archives...
Episode 26: Robert Mitchum
The life and career of one of Hollywood's original bad boys, Robert Mitchum, is examined using archi...
Episode 27: Peter O'Toole
A look at the life of the Lawrence of Arabia star and legendary hell-raiser, Peter O'Toole, with rar...
Episode 28: Robert Redford
The career of Robert Redford, one of the big screen's greatest heartthrobs, is examined in this expl...
Episode 29: David Lean
A compilation of rarely seen interviews and archive footage tells the story of movie-master David Le...
Episode 30: Judi Dench
Sylvia Syms presents rarely seen footage from the BBC archives that explores the life and career of...
Episode 31: Maggie Smith
Sylvia Syms narrates a look at the life of one of Britain's best and best-loved actresses, with clas...
Episode 32: Julie Andrews
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Mary Poppins and Sound of Musi...
Episode 33: Michael Caine
A look at the life of acting legend Michael Caine, using rarely seen television interviews and class...
Episode 34: Sean Connery
A look at the life of Sean Connery, using rarely seen television interviews and classic archive clip...
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Episode 1: Jack Lemmon
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Some Like It Hot and Days of W...
Episode 2: Shelley Winters
A look at television appearances made over the years by Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters, with...
Episode 3: On the Waterfront
Sixty years after its original release, Talking Pictures examines On the Waterfront, one of the grea...
Episode 4: Albert Finney
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Albert Fin...
Episode 5: Noel Coward
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by award-winning actor Noel Cowar...
Episode 6: Kenneth More
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by BAFTA-winning actor Kenneth Mo...
Episode 7: Hollywood's Great Directors
A retrospective look at the careers of some of the greatest and most successful directors in movie h...
Episode 8: Richard Harris
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by Richard Harris, with interview...
Episode 9: Hitchcock's Leading Actors
To this day, Alfred Hitchcock is looked on as one of cinema's best and most influential directors. B...
Episode 10: Christopher Lee
A look back at the life and career of one of the greats of British cinema - Sir Christopher Lee. In...
Episode 11: Omar Sharif
A look back at the life of the actor Omar Sharif, who died in July 2015 at the age of 83. Using arch...
Episode 12: Musicals
In this episode, Talking Pictures tells the story of the Hollywood musical, using interviews with st...
Episode 13: Anthony Hopkins
A look back at the life of Oscar-winning actor Sir Anthony Hopkins and featuring interviews conducte...
Episode 14: John Huston
A retrospective look at television appearances made over the years by actor and director John Huston...
Episode 15: Hollywood Actresses
Sylvia Syms looks back on the legendary leading ladies of Hollywood - the glamorous and often powerf...
Episode 16: Great British Comedies
Sylvia Syms looks back on the great British comedy stars who over the years have had cinema audience...
Episode 17: Child Stars
With classic interviews and rarely seen archive footage, Sylvia Syms examines the world of the big s...
Episode 18: Sex Symbols
Sylvia Syms looks at the handsome heroes, gorgeous heroines, pin-ups and bombshells who came to be k...
Episode 19: War Films
A look back at the great British war films that boosted the nation's morale in the postwar years and...
Episode 20: Bing Crosby
A look at TV appearances made over the years by Bing Crosby, with interviews from the archive and cl...
Episode 21: The Black Stars of Film
A retrospective look at some of the best-loved and most popular black stars to have graced cinema sc...
Episode 22: Alan Rickman
A look back at the life and work of Alan Rickman, one of Britain's best-loved actors, who died in Ja...
Episode 23: Debbie Reynolds
A look back at the life of the actress Debbie Reynolds - one of the best-loved stars of Hollywood's...
Episode 24: John Hurt
A look back at the life and work of Sir John Hurt - one of Britain's acting greats, who died last mo...
Episode 25: 60s Icons
Sylvia Syms explores the BBC's archives and chooses a selection of rarely seen interviews that tell...
Episode 26: Harry Potter
Actor Warwick Davis - AKA Professor Flitwick and Griphook - explores the BBC archives and conjures u...
Episode 27: Roger Moore
A look back at the life and career of one of Britain's best-loved actors, Sir Roger Moore, who died...
Episode 28: Jane Fonda
As double-Oscar winner Jane Fonda approaches her 80th birthday, a look back at the life of one of Ho...
Episode 29: Bette and Joan
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archives to tell the story of one of Hollywood's greatest ever feu...
Episode 30: Barry Norman
Rory Bremner explores the BBC archives for an affectionate look back at the career of Barry Norman,...
Episode 31: Epics
Sylvia Syms looks through the BBC archive to discover what makes an epic. The programme looks at the...
Episode 32: Westerns
Sylvia Syms looks back through the BBC’s archives to tell the story of what is perhaps cinema’s most...
Episode 33: Rom Coms
Celia Imrie explores one of the best-loved movie genres - the romantic comedy. With classic intervie...
Episode 34: 70s Legends
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell...
Episode 35: Joan Collins
A look back at legendary television appearances by Joan Collins.
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Episode 1: Westerns
Sylvia Syms looks back through the BBC’s archives to tell the story of what is perhaps cinema’s most...
Episode 2: Rom Coms
Celia Imrie explores one of the best-loved movie genres - the romantic comedy. With classic intervie...
Episode 3: 70s Legends
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell...
Episode 4: Joan Collins
A look back at legendary television appearances by Joan Collins.
Episode 5: Christmas Classics
Celia Imrie unwraps a selection of the very best Christmas movies ever made and looks at why films a...
Episode 6: Agatha Christie
As Kenneth Branagh prepares to unveil the latest version of Death on the Nile, Celia Imrie looks at...
Episode 7: Dames
Celia Imrie takes a look at some of the leading ladies who’ve proved time and again, year after year...
Episode 8: War Stories
Celia Imrie takes us on a journey through the BBC’s archives for an in-depth look at the continuing...
Episode 9: Marvellous Musicals
Celia Imrie celebrates the cinema’s marvellous musicals, venturing back through the BBC’s archives t...
Episode 10: Film's Family Favourites
Join Celia Imrie as we go bobbing along through the beautiful, briny BBC archives for a look at the...
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Episode 1: Perfect Partners
A look back at some of cinema’s best-loved partnerships, from Fred and Ginger, Doris Day and Rock Hu...
Episode 2: Meryl Streep
A celebration of Meryl Streep, perhaps the greatest actress of modern times, using decades’ worth of...
Episode 3: Meryl Streep
A celebration of Meryl Streep, perhaps the greatest actress of modern times, using decades’ worth of...
A look back at television appearances by legends of the silver screen, using archive footage to tell the story of their lives and careers.
Episode 1: Glenda Jackson
Celia Imrie tells the story of Glenda Jackson, one of Britain's greatest-ever acting talents, who fa...
Episode 2: Dustin Hoffman
Moments from interviews conducted on a range of BBC shows over the years help to tell the story of D...
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