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