Ten years of Talking Pictures: ‘I try to watch modern TV but they mumble'
Happily, amid a world of turbulent streamers, after 87,000 hours and 5,000 films, shorts and TV series, Talking Pictures' schedules are a millpond of consistency, in which the monochrome, the well enunciated and the unchallenging thrive.
Monday's un-showy birthday line-up is typical, featuring Calling Paul Temple, a 1948 detective film, a documentary on the Dunkirk-faring steamship the Medway Queen, and one of the last Dixon of Dock Greens from 1976, which is about as modern era as
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