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William — The Great

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The Forum

BBC World Service, 10.06am

The US doesn’t want for

stories of immigrants who

have transcended humble

origins to find fame, fortune

or notoriety. But the story of

Harry Houdini, right, born

Erik Weiss in Budapest in

1874, is a humdinger. Rajan

Datar speaks to biographers,

academics and experts in

magic to understand the

escapologist’s unique talents,

innate showmanship,

unrelenting drive and

campaign against the

spiritualists, psychics and

mediums he considered

frauds. That campaign caused

a rift with his friend Arthur

Conan Doyle and makes

up the most absorbing

sequences here. Gabriel Tate

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Film guide
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Film4

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11.00am The Chronicles of

Narnia: The Voyage of the

Dawn Treader (PG, 2010)

Fantasy adventure

starring Georgie Henley

1.25pm Little Women

(U, 1994) Period drama

starring Winona Ryder

3.45 The Karate Kid Part III

(PG, 1989) Adventure sequel

starring Ralph Macchio

6.10 A Knight’s Tale (PG,

2001) Comedy adventure

starring Heath Ledger

9.00 Kingsman: The Golden

Circle (15, 2017) Secret agents

join forces with their US

counterparts to bring down

a psychotic femme fatale.

Comedy adventure starring

Taron Egerton and Colin Firth

11.50 Hell or High Water (15,

2016) Drama with Jeff Bridges

1.55am-4.00 Carrie (18, 1976)

Horror starring Sissy Spacek

Talking Pictures TV

FV 81 FS 306 SKY 328 VIRGIN 445

6.00am It’s a Wonderful

World (U, 1956) Musical

comedy starring George Cole

7.45 Passport to Treason (15,

1956) Mystery starring Rod

Cameron and Lois Maxwell

9.20 Dragonwyck (PG, 1946)

Drama starring Gene Tierney

11.25 Swallows and Amazons

(U, 1974) Family adventure

starring Virginia McKenna

1.20pm Daddy Long Legs (U,

1955) Romantic musical with

Fred Astaire and Leslie Caron

3.50 Kind Hearts and

Coronets (U, 1949) Comedy

starring Alec Guinness

6.00 Interpol Calling

6.30 Look at Life

6.40 Return to Yesterday (U,

1940) Drama with Clive Brook

8.00 Justice

9.00 Dance with a Stranger

(15, 1985) Fact-based drama

starring Miranda Richardson

10.55 Heavenly Pursuits (15,

1986) Comedy drama starring

Tom Conti and Helen Mirren

12.45am Enemy Mine

(12, 1985) Sci-fi adventure

starring Dennis Quaid

2.55 Botany Bay (PG, 1952)

Drama starring Alan Ladd

4.50-5.00 Arbroath

Harbour in the 50s

GREAT! Movies

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9.00am The Deadly Room:

Garage Sale Mystery III

(12, 2015) Crime drama

starring Lori Loughlin

10.50 GREAT! Movie News

11.00 Garage Sale Mystery:

The Wedding Dress

(PG, 2015) Crime drama

starring Lori Loughlin

12.50pm GREAT! Movie News

1.00 The Site of Murder: An

Emma Fielding Mystery

(PG, 2017) Whodunit starring

Courtney Thorne-Smith

2.50 GREAT! Movie News

3.00 Jack and Jill (PG, 2011)

Comedy with Adam Sandler

4.50 Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG,

2009) Comedy starring Kevin

James and Keir O’Donnell

6.45 The Net (12, 1995)

Thriller with Sandra Bullock

9.00 Die Hard with a

Vengeance (15, 1995) Action

thriller sequel with Bruce

Willis and Samuel L Jackson

11.30-1.35am First Kill (15,

2017) Action thriller starring

Bruce Willis and Ty Shelton

TCM Movies

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6.00am Hollywood’s Best

Film Directors Triple bill

7.45 Off Set

8.00 Jet Pilot (U, 1957)

Romantic adventure

10.20 Black Patch

(PG, 1957) Western

12.05pm Sherlock Holmes

and the Woman in Green

(PG, 1945) Mystery

1.30 Calamity Jane and Sam

Bass (U, 1949) Western

3.20 Murder Most Foul

(U, 1964) Mystery starring

Margaret Rutherford

5.15 TCM Shorts:

Michael Caine Off Set

5.45 Battle of the Bulge

(PG, 1965) Second World War

drama starring Robert Shaw

9.00 Jarhead (15, 2005)

Drama with Jake Gyllenhaal

11.35-2.20am Miami Vice (15,

2006) Crime thriller starring

Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx

Sky Cinema Premiere

SKY 301 VIRGIN 401

12.40pm The Colony (15,

2021) Sci-fi thriller

2.30 Pups Alone (PG, 2021)

Family comedy with the voice

of Jennifer Love Hewitt

4.30 Fatman (15, 2020)

Fantasy starring Mel Gibson

6.20 Peter Rabbit 2 (U, 2021)

Animated sequel with the

voice of James Corden

8.00 The Suicide Squad (15,

2021) Comic-book adventure

comedy, with Idris Elba

10.20-12.15am The Colony

(15, 2021) A female astronaut,

shipwrecked on the long-

decimated Earth, must decide

the fate of the wasteland’s

remaining populace. Sci-fi

thriller with Nora Arnezeder

Dance with a Stranger

(Talking Pictures TV, 9pm)