21-05-2025
Ten years of Talking Pictures: ‘I try to watch modern TV but they mumble'
Prepare to get nostalgic for nostalgia. Talking Pictures TV, the old movie and telly channel, celebrates its tenth anniversary on 26 May — and, yes, it does seem like only yesterday that we pleasantly wasted our first rainy afternoon in front of an easy-to-follow Fifties B-movie.
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
