TalkingPictures

Founder of Talking Pictures TV and one half of the Footage Detectives, Noel Cronin, shares shows and films not to be missed throughout the end of July and beginning of August.

1940. War. Director: Terry Morse. Stars Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester & Leonard Mudie. Bennett's home is a hotbed for spies. But no one knows the identity of the German spymaster.

1974. Stars John Slater, Malcolm Terris & Angela Crow. A fireraiser for Detective Skinner and an extortionist for Stone and Lynch. Some people have the strangest pastimes.

Drama. Director: Roy Kellino. Stars Dick Powell & Joan Elan. A professor in Japan is fired after falling for a former student. He is determined to bring her to the US.

1979. Stars Anthony Andrews, Judy Geeson & Iain Cuthbertson. Are Ash's injuries too much to overcome - or is it depression over the many lives lost.

1962. Stars Dermot Walsh, Willoughby Goddard & Nadja Regin. When Lord Arnold hears that the King is travelling to query his absence from battle, he plans to have Richard killed.

1943. War. Directed by Jeffery Dell. Stars Jane Baxter, Clifford Evans, Philip Friend. Based on a true story. A Belgian Pilot's daring attempt to retrieve the Colours from Nazi-occupied Belgium.

1959. Following the reflections of a student nurse over her three years of training.

1950. Drama. Directed by Henry Cass. Stars Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell & Kay Walsh. A salesman who learns he has months to live cashes in his savings to live in a fancy hotel.

From the private collection of Richard Hearne. Lovely footage a of charity celebrity Tea Party with Vera Lynn as the star guest. See who you can spot among the celebrity guests.

1944. Drama. Directed by Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders. Starring Bernard Miles, Rosamund John and Niall MacGinnis. A village bands together to save its wildlife from road development.

This week's blast from the past incudes a reel from 1953's Coronation Fair, a sneak into the secret Cabaret Club & we go offshore to remember Radio North Sea International.

1993. Stars Bruno Cremer, Marie Dubois & Andréa Ferréol. Louis Thouret is found stabbed to death. Maigret uncovers a trail of the victim's secrets while hunting the killer.

1961. Drama. Director: Godfrey Grayson. Stars Jill Ireland, Ellen Pollock & John Charlesworth. Framed for robbery and sent to a reform school, a young girl becomes the target of a vicious warden.

1959. Stars James Gregory, Robert Karnes & Barbara Stuart. Detective Ruditsky solves the murder of a young woman by uncovering crucial evidence.

Murders in Sarlat - Meurtres à Sarlat. 2017. Director: Delphine Lemoine. Stars Cecile Bois & Thierry Godard. The son of the region's largest manufacturer of preserved foods has been murdered.