BONUS Episode - Dearest Joy - Interview with Jonathan Tafler
Release Date: 12/04/2022
September / October 2025
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Welcome to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast - dedicated to the nation's favourite archive movie and TV channel. This week, runaway buses, ticking timebombs, drugged disco dancers, Frankie Howerd, Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra plus much more.
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September 2025
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Autumn is upon us and Mel Byron and the team choose some of the season's finest offerings from Talking Pictures TV, from 1940s British noir to Biggles, via a couple of top 1960s crime series.
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August 2025
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Even the Summer heat cannot stop Talking Pictures TV! Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through the month's offerings.
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July / August 2025
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Hi everybody, Scott here once again to welcome you to the podcast dedicated to the nation’s favourite archive TV and movie channel, Talking Pictures TV. This is the podcast that brings you behind-the-scenes stories, special features, and the latest highlights from the wonderful world of classic cinema and beloved television shows. Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering these gems for the first time, settle in as we explore the unforgettable stars, hidden treasures, and fascinating history that make Talking Pictures TV such a unique part of our viewing lives. It won't just...
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June/July 2025
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Some hot summer selections from Mel Byron and the reviewing team. Stay at home, close the curtains and settle down in front of the telly with John Mills, Frankie Howerd, Fred Astaire & Rita Hayworth, Warren Beaaty and Caroline Munro. What a party!
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June 2025
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Let us lead you through the early Summer programming of the world's greatest TV channel.
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May 2025
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Hi everybody – Scott here welcoming you once again to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast – the podcast dedicated to the nation’s favourite archive tv and movie channel And what’s more it’s you, the viewers who are front and centre of the show as you send in your reviews of all your favourite entertainment coming up on the channel over the next three weeks. In this episode: zombies, soldiers, elephants, Jacques Tati...and much more!
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April/May 2025
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Margaret Rutherford, Alastair Sim, Peter Sellers, John Gielgud, Leigh Lawson are among just a few of the glittering stars we meet as Mel Byron and the team take a look at what's coming up on TPTV Over late April and early May. It's Easter treats galore for classic film and TV fans!
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March/April 2025
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Daniel Reifferscheid guides you through another three weeks of top Talking Pictures TV content with the aid of a trusty band of reviewers.
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March 2025
Talking Pictures TV Podcast
Hi everybody – Scott here welcoming you once again to the official Talking Pictures TV podcast – the podcast dedicated to the nation’s favourite archive tv and movie channel. And what’s more it’s you, the viewers who are front and centre of the show as you send in your reviews of all your favourite entertainment coming up on the channel over the next three weeks. In store this week... court room dramas, war time adventures, Boston cops and menacing robots alongside Matt Monro and Vera Lynn.
info_outlineMel Byron talks to actor, Jonathan Tafler, son of TPTV favourites, Sydney Tafler and Joy Shelton. Sydney starred in 'It Always Rains on Sunday' (1947), 'Reach for the Sky' (1956) and many other classic films. Joy's films include ' Waterloo Road' (1945) and 'Millions Like Us' (1943). Jonathan's new book, 'Dearest Joy' shares letters between the newly-married Sydney and Joy as work commitments see them separated at the end of World War 2. Pregnant Joy is working in the West End, whilst Sydney is touring with Olivier's Old Vic company. Sydney's travels take him to, among other places, Germany just after VE Day. Jonathan also shares his own latest acting projects with us.