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Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for 5 months

Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who battle to preserve the local railway line by running it themselves, until they are sabotaged in a midnight raid by a rival bus company. Show more

Contributors

Walter Valentine:
Stanley Holloway
Vicar Sam Weech:
George Relph
George Blakeworth:
Naunton Wayne
Squire Gordon Chesterford:
John Gregson
Harry Hawkins:
Sidney James
Vernon Crump:
Jack McGowran
Writer:
TEB Clarke

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Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?

Series 2

Episode 13: The Shape of Things to Come

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Classic sitcom. The funeral of disreputable old Uncle Jacob gives Bob an insight into his future. Show more

Top of the Pops

Christmas 1978

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Four

Noel Edmonds presents a special Top of the Pops from 1978, with Darts, Abba, Boney M, Brotherhood of Man, Father Abraham, Bee Gees, Brian and Michael, Wings and Showaddywaddy. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Noel Edmonds
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Darts
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Abba
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Boney M.
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Father Abraham
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Bee Gees
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Wings
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Showaddywaddy
Performer:
Rose Royce
Performer:
John Travolta
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Legs & Co.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

on BBC Four

Mark Radcliffe presents a countdown of the ten songs which have earned the most money of all time - ten classic songs each with an extraordinary story behind them. Show more

Contributors

Presenter:
Mark Radcliffe
Producer:
Guy Evans
Director:
Guy Evans
Executive Producer:
Richard Bowron
Executive Producer:
Mark Hill

Visiting the great mosques and palaces built by the Ottoman emperors, Simon Sebag Montefiore looks at how Istanbul became the imperial capital and Islam's most powerful city. Show more

The Bridge

Series 1

Episode 3

Duration: 57 minutes

on BBC Four

Available for years

Scandinavian crime drama serial. In Copenhagen several homeless people are poisoned, seemingly to draw attention to the problem of people falling through the cracks of society. Show more

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