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Not for the nervous! Classic tales of fear and imagination
Today Michael Bryant tells The Mezzotint by M. R. James
'Begging your pardon, sir, but it ain't a picture I should 'ang where my little girl could see it, sir ... if she was to ketch a sight of it she would be in a taking and no mistake.' (repeat)

starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn with May Robson, Charlie Ruggles and Barry Fitzgerald.
David Huxley is a quiet, contented anthropologist - quiet and contented, that is, until he meets Susan Vance and ' Baby,' her pet leopard....
Howard Hawks's classic 30s crazy comedy co-stars Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn in a perfectly matched partnership.
Director Howard Hawks

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While most of the data in the BBC’s Programme Index is drawn from Radio Times and BBC programmes pages, a minority of listings have been compiled using the BBC’s own historical documents and early BBC listings printed in contemporary newspapers.