Inside the sky at night

Planetary physicist Dr Sheila Kanani on why now is the time to spot shooting stars and a sunlit Saturn

It was at 7.15pm on Thursday 22 September 1955 that the greatest commercial television event appeared on screens in the London area. As screens flickered the first images, most of the 200,000 viewers

So we’re back, for another “celebration of the mysterious, the miraculous and the downright weird” – but does our motorcycle-mad host the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe have any new tricks up his sleeve in

Dominic Sandbrook is speaking about Gordon of Khartoum. He lowers his voice to a reverent whisper, leans into his microphone and tells me of “an imperial hero, an adventurer, who ended his days on the

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Talking Pictures TV talkingpicturestv.co.uk SKY 328 | FREEVIEW 82 FREESAT 306 | VIRGIN 445 Dick Barton at Bay (1950) (Monday 1 September, 12.05pm) Action. Director: Godfrey Grayson. Starring: Don Stan