Richard E. Grant on Ealing Comedies - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

Episode 1
Richard E Grant takes us on a fascinating guided tour of Ealing comedies, exploring classic films and their comic legacy. He begins by tracing the history of Ealing Studios.

Episode 2
The fascinating guided tour of Ealing comedies stops off in the golden age, which produced such classics as The Lavender Hill Mob and Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Episode 3
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Matthew Sweet and Danny Baker join the actor as he looks at some of the studio's steamiest offerings to date, train comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, and explores the story behind one of its most famous films, The Ladykillers.
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