Ludovic Kennedy

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.

Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling shares his opinions on the Twelve Days of Christmas, in discussion with Ludovic Kennedy.

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of pioneering aviator and American hero Charles Lindbergh. This documentary examines lingering doubts about the justice of his conviction. (1982)

Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed in 1936 for the kidnapping and murder of the infant son of pioneering aviator and American hero Charles Lindbergh. This documentary examines lingering doubts about the justice of his conviction. (1982)

A widely-acclaimed documentary film from 1982 about the effects of nuclear weapons, directed by Mick Jackson who went on to direct Threads two years later in 1984. What would be the effects on people and buildings if one medium-sized nuclear bomb was dropped on a large city? How effectively would various types of shelter protect us? In an experimental trial, two couples live in fallout shelters for ten days each

전셋집을 운영하면서 사이비 진료 행위를 하던 크리스티(John Reginald Christie: 리차드 어텐보로 분)는 아내가 집을 비운 틈을 타 천식으로 고생하는 뮤리엘(Muriel Eady: 필립스 맥마혼 분)을 집으로 불러 들인다. 자신이 고안한 최면 개스를 흡입시켜 기절시키고는 아무런 저항도 못하는 여자를 폭행하는 희열감에 들뜨는 크리스티, 끝내 뮤리엘은 목이 졸린 채 살해되고 만다. 5년후, 비어있는 3층에 티모시(Timothy John Evans: 존 허트 분) 일가가 세들어 온다. 일자무식이지만 나름대로 똑똑한 체 하는 티모시와 그의 아름다운 부인 베릴(Beryl Evans: 쥬디 기슨 분)이 싸우는 장면을 목격한 크리스티는 여인의 속살을 보고 또다시 잠들어 있던 욕망이 꿈틀거리는 것을 느끼는데. 크리스티는 그들이 원치 않던 임신을 하게 된 사실을 알고는 중절을 해주겠노라며 교묘히 접근, 같은 수법으로 베릴을 살해한다. 티모시가 아내를 살해했다는 누명을 쓰고 교수형을 당하자 어렴풋이 남편의 정체를 눈치채게 된 자신의 아내마저 죽이는 크리스티의 변태적인 살인행각은 그후로도 계속되어 마침내 그가 체포되고서야 엄청난 연쇄 살인 사건의 전모가 드러나게 된다.

Documentary about HMS Eagle from 1966. This aircraft-carrier was sailing from Mombasa to Singapore under the command of Captain John Roxburgh. Join the crew through their trails and tribulations

A reconstruction using archive film of the bombing of Hiroshima, followed by a discussion of the main issues by Ludovic Kennedy and Group-Captain Cheshire.

A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...

A 1992 documentary marking the history and achievements of the British televison company, Granada TV.