Depp, Hanks, Madonna, Neeson ...Jeanie’s big name co-stars

Extra – Jeanie Gold

9:00am Friday 21st September 2012

PIRATES of the Carribean, the Da Vinci Code and Love Actually: Jeanie Gold has appeared in some of the biggest movies ever produced. But you probably won’t have noticed her.

Singing waiter Terry Fane is looking for fame

Crooner – Terry Fane serenades customers at Trade Counters in Southend

10:21am Thursday 17th May 2012

IN 1958 he was the singing waiter of Southend Airport. Half a century later, in 2008, he was the X Factor contender, saluted for his guts and talent by Simon Cowell, below, and Danni Minogue. The two singers are one and the same person, and his name is Terry Fane – a songsmith who just never stopped chasing the big break.

Portrait of a very different Essex

Life story – Reg Higgins in his Leigh home with his new autobiography

8:00pm Friday 11th May 2012

THE generation which came of age just after the Second World War has started to write up its memoirs.

Hitchcock’s man in Essex

Self-proclaimed dilettante – John Kennedy Melling

10:00pm Friday 4th May 2012

JOHN Kennedy Melling, author, journalist, broadcaster, film-maker, dramatist, livery company master, showbusiness accountant and raconteur, is one of the star turns lined up for the 2012 Southend Film Festival.

Essex presents...history on film

David Cleveland – the film archivist with a 1909-built film projector

9:00am Friday 27th April 2012

FOR more than 30 years, the East Anglian Film Archive has been thrilling audiences all over the region with its sights and sounds of times gone by.

When Southend TV sets ruled the waves

2:29pm Friday 16th March 2012

Minnie Bunn, 91, and still putting in a full day's work, remembers life at EKCO

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