What’s on the BOX

I’m not the only one who coped with the last year by curling up on the sofa with the entire back catalogue of Netflix.

When I was feeling particularly meh, I also found myself going back to old war movies like my grandpa’s favourite, The Guns of Navarone (1961). My grandpa used to be in the Navy, so I’d spend Sunday afternoons peeling potatoes for the roast lunch with him, and hiding behind the sofa when tanks came over the hill.

Reader Julie Coan in Heywood, Greater Manchester, has shared some of her favourite shows that made lockdown bearable.

She writes: “I have coped by watching feel-good films like my favourite from 1970, The Railway Children with Jenny Agutter.

“And also Shirley Maclaine musical, Sweet Charity (1969), which I must have seen six times in the last two months on the Sony Movies Classic Channel.” She adds: “I love the songs, Where Am I Going? and I’m A Brass Band.

“I definitely need to get out more!”

I haven’t tried Sony Classic, Julie, but I did take out a subscription to Britbox for a while, but it made me feel old.

A reader who doesn’t mind feeling a bit dated, is George Sargeson in Hull, who writes: “I am 86 years old and wonder if any readers remember an old TV programme called Nathaniel Titlark starring Bernard Miles?”

He adds: “It was long before colour TV and it started with a little ditty, ‘Oh who would work when he could play, the fish they be arising, come with me and smell the hay, tis wondrous appetising’.”

They don’t write ’em like that any more, George.

■ Email your streaming favourites or golden oldies to siobhan. mcnally@mirror.co.uk