A wave of British sex comedies in the 1970s, with their blend of X-rated content and slapstick humour, transform the nation's cinema and the audience's attitude to sex forever.

Do I have your attention? They were all characters listed in Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy (Channel 4), by the actresses who played them. One, Prudence Drage, remembered the penny dropp ...

Director Simon Sheridan's exhaustive examination of British sexploitation movies, made during the 1960s and 1970s, when homegrown cinema was struggling to survive. The films' stars and makers ...

If a documentary called Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy ... Robin Askwith (“the most famous male bum in British cinema history” as he was described here) took the title role and ...

The programme also reveals how the advent of home video and an explosion of the availability of cheaply made pornography eventually brought the cinema sex industry crashing down, even as it approached ...

Makers of film and high-end TV spent almost A$10bn in the country last year, and British cinema has brought us films as diverse as First World War epic 1917 and science fiction two-hander Gravity ...