Every Valley

A flurry of activity at Wexford Railway Station as passengers alight an Edwardian steam train.

Bicton Woodland Railway reopens to passengers for the summer season

Railway services on the Golden Valley line in Herefordshire slip into history.

12 miles of magic as we journey on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, one of the Great Little Trains of Wales

The Stationmaster at York guides us through a typical day, from dawn to dusk.

Cinema star Donald Houston recalls his memories of railways and the romance of the Welsh landscape.

Jimmy Wade, a hard-working and dedicated surgeon whose hands saved many in the Valleys, retires in 1935 armed with silver candlesticks.

A rare glimpse into the leisure pursuits of ordinary people in pre-war Britain.

August shows in south Wales (Peterston-super-Ely, Pontypridd, Rumney, Aberdare and Whitchurch): horses, drays and the hammer and sickle.

Bedding, table lamps, coffee set, lighter, toaster … gifts that will set up Patricia Morgan and Kenneth Haynes for married life after their wedding at St Mary’s Church, Glyntaf.

Knockabout comedy that grabs attention through its setting of the Pwyllgwaun colliery near Pontypridd.

Drama involving collecting boxes after the new year’s day party held by the Pontypridd branch of The League of Pity (now NSPCC’s School’s Fundraising) in 1953 at the New Inn Hotel.

The director of a documentary about British funk pioneers Cymande joins the band at BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

Plotting world domination, Devil Doctor Fu-Manchu steals plans for a new aero-torpedo in this earliest surviving thrill-a-minute serial instalment.

Filmmakers Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss their documentary Scala!!!, revisiting the legendary and inspirational cinema venue and some of the most notorious films that screened there.

Long thought lost, this Powell-directed promotional short for a veteran’s charity was only rediscovered in 2003.

A poignant, stirring letter from a recently deceased pilot to his mother is read by John Gielgud.

Former Bristol Poet Laureate, Miles Chambers reads a poem specially commissioned for the 75th anniversary of the NHS.