Lancashire Steel Corporation - Irlam Works

The drama and spectacle of steelmaking at Ebbw Vale.

A window on to a futuristic vision of concrete, glass and steel.

At Rotherham a revolution in steelmaking has human consequences.

Sparks fly in an industrial film that captures the exciting visual drama of steel production in Consett.

An industrial epic plays out in steelmaking South Wales.

After a glorious history, Baldwin's iron and steelworks in Swindon, Staffordshire, faces closure.

Watching the soaps in Salford, the "birthplace of a billion bubbles".

Hot metal innovations: putting research into practice in the foundry.

Manchester's link to the sea - a success story for British engineering and commerce.

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.