Peterborough Playbus

The turbulent life and death of championship boxer Randolph Turpin.

Bringing the tastes of Montego Bay to a wintry West Bromwich.

A stark reminder from Handsworth of the intolerance and hatred that darkened the streets of 1960s Britain.

The Gay Black Group - reasserting culture and identity on two levels.

A rare interview with Dr Martin Luther King casts fresh light on black British broadcast history.

Tiger Bay in Cardiff's docks area: a successful, multi-cultural community, providing a variety of activities, but which is threatened by 'slum' clearance.

With narration by Rodney Crouch, we see the latest equipment and typesetting processes that are needed to create one issue of a daily paper.

Peterborough's new live-in facility for learning-disabled patients offers woodwork and pottery as therapy.

Isolation can be a problem for South Asians, especially for women. A new cultural centre in Peterborough is hoping to change that.

What is the secret to a successful dyke-jump? Apparently it’s all in the push-off! This daft Fenland sport, looks like a whole lot of fun.

The children of Peterborough run rings around comedian Tommy Handley and other dignitaries during a city sports day.

One citizen's pictorial portrait of Peterborough - it's highlights and landmarks, documented in full colour for posterity.

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.