Pex: No-Run Nylons

A cup of Horlicks helps a struggling husband bring home the bacon in this 1950s advert.

Limp-haired lover Betty rekindles romance with dashing Dick by swapping to Amami Shampoo and Wave Set in this 1930s advertising film.

Snow White wouldn’t look like Snow White without her special washing powder.

An ice cream a day keeps the wrinkles away…

Luscious hair solves a mysterious disappearance.

Stepford wife Nanette Newman becomes the face of mild green Fairy Liquid in this iconic advert.

Sheerness in never ladder nylons: the proud boast of Pex's Pin Pin nylons.

Bringing "sweet memories of Uganda" to the East Midlands.

The sari has been worn by Asian women for millennia and in 1976 it was about to become a staple of wardobes across the UK.

The UK's immigration laws have prevented Dara Singh from seeing his family for a decade. His is one of many sad stories...

He arrived in Britain with £3 and went on to become one of the richest business men in the Midlands. How did Amrat Parmar do it?

Samosas sit alongside sandwiches as India's Republic Day is celebrated in fine style in Leicester.

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.