Royal Norfolk Show , Sandringham 1950

Fakenham’s racecourse is almost square, left-handed and with a full racing distance of around a mile. The first race was held in 1905.

Dick Joice introduces this documentary charting the course and the history of the river starting at Horningtoft and finishing in Norwich.

Many a flock of curly-horned rams and golden-fleeced ewes, of various breeds and colour, at the last Hempton Sheep Fair, in September 1969.

Highlights from a day at Fakenham Races filmed circa 1948, after the resuming of the annual meeting here following a break during World War Two.

Ploughing and sowing, baling and hoeing. Norfolk farmers produce food for a nation at war, aided by the latest farm machinery, but not altogether replacing the horse or labourer.

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.