The Flood

Rural life in the Essex villages of Finchingfield and Great Bardfield - and the mixed reactions of older residents to changing times.

Orkney evoked through poetry, the sounds of nature, and the music of Peter Maxwell Davies.

Midsummer haymaking larks

The Stroud valleys of Gloucestershire in glorious Technicolor - and with a Laurie Lee script.

From shire horses to the Royal Marines, welcome to the annual Newark Show. A serious business for the farming community, with prizes to win and 800 gallons of beer to be drunk.

An extraordinary and unexpected snapshot of rural life in wartime in which a young black girl is crowned Queen of the May.

A mechanical grave digger is co-opted to help with the creation of a garden at Glan Ely High School, Cardiff.

Savour the beauty of Cambridgeshire, with its picturesque villages, wooded valleys, and monumental architecture

Figurative sculptor of the human form, Daphne Hardy Henrion’s solo exhibition at the Old Fire Engine House in Ely, Cambs. Anglia Television.

A train journey beginning at Ely with scenic views of the Cathedral City and passing through many of the smaller stations in rural East Anglia before arriving in Wymondham.

Fundraising services and events for Cambridgeshire British Red Cross and St John Ambulance volunteers, captured by filmmaker William King, in 1943.

A cine enthusiast’s extensive tour of East Anglia capturing a snapshot of each of the pretty villages and settlements, and of the larger towns or cities in each of the counties.

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.