West Indian Carnival

Autobiographical account of a mother-daughter relationship, exploring beauty standards and female sexuality.

A young black ballerina rejects prejudice and finds her African spirit in Swan Lake.

West London echoes to the sound of reggae and steel pans in this kaleidoscopic record of the 1980 Notting Hill Carnival.

The director of Academy Award-nominated Timbuktu talks about his personal connection to the true story of quite rebellion against religious extremism.

Meet the Abrews, a unique showbiz family whose imprint on British culture began in Scotland in the 19th century

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

There is never a dull moment in this International Spy Game of foreign spies competing to trick their way into sixteen different embassies.

An Olympic Games hopeful bundles into a Leeds newsagents, only to be met by a new shopkeeper from The Smoke, bemused by the Yorkshire Post.

Tuning into the biggest consumer market for television advertising in Britain with Trident TV.

The great Western way of dog eat dog as opponents try to dynamite each other in their pursuit of what really matters in life, railways and money.

Butter, eggs, and lemons, what else could better evoke the healthiness of the countryside than this delicious traditional desert topping?

With the subatomic world getting ever smaller, Waddingtons recognised that a microscope was just what was needed “for the man of the future.”

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.