Women and Leisure

Flock to your local keep fit class - there's a war on and Britain needs its citizens in tip-top shape.

Women cyclists go for gold! Singer Gracie Fields presents the grand prize at South London's premier women's cycling event.

They breed them hard in Dudley - running non-stop for 24 hours is nothing to Ron Bentley: his next challenge is to race over 800 miles.

Want to learn to dance the Swedish Masquerade, Dutch Hakke Toone, or maybe the Italian Tarantella? Essex schoolchildren show us how it’s done.

Meet the president leading the haggis hurling revival and learn how delivering lunch became a sport for kilted gentlemen.

Rare home movie capturing sporting action in 1967 at Stoke Mandeville Stadium, birthplace of the Paralympics.

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

As the craze for playing cowboys and Indians ebbs, Waddingtons introduce a game for boys to re-enact the famous Sioux and Cheyenne victory.

Headlining with the expulsion of South Africa from the Olympics in 1970, the Yorkshire Post sells itself as much more than a local paper.

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

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

Youtha Joyce and Arthur Mullard re-enact their roles as a wife and husband, only this time as a more normal couple in an ad for the Yorkshire Post.

Lydia West (It’s A Sin) introduces debbie tucker green’s ethereal, warm and human debut feature.

The powerful, multifaceted spirt and energies of the revolutionary 1960s are channelled in dynamic, monochrome microcosm.

Susan Wokoma introduces Alice Lowe’s slasher comedy Prevenge, reflecting on Lowe’s journey making and starring in the film while pregnant, and her rich palette of classic influences.

The Bow Gamelan Ensemble stage spectacular avant-garde musical shows.

An elderly man takes a hypnotic journey through his memories in the moments before his death.

The supreme intent and personal biography of a Black Panther contrasts with the alienating propaganda of late-night television.