Power behind the Spindle

Nellie Boote's laundry in Market Street in operation, the women dashing away with all manner of smoothing irons as clothes are sorted, mended, washed, ironed and sorted again.

A mile of yarn and a million loops to make one stocking: the culmination of a four hundred year old craft.

Fashion doesnt grow on treesor does it! Tyne Tees TV was bang on-trend with this brilliant news feature on the hip 1960s cult for a disposable age - paper fashion.

Twisted yarns and empty spindles, everything from Bouclé to Slub yarn, from beginning to end, and all, in the end, displayed on a ‘normal’ model in typical 1970s fashion.

Rag trade revival or sweatshops? In the back streets of Brick Lane, Bangladeshi machinists sew 70s fashions

Wearing Fur gets Hairy

Disabled people working in the community in Oldham.

"Britain's bread hangs by Lancashire's thread" – cotton, Britain's great post-war hope.

Forget the carding machine - you need a lap convertor. Puzzled? Find out more here.

See how steam powered the textile industry of Lancashire.

Not a politician in sight in this clever Conservative election campaign film.

A visually memorable film of staff exiting a turn-of-the-century Lancashire machine factory.

Laura Mulvey in conversation, following her BFI Fellowship Award.

George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.

The Oscar®- winning director of Nomadland discusses her unique approach to filmmaking and the inspiration behind the adaptation of Hamnet.

The director talks to Mark Kermode about putting Stephen King's dystopian life-or-death gameshow thriller through its paces. 

Richard Linklater discusses his remarkable and wide-ranging body of work, including Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague.

Daniel Day-Lewis, the ultimate actor’s actor discusses his career in conversation with Mark Kermode.