Is there a place for the travelling fun fair any more? Static attractions like Alton Towers and Thorpe Park have rides that are bigger, grander, more varied and scarier than anything a traditional, ...

The Mining Review consisted of dramas, documentaries, news features, even a crude animation glorifying a benign giant called King Coal. And there were training films. One film called The Shovel was, ...

Here's a lovely old granny in a pale-blue coat with her silver hair all curled and set. And here's that lovely old granny spitting nastiness about another woman. "She's a dirty great fat lump of lard, ...

Aided by zesty interviews with Christopher Lee, Tim Pigott-Smith, PD James and more, and pinned together by an outrageously fruity narration from Peter Wyngarde, what the film emphasised above all was ...

Timeshift presents a bank holiday celebration of the British seaside holiday experience from its Victorian origins and heyday in the 1950s to its slow decline and attempts at reinvention since. Show ...

Blue movie: still from John Noel's restored 'The Epic of Everest' It is no exaggeration to say that Noel was the progenitor of Himalayan exploration. In 1913 he blackened his face with boot polish, ...

All the Fun of the Fair traced the history of the travelling fair in its familiar form. What we now recognise as the fair, with rides, sideshows and snacks evolved in the 19th century. The programme ...