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Probably the first ever cricket film: Indian cricketing royalty prepares for the first test between England and Australia at Sydney.

Interview with International and Somerset cricketers Ian Botham and Viv Richards

Rain may stop play, but never the British sense of humour.

Sevenoaks Vine Cricket Club hosts a women's cricket match between the Kent XI and the touring Australian team.

Cricketing legend Mike Atherton joins BFI senior curator Steve Bryant on a tour through a century of cricket on film.

First-class big-hitters from the county team, including Rupert Webb, take on Horley in this exciting colour film from 1960’s Sussex

The looms of Lancashire: how the upheaval of the Industrial Revolution created the thriving textile industry.

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.