Newtown Carnival - Saturday, June 24th, 1950

The world and his wife have come to Newtown to celebrate the culture of Welsh-speaking Wales and Brynsiencyn GP, Dr John Glyn Jones, is on hand to capture the buzz on camera.

Harpists take up position in The Elephant and Castle Hotel, Newtown, where a reception will take place in honour of the Duke who is visiting local participants in his award scheme.

Take a trip to Newtown and view this market town as it was in 1963. See the statue of Robert Owen, the market, the bridges crossing the River Severn and the steam train.

In 1960, Newtown found itself under attack by the elements as the River Severn bursts its banks and flooded the town, submerging houses, vehicles and trees.

Combine paper and ink, science and skill, craft and understanding and you produce, according to Geoff Charles, the film-maker, “one of to-day's miracles” - a weekly newspaper.

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.