Wolverhampton into the Seventies

"The most exciting thing going on in Europe, if not the world": welcome to Milton Keynes circa 1973.

The colourful bustle of Portsmouth's oldest street market features in this 1977 film – where traders and shoppers mix under the brooding presence of the infamous Tricorn Centre.

Six Shropshire villages combine and the new town of Telford is born.

A fascinating film showing the cathedral city of Chichester before the arrival of its ringroad and the pedestrianisation of its Roman streets.

A rare glimpse of early Edwardian Manchester when the horse-drawn tram still reigned supreme.

This gem of a film shows pre-war Portsmouth and Southsea, in colour, before the Blitz and features its historic streets and buildings and holiday-makers on Southsea's beaches.

This map showcases a curated selection of audio stories and digitally animated 3D scans of the people and places in and around Wolverhampton.

A flight of fancy, and a story of creation seen with an animator's eye.

A big, bad, but very stylish, wolf meets his match in this model animation of a traditional fairy tale.

The UK's immigration laws have prevented Dara Singh from seeing his family for a decade. His is one of many sad stories...

Will the 'House of Cards' be the sanctuary that the elderly Asian men of Wolverhampton need?

World In Action visits Wolverhampton for a hard-hitting report on race and housing.

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.